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MARIO J. TORRES
UNITY
Sometimes it can be heard that
people have the leader they deserve and in the case of Cuba this seems
partly fulfilled for different reasons. Within the very island, without
referring to cowardice or lack of courage to face the dictatorship due to
its tight steel repression, there exists a tendency of "becoming
comfortable", an unnecessary double moral and an excessive humility before
the dictator's chains, who knows if as the result of a mechanism of defense
or adaptation, but anyhow the need to survive does not justify this excess
and very often Cuban people may be thought of as non-patriotic or
politically light-headed with little honor.
Leaders from the island's internal opposition suffer the consequences of a
syndrome of distrust, mostly imposed by the very system and from the disease
of not being prophets in their own land and never being reliable but all
these kinds of evil are more strongly present and are observed with greater
shades in exile. At the southeast of Florida, if Castro collapsed tomorrow,
there would be many left without a job since just as Castro uses his enemy's
currency to survive, right here many people are living on him and on the
essence of his system.
Divisionism, on the other hand, has become a directly transmitted gene from
General Vicente Garcia from the times of Spain and we, as good heirs, have
thoroughly assimilated it and have crowned it with jealousy, envy,
ambitions, antagonism, disagreement, lack of "team work", display of
individual talents, creation of isolated groups opposing others, criticism
to the neighbor's effort; "virtues" which are the Cuban Pharoah's joy and
make up constant headlines of the political and social life of this special
Cuban West Berlin.
It is very common to witness "matches" between those of Ninosca and the
Cuban American Foundation, Joe Garcia against Diaz-Balart and to make
matters even worse, inside the very island the controversy between Menoyo
and Paya and this kind of atmosphere, far from helping obtain the freedom of
Cuba, indirectly turns these people, all eager of the same objective, in
involuntary allies of the Caribbean concentration camp.
Nobody believes in anybody and all think they have the absolute truth, but
if they have read History, they must know that peoples around the world have
always had a unique leader without exception of era or country at the time
of fighting such battles in spite of democracy and of opinion differences
since liberty is first and this main goal becomes a priority, which is
preserved with the UNION of all those interested, which is the only key that
can lead to victory.
To make this case sadder, support from North American administrations has
been erratic and this factor together with all the previously exposed make
these 45 years understandable and that the island may still deserve its
leader.
MARIO J TORRES
MAY 2004
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