There are people who have never stopped blaming the United States for the failures and mistakes of Cuban totalitarianism
14ymedio, Pedro Corzo, Miami, 29 December 2024 — It is not new that US politicians and officials believe that they are responsible for all the evils suffered by others, as can be seen in a recent letter that former diplomats and National Security officials addressed to President Joe Biden and his vice president Kamala Harris, in relation to Cuba.
The United States has its own “sin-eaters“: people who, through ritual meals, free individuals who have recently died or are close to death from their sins. Perhaps the most conspicuous of these is President Barack Obama, who re-established relations with Cuba without demanding changes on the Island.
In my opinion, the letter should have been addressed to the dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel, since they recognize that it is the Government of Cuba itself that has created “insufficient and incoherent political reforms that have largely caused this crisis.” However, the sin-eater aspect of the letter appears when they claim that “the current policy of the United States has exacerbated the difficulties of Cubans.”
There are people who have never stopped blaming the United States for the failures and mistakes of Cuban totalitarianism, stating that the embargo and US policies forced Fidel Castro to be hostile to this country. They ignore that the Cuban system has concluded 66 years with political prisoners and a people immersed in misery for the failed policies of the regime, and not for real or alleged foreign aggressions.
I remember reading the opinions of compatriots who blamed the US for having led Castro to ally with the Soviet Union
Even more, I remember reading the opinions of compatriots who blamed the US for having led Fidel Castro to ally with the Soviet Union. They ignore that on June 5, 1958, he wrote to Celia Sánchez: “When I saw the rockets they threw at Mario’s house, I have sworn to myself that the Americans will pay dearly for what they are doing. When this war is over, a much longer and bigger war will begin for me: the war I’m going to wage against them. I realize that this is going to be my true destiny. Fidel.”
The petition also requests that Cuba be removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, ignoring that the Cuban government, for more than six and a half decades, has systematically supported the violent groups that have tried to destroy democracies in their own countries.
Finally, they very discreetly ask that the White House be the savior of tyranny by increasing humanitarian aid and simplifying the rules for Cuban citizens to access the US financial system.
They are well informed about the critical situation of Cubans, but apparently they prefer to ignore who is responsible for the situation they describe by saying: “The country’s energy network is failing, child malnutrition is increasing, basic services are deteriorating, and most Cubans have lost hope, precipitating the largest exodus of migrants from Cuba in its history.”
Many of those who signed this document are former officials of the government of Barack Obama
Many of those who signed this document are former officials of the government of Barack Obama, such as former ambassador to Cuba Jeffrey DeLaurentis, who denies that the Obama-era thaw has been a failure, without presenting evidence of its success. Vice President Harris said in 2020 that the embargo policy only helps supporters of confrontation, ignoring that the ones who have promoted confrontation are the rulers of Cuba, from the Castro brothers to the hand-picked dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel.
I ask those who signed, do not play into the game of the enemies of democracy. A license that allows United States citizens to invest in Cuban companies will not change the situation of Cubans for the better. Spaniards and Canadians have made large investments in Cuba without the Island prospering. Finally, the Cuban state under Castro’s totalitarianism was failing long before some of you voted for Barack Obama or Joe Biden.
Translated by Regina Anavy
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