Miami/The falsification of history has been the cornerstone of the perpetuation of the communist regime on the Island, and the Institute of Cuban Historical Memory against Totalitarianism dedicated to dismantling it its first Congressthis Saturday, in Hialeah, Florida.
In conversation with 14 intervene, The president of the Institute, Pedro Corzo, justified the relevance of the meeting “within the framework of the 65 years of the totalitarian regime imposed by the dictatorship” and for “the need to compile a compendium of the legacy of these sinister decades and their consequences.” for the nation.”
“Castroism has set back the development of our country and, worst of all, we have lost the sense of nation,” says the journalist, also a contributor to this newspaper. “Many Cubans no longer feel like such, they embrace any nationality and say they will never return to Cuba again.”
Along with this, he acknowledges, there are many others “who feel committed to the fight for democracy and the freedom of the country,” but they are in prison. “In Cuba there are, right now, more than 1,000 people in jail for demanding rights and freedoms for the Island, the vast majority are young people, Cubans who were born under that regime.”
Cuba today has two economic systems: one centralized, “administered by inept bureaucrats and the other of a mafia-capitalist type.”
At the different tables of the congress, divided into two sessions and a long day of more than eight hours, the speakers analyzed historical manipulation, the economy, the role of the Armed Forces, health management, education, the cultural issue , the state of human rights, religious persecution, crimes, impunity, devastation and deaths generated by the regime. They talked about youth, national identity, the fight against Castroism and the Cuban resistance in exile.
Johnny López de la Cruz, a colonel in the United States and former member of the Cuban Army, said, for example, that Cuba today has two economic systems: one centralized, “managed by inept bureaucrats and the other of a mafia-capitalist type.” The military officer also asserted that the Island “is a failed State” where “the communist and criminal regime has managed to destroy the country and continues to cling to retain power in any way, even when it is weaker than ever.”
The speakers also addressed the effects of totalitarianism in the destruction of the family and the social fabric, the establishment of denunciation as a system of values, failed projects and their devastating consequences, when talking about the UMAP, the new man and the schools in the countryside or the different experiments resulting from Fidel Castro’s megalomania.
Language academic Eduardo Lolo, for his part, outlined Castro’s manipulation of the figure of José Martí. “As Fidel Castro could not eliminate history and memory, he rewrote and falsified it, using a rigged interpretation of Martí’s ideology, creating a ‘Fidelista Martí’ where Martí is a precursor of Castro, a historical apostasy.”
Another of the conferences, that of businessman and economist Manuel Milanés, revolved around the “disaster of the Cuban economy.” Thus, he recalled how before the triumph of the Revolution, the Island was “a prosperous republic, but absurd ideas have led it to disaster.” Today, he stressed, the country has “165 times more deficit than in 1959, it has no credit capacity because it does not generate confidence, because it does not pay its debts, even when it has received facilities and debt forgiveness.”
Milanés cited several examples that show the failure and economic debacle, such as that 88% of the Cuban population today lives in extreme poverty, or that sugar production in 1903 was greater than sugar production in 2023. The reality economic situation of the United States and Cuba, in short, shows the contrast between a system with freedoms and respect for private property and a communist totalitarian system.
At the end of the meeting and as a balance, Corzo told 14 intervene that “totalitarianism has meant a tragedy for Cuba at all levels,” and announced that the next event of the Institute will be dedicated to analyzing what Castroism has meant for Latin America and the United States “in terms of subversion, espionage and terrorism.” .
