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Articles
Our struggle has not ended.
By Ernesto Díaz Rodríguez
Secretary General of Alpha-66
In just a few days, we will unfortunately commemorate the 46th
anniversary of Fidel Castro’s arrival to power. The experiment of that
diabolic creature, which the leader of the Sierra Maestra baptized with
the name of "Revolution", it has cost to the Cuban nation a greater
suffering than not other Latin America country has ever been forced to
endure. From the fatidic date of January 1, 1959, the amount of
political prisoners who have left the best of their lives in the jails
and concentration camps, simply by its love to freedom, are really
impressive. Tens of thousands of honest Cubans, that did not commit any
other crime than to want a free, prosperous and happy Cuba, were
assassinated with viciousness and cowardice in the firing walls. Other
tens of thousands were forced to throw themselves, in a desperate
exodus, to the stormy waters of the Straits of Florida. Some survived.
Miraculously, they survived to describe their experience, to narrate
their own agonies. Others, in much greater proportion, were diluted
between the salt of a frustrated hope, the stirred up waves of the ocean
and the famished crops of the sharks. And we are still rolling down the
hill. Still, the merry-go-round of the Castro revolution continues to
turn, destroying everything, and we haven’t been able to find an
effective formula to stop it. But we must find it! We, those we want a
solution without giving up and without shameful agreements with the
enemy, must join all the forces, because freedom cannot be conquered on
our knees but with the edge of the machete, with the incendiary tea of
Máximo Gómez. We must fight; with the fists and the nails, with the
teeth if that were necessary to be able to bury all the miseries that
have been imposed on us. We must fight with the powerful weapons of
honor and reason. To bury the agonies and the hopelessness in a deep,
well deep grave, next to the mud, and the stench and the dung that
compose the matter of the tyrant who leads that brutal and devastating
experiment.
Almost 46 years have passed since they wove our blood with chains. Since
they erased the sun of freedom from us and tied with bolts our
illusions. Many were satisfied with just surviving, and accepted with
resignation the humiliating formulas of the thoughtless observance of
the capricious will of a tyrant, thinking perhaps that in facing an
official policy of traps and lies, any method of survival was valid.
Others, in a significantly inferior proportion but with a much more
refined sense of the responsibility imposed to us by that moment,
understood that more important that the preservation of the material
values, more important inclusively than our own lives, is not to let
ourselves to annihilate spiritually, because the destruction of the
spirit makes us weak and affects our human condition. It puts at risk,
in addition, the preservation of our dignity. Those valuable human
beings, who represent the moral reserves of the Mother country,
understood the message of José Martí when he said: “A man who is
satisfied obeying unjust laws, and allows the men that mistreat that
land in which he was born to step on it, is not an honest man.”
And they offered their lives in a heroic sacrifice or integrated the
honorable legions of the Political Military prisons of Cuba. Others,
that were forced to leave the country, have fought without truce from
trenches of exile, without letting themselves dazzle by the lent freedom
and the personal benefits that this great nation offers us.Our fight has
not ended. This must be an overall conscience for Cubans, inside and
outside the Island as we aspire to a system of government capable of
providing us the enjoyment of each of the guarantees established in the
Universal Letter of the Human Rights. A government where the
reestablishment of the spiritual wounds, the respect to the democratic
institutions and the happiness of the Cuban family are the angular
stones of our new nation.
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