arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

Outstanding social scientists affirm that a full analysis of a concrete
reality must take into account the particularities and antecedents of the
case. That is the only correct way to judge and arrive at the most
objective and exact conclusion possible.
It seems, however, that even among persons not at all ill-intentioned,
these precepts are overlooked when dealing with the subject of Cuba.
I say this in view of the commotion created abroad by the decision of the
Island's authorities to arrest and try, with all the guarantees established
by the nation's laws, some 70 individuals for confirmed unpatriotic
activities who were fully engaged in the execution of subversive plans that
the government of the United States encourages against this country.
These are not militant affirmations à outrance, but flagrant realities duly
substantiated before public opinion. In the presence of hundreds of local
and foreign journalists in Havana, entire collections of documents, graphs
and testimonials, more than authorized, probative, verify that the
so-called internal dissidence is the net product of the unfailing eagerness
of Washington to destroy the Cuban Revolution.
From official U.S. sources and through its Interests Section in Havana,
money, materials and instructions flowed to these groups, that were
artificially formed to operate as a fifth column to produce the change
longed for by the most reactionary groups in the northern world power.
Those who show mournful faces at the Cuban judiciary action against such
attempts should, in the first place, inform themselves about these truths,
which have been made public. Then, in the name of the anti-dogmatism that
they have proclaimed to defend, they should judge and accept, without
prejudice or preconceived ideas, such clinching arguments about persons
whose actions fit perfectly into the most blatant category of mercenaries..
They talk about repressed intellectuals, silenced journalists and a
truncated civil society, ignoring, a priori, that those groups are nothing
more than nests of opportunists and climbers, very far from really
creative, serious and honest citizens.
For those who worry and show alarm, certain historical precisions are valid.
As a local colleague has pointed out, Cuba and its people, from their first
attempts at independence, have had to survive opposite neighboring coasts
that have not been friendly, colorful or even neutral. On the contrary,
Cuba has had to do it in the midst of threats, interventions, aggressions
and permanent attempts from its powerful neighbor to curtail its national
prerogatives.
More than four decades of economic war, terrorism, invasions, death and
mutilations should seem sufficient to understand that this Island cannot
afford the luxury of tolerance and passivity vis-a-vis those who support
and work to perpetuate this state of affairs.
The least that the daily victims of this deeply rooted hostility can demand
is that their sufferings and their dogged resistance not be ignored when
assessing an act of legitimate defense.
Those who live with the edge of a knife pressed against their throat are
fully justified in retorting to preserve their existence. So persons who
misinterpret this reality are definitely wrong, and even become accomplices
of these crimes when, deliberately or not, they overlook truths as imposing
as temples.