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Posted: September 9, 2010 04:14 PM
Fidel Castro Joins the Opposition
If my memory doesn't fail me, they expelled many Communist Party members
for lesser or similar phrases, and purged innumerable Cubans who served
long sentences. The Maximum Leader systematically pointed his finger at
those who tried to explain that the country wasn't working. And not only
were the nonconformists punished, but we were all forced to don the mask
of subterfuge to survive on an island he tried to remake in his own
image. Pretense, whispers, deceit, all to hide the same opinion that the
"resuscitated" commander now flippantly tosses out to foreign journalist.
Perhaps it is a fit of honesty, as assaults the elderly when it comes
time to assess their lives. It could even be another desperate try for
attention, like his prediction of an imminent nuclear debacle or his
late mea culpa for the repression of homosexuals which he came out with
a few weeks ago. To see him acknowledge the failure of "his" political
model, makes me feel like I'm watching a scene where an actor
gesticulates and raises his voice so that the public won't look away.
But as long as Fidel Castro doesn't take the microphone and announce to
us that his obsolete creature will be dismantled, nothing has happened.
If he doesn't repeat the phrase here in Cuba, and, in addition, agree
not to interfere in the necessary changes, we're back to square one.
Note:
Yesterday, on hearing the news, I wrote a brief tweet: "Fidel Castro
joins the opposition, telling the journalist Jeffrey Goldberg that the
Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore." Shortly after a dissident
friend to whom I'd sent the same message by text called me. His words
were ironic, but true: "If He has joined the opposition, I'm moving over
now to the official side."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yoani-sanchez/fidel-castro-joins-the-op_b_711071.html
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