The cupola of the power in Cuba shakes

Victor E. Sanchez
victorernestosanchez@ymail.com

SANTIAGO OF CUBA - March 04, the 2009 (www.aplopess.com) country is under political storm alert, therefore it is possible to be appreciated by the nervousness that shows the punitive forces and of intelligence, the civil servants of the government and the representatives of the political organizations and masses, even at local level.

The defenestración of Carlos Lage Davila has shaken the structures of the power, was something that took from surprise to everybody.  Carlos Lage was reelected like Vice-president of the Council of State unanimously and was one of the deputies whom major obtained popular vote in the past pro-government elections of the past year.

Carlos Lage Davila always was considered like a possible candidate to initiate a process of reforms in Cuba. The fact of to have been born in 1951 releases of all responsibility with the judicial events and the extrajudicial procedures to it of the principle of the Revolution.

The life of the Cuban politicians is very little well-known and to the population it is very difficult to him to control his austerity, but there is a general perception in which Cuba that Lage is a very modest man, comments that always it lived in a small apartment and that had moskovich like automobile. Although that situation could at some time have changed, that is the image that the population has formed of him, reason took that it to receive the prize of the most popular candidate in the last elections for deputy to the National Assembly.

The population has reacted like was logical to hope, and a solidarity feeling is being let feel, at least in favor of Carlos Lage. In different points from the environs of the city of Santiago of Cuba they have appeared posters, with the slogan: “Lage President�. The greatest posters were located in the highway of the Refinaria, Hnos. Diaz and close the Fca. of Cement Jose Mercerón, in the Rpto. Altamira. Also posters related to the case Lage in the Chicharrones distributions, 30 of November and Rajayoga appeared.

Before this popular support, that the evidences grant to him to Carlos Lage, young people of santiagueros political movements are suggesting to take all a national and international campaign ahead to promote their figure to the front of a reformist movement in Cuba, that of beginning to a transition towards the democracy.