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National jail of Sweet potato. Santiago of Cuba. Monday 6 -12 - 2004
EDITORIAL: MY OPINION AFTER THE GRATES - MY COMMENTARY OF HOY-TRATADO ON THE POLITICAL OPPOSITION IN CUBA.
To see original By. Fco. H. Diaz Echemendía.
Political prisoner.
Many men and women of the Mother country have been and are staunch political opponents of the government of I castrate in Cuba, for that reason everyone to extremely long and laborious sentences in the most inhospitable jails of the country have been jailed in multiple occasions, suffering all cruel and degrading type of deprivations, oppression, treatments, physical and psychic tortures, wild golpizas, infamaciones of all nature, repression and the suppression of all right, in the matter of human rights. But despite a it, throughout these almost five decades of fight after the freedom of Cuba has maintained generally one attitude based on firm principles and in the value of it brings back to consciousness, but also of great realism on the forces and interests in game.
This political opposition in Cuba comprises of an ample movement of demands in favor of the civil and democratic rights. a movement that goes to cause that our society is democratic, frees and independent and with right equals for all the Cubans without concerning their affiliation or nonreligious, political or of another nature, or its race and sex, its condition would finance and/or cultural.
In Cuba de Castro the operation of the political opposition is extremely difficult, because an intermediate space between the open opposition (ilegalizada) and the totalitarian institutions of coercion does not exist of way some. This does that many people truly terrified by the police State do not dare nor to express nonconformity some against any stupidity or political aberration of the government, but in spite of it I consider that it would be very detrimental for the opposition if the groups that in Cuba fight by a change separated partisan or totally of the passive population. This would mean a disaster and the death for the political opposition. The successes of the opposition and their own anti-Castro existence are possible because those that decide to take the most serious risks, do not only separate through insurmountable barriers of those who can help them of active way, only of time in time, or of the people that pass to others newspapers and publications without censorship (illegal in Cuba) they have read after it, or still of which they are arranged to make monetary or logistic contributions, or of which cautiously and calladamente they are its supporters (our supporters). It is more, we could say than also of those Cubans still they can through the truth be turned. If, it is certain that often its extreme caution and sometimes cowardice or coward reserves irritates us to which we risked everything. Nevertheless, it is better than the things are thus to that there was a wall that separated the active position of those latent social energies that sooner or later will be able to be freed like it happened with us a day, the day that we decided that he was better to die in an attempt to conquer the freedom, the respect, the honor and the honor, that to live in chains and opprobrium sunk.
Many anti-Castro opponents of Cuba of I exile and still governments of free and democratic societies have called to the government to the dialog with the opposition, more everything have been empty words for the old dictator of Cuba, I personally believe that it never will be possible in Cuba while the government car is not educated and he is decided to respect the Declaration of the Human rights of the UN. I castrate must much learn (and it does not want to learn), before understanding that a dialog with the Cuban society does not include political executions, political disappearances, massive imprisonments, macanas includes brandishing either clubs neither nor a monolog in the screens of the Cuban television or fomenting the division and hatred through the state flat press, and the speeches in the Places.
The governments who lack credibility as he is it the one of Cuba, are constantly dedicated to try to gain credibility to any possible cost, but the Castro government must know that such credibility will not be gained with calls to the work and to the reason, through congresses of the UNJC (Union of Communist Young people), the PCC (Started off communist of Cuba), the CTC (Central of Workers of Cuba), through “manipulativas Round Tables” of the truth and brings back to consciousness, Open Tribunes or diverse media campaigns the twenty-four hours to the day; but with a demonstration of genuine respect by the public aspirations and a total and unconditional respect to the human rights in Cuba. These public aspirations elementary, realistic and are justified. That is first criterion for a government who wants to as much obtain credibility of the national public opinion like international. That is the first criterion for a dialog that allows to obtain credibility, a second is the truth. “People, the town have right to all the truth on the nation, on they themselves and its condition, then we only can speak of realism and of moderation, she cannot have realism without the truth on the reality”.
From the same year 1959 the Political Police following instructions of I castrate began to promote in Cuba the cult to the personality of Fidel Castro, it was dedicated to create a culture around the “Prince” of Cuba and the reverential respect to Fidel Castro almost had and has an obligatory character in Cuba and the present generation is servant in the middle of the mediatic propaganda that “all the good one” of Cuba comes from I castrate and all bad from “imperialism yanky”, by such cause many people completely have all their faith and hope in head of the oligarchy in Cuba Fidel Castro, but the actions undertaken by the opposition in these years of fight, it has taught to all the Cubans that it can have and is other bases of hope for the town in the programs promoted by the opposition in Cuba and work outside the censorship to design alternative democratic programs to the castrismo in the middle of the fight by the freedom of Cuba and with the amplest aim to reconstruct to the Cuban society on the basis of the Universal Declaration of the Human rights and to recover social life outside the institutions of the State.
Often Cuban tend we them to separate our deprived life of the policy, but we do not recognize that at least in Cuba, the life is a political problem, she means that the life deprived of the Cuban is sign of all their action, even of its public life, because is the same man; in so problematic driving of the opposition in Cuba is inserted that with their small actions, apparently intrascendentes, but that is giving credibility to the opposition as they are constructing a social network, giving credibility to the action of the individual and the group and mines the state omnipresence of the castrismo in Cuba. With ours to drive personnel to and group each of us we can contribute to create present the best one for Cuba, through the personal actions with social repercussion. Everything what becomes against the castrismo helps to create a better future in Cuba.
Cuba and its town are sunk in a great dictatorship, totalitarian tyranny with laque have taken to the town a conflicting relation, the relation of the weak one with strong him, of the opresor with the pressed one, del that it looks for to conserve his tradition with which it imposes his concerned height of old Russia Estalinista. Against this reality, through Cuban history there have been some who undertook a fight in which all the originating one of the castrismo was bad, and other that however they saw the alliance with the tyrant one like the unique solution, and another who hoped of the world-wide changes in the matter of geopolitics like the unique exit. Many are these Cubans have been dedicated to try to look for common points between the dictatorship, the elites direct that it and that look for the freedom of Cuba.
That they look for the total rupture with the dictatorship I think with all honesty that under the present geopolitical conditions the search of the freedom and the democracy are realistic. I believe that we can organize our democracy and freedom from the interior and which through an efficient organization but and of one more a society more prosperous than enriches to the Americas and the rest of the world with new values and that favors the tolerance, the humanism and the cult to the human rights and the dignity of the man, we will move towards the freedom and the democracy in Cuba. But acceptance nor never I will accept participating in a species of contest to see that has greater desire by the freedom and democracy in our Mother country or creating the illusion than so far it has been made impossible has become possible.
Some leaders of the opposition to the castrismo nowadays have arisen from the rows of the left in Cuba, this leftist tradition nevertheless did not prevent them to gather before in the history of Cuba and after the castrismo the lessons necessary his to drive present, still trained in I castrate-estalinismo knew to analyze the content and reasons of the political concepts of Cuban of tendency the national-democrats who had tendencies opposed to the radical left in Cuba, learned of the castrismo that the castrismo is not the solution for an Independent and Democratic Cuba. These leaders strongly have been attacked by the Castro mediatic propaganda as a infamar them, to reduce credibility to them and to make appear them like “mercenary” to the service of a foreign power etc. but Cuban we must be able to discover the values that are underneath the ample layers of insults, resentments and lies to them of which have been objects these great ones and valiant men and women of the Mother country deserve all our respect, consideration and understanding; names like Vladimiro come to the mind Rock, Elizardo Sanchez Santa Cruz, Indamiro Restano, Chepe, Luis Alberto Pita Holy, and others more of socialist formation or left. There are other many that also deserve the same consideration and respect of all our town, and come to the mind men and women such as Oswaldo Payas Sardines, the brothers Gustavo and Sebastián Bergnes Arcs (one of them already passed away), Mr. Mario Chanes de Armas, just the deceased Andres Nazario Sargent leader of the patriotic NGO Alpha 66, Maritza Lugo, Eusebio Peñalver, Ernesto Diaz, Angel De Fana; I also want to mention to Bertha Antúnez Pernet in Clear Placetas- Villa, Lydia Beyries Go'mez in the city of Santiago of Cuba, Hubert Matos of the CID in I exile, Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyo, also in I exile etc. Are many plus they come which me to the mind, but is not my intention filling this writing of glorious names and worthy, it is not necessary, my heart is full of all of them and the history of Cuba also.
The policy of action of all these heroes of the mother country denotes a revolutionary-democratic policy, they comprise of the true revolutionaries of Cuba and not those that have been appropriated so denomination to press to everything a town. They jointly with all the political opposition in Cuba cry out by the car reform of the society in Cuba, something that comes from within from the society and it does not matter as already car occurred in Cuba as of the same year 1960.Esta organization of the Cuban society includes the respect of the norms and demands of the nation of independent way of the penal code that exists in agreement with desires of the dominant power. He means and he includes satisfying a maximum with national needs in economic, political and the social thing, material and spiritual needs of the Cuban population in spite of the institutions and ties imposed by the dictatorship. He means the positive creation and the operation of an independent public life in which the national ambitions and economic and social projects are discussed, formulated and socially accepted democratically. We must work all together ones by the creation in Cuba of independent structures that direct the rate of life of the nation; I believe that this he could be one of the so many ways towards the freedom and democracy in Cuba. There are other ways and still better! But he comes now me to the mind this that does not include bloodshed nor extra sufferings for the Cuban town.
He has known of opponents coming from the left and today they are the reformists of left center, these in the deal with the dominant power in Cuba want to have real subject, XX everything organized, but ilusamente they do not reject any idea or thought of temporary commitment with the enemy of the town the Castro regime. They think that the solution of the problems in Cuba is in the hands of some “honest representatives” of the town and is one that idiot has expressed that only I castrate or the cupola of the dictatorship is enabled to take or to head a possible transition in Cuba,/that by such words apologizes to him to the Cuban town; also there are other autonombrados leaders of the field of the conciliation who all along agree to enter agreements with the dominant power of the dictatorship, that these men car analyze their rules! Then that is not the best way to walk in pos. of the freedom of Cuba, these only look for to be placed in a “political field” and not in a political party of which they create in a particular doctrine, it is why never there are this “whole or nothing” but rather, in each situation indicate the accessible activities to all citizen, activities that could improve the situation of the nation. But there is who we want everything or nothing or everything to it or all freedom or death or democracy or death, the freedom and we want it to the democracy completes by halves and not shared or. In the year 1959 us to they gave by halves and everything was in a disastrous totalitarian absolute dictatorship and, for Cuba, all the good one, for the town all the good one, not them things by halves.
I have observed with pleasure that in front of my eyes new originating values have emerged from the old popular silence, I have seen the turbulent transformation of the public opinion that before was silent frightened the excesses of the dictatorship, people these customary ones to the philosophy of “déjame only”, we are going to see that it happens or I do not want problems, without noticing itself that the unique problem of Cuba is the Castro dictatorship, cheers to me that these things are happening in Cuba, the town either began to lose the fear and I castrate will have to invent some type of new terror to intimidate the town and to silence the more and more open opinions, or all we know and we have learned or the history of those who is our adversaries, the adversaries of the Cuban town, the dictatorship castrate-Communist or of Estalinista model in Cuba.
I have read and learned of the Bible that is not due to swear, and to only say if when is if and not when it is no, but as the Communists are antichrist makes contingency not covered by law to this and it has given them in recent years of the castrismo in Cuba to swear by everything: they swear by the Mother country, they swear by the socialism, they swear by the fallen heroes, they swear by the revolution, etc. Now are swearing by the Handle town of Baraguá, in the municipality Julio Antonio it notches of the Santiago province of Cuba and they have called to him to the oath: the oath of Baraguá; ah! One also forgot to me have sworn by Fidel the dictator of the Cuban town. In the oath of Baraguá, they have in writing wanted to try to jeopardize in writing to all the Cuban possible ones to jeopardize them to give the life by the socialism by the revolution and Fidel, not by the Mother country, if not by Fidel Castro. Nevertheless hundreds of thousands of Cuban, tens of hundreds of thousands abiertamente refuse to sign the declaration of loyalty to I castrate and to its opresora dictatorship, they are the Cubans that has heard and known on the hope, and by such cause we are fighting this great battle against the dictatorship, the Police State with the Secret Political Police to the front wants to force the town to give declarations of which the Cubans we are leaving the hope.
They know that a person who promises to loyalty to this regime of opprobrium and coercion, of despotism and lie, is resigning to a free and democratic Cuba, in which the lie and the coercion will be rejected by all the Cuban worthy ones. Also we here within the jails when denying to us to dishonest commitments with the police, when denying to us to collaborate, when rejecting the informant paper (informer-informer), and when choosing to be a political prisoner and of bring back to consciousness worthy and honest. Also we are defending the hope. Not only the hope within us and for we ourself, but also in the others and for the others and for the others! “We will be sending our declaration of hope from our cells towards Cuba and the entire world, like a closed bottle, sent to the sea. Whereupon a single it finds it person, we will have gained the victory”
For us the political opponents of the castrismo in Cuba, our dignity and the dignity of the person are our firm base for the action, because we must fight to defend the dignity of all, but also because it is the final weapon that we have by hand, is the one that gives firmness to support it everything us, by our own dignity.
In Cuba, the dignity of the man is pisoteada coarsely every day in all the acts of the regime with respect to the Cuban town, acts all of them directed to obtain by all possible means the submission from the town to the Castro despotizo-authoritarian regime. The carried out atrocities against the town and the dignity of the Cuban have been justified with explanations cowards and opportunists, searched carefully explanations: “that was for the security and the well-being of our children and all the Cuban town”. But soon he is that our children better wanted to have parents who were less protective and conformistas, and more decent and worthy. In this sad time for Cuba, time of media lies, oppression without limits and coercion, we must preserve our dignity! We have received our dignity like a great treasure coming from our parents. We transmit it to our children the Cubans of today, like a moral force more against the castrismo.
By our dignity and future, “we must save our own autoorganización, like political opposition, our independent union structures, our newspapers and publications without censorships, our codes morals not-written, our free and independent journalism; our honor and honor. “We must save the course of our civic life that is independent of the Castro government. In as much we have car organization, we will have car knowledge and the soul of a free nation, although we are captive, as much inside as outside the jails in Cuba”.
This policy that we took to the soul of the Cuban town requires of us determination and patience, value and égida ability for the commitment, a serious political analysis and flexible tactics to force the internal changes that the Mother country needs for the good all the Cubans. “A policy of political activism means realistic evaluation of the own place in the world and moment in we lived in Cuba.
It means to stay obstinate firmly to our realities of life and to reject the idealistic illusions. It means the availability to reluchar, without worrying about one same one, the right to the sovereign existence of the own national community”.
I write to them for all the Cuban town, from the National Jail of Sweet potato. Francisco Herodes Diaz Echemendía, political prisoner and of brings back to consciousness Cuban.
God-Mother country and Libertad.
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