The Dislike of some Cubans with Donald Trump
In Havana there are people very alarmed by the real possibility that Donald Trump will once again be president of the United States. The matter, at the very least, disconcerts me, adding suspicions of affiliation with the thick-collared bureaucrats who govern in the Plaza de la Revolución. These people causa shame.
But I cannot sit quietly and enjoy Milei's great oratory goal from Washington, finishing off the summit of the Conservative Action Political Conference, CPAC, after the masterful assistance that Bukele gave him yesterday, in the best Messi style, If there was the miracle of seeing them together at the same soccer game in front of the door.
We are talking about two presidents at the forefront of political thought on the planet, plus one whose presence floats in the air to the point that it is unnecessary to highlight his name.
I never forget the eve of the elections in the United States-2020- the global expectation of a close race like never before seen between Democrats and Republicans
In the Plaza where Fidel Castro made and unmade, until he left a country in ruins and died without giving a damn about the fate of the living, the small testicles of the president handed over by Raúl Castro, Mr. Díaz-Canel, did not let him breathe, stuck in his throat, just thinking about the redhead's possible re-election.
The relief was felt more than 90 miles away, it was the breath of someone who barely gets up from the canvas, when he learned that Biden's good-natured grandfather had won.
The photo that accompanies this brief chronicle was taken by the writer that morning of a libertarian caravan in Miami, on Eighth Street, with the Brickel City Center in the background.
It was the summary of what Donald Trump meant to dictators, especially to the man in Havana. The crazy one, the rude one, the cheater, "The unpredictable one" as the dictator of dictators Putin recently labeled him. Mr. Trump had reached the unthinkable limit of fighting with the European Union to support the Cubans, signing the unimaginable, Chapter III of the Helms-Burton, an initiative for democracy in Cuba, a law that detains American presidents, regardless of their personal intentions, preventing them from going too far to get close to Castro and his heirs.
The law saved from death the little that survived of the opposition to Castroism on the Island when Obama, years before, was willing to give everything to go down in history, no matter what, in exchange for what the Castro brothers asked of him.
Not even Cowboy Bush, after September 11, dared to give life to the third chapter, because it implies the extraterritoriality of the Law, that is, applying to European companies, for example, Meliá, the just punishment for sharing with the Cuban State the insane, unworthy exploitation of Cuban workers, whose salary is appropriated by the government in Euros, exchanged in minimal proportion for miserable devalued pesos in the pockets of the employees.
Now it turns out that in Cuba there are people worried because according to a narrative in the best Netflix style, when Trump arrives at the White House, copying the Cuban dictators Fulgencio Batista or Fidel Castro, Washington will wake up with tanks in the street, the magistrates of the supreme court will be sent home, the capitol will become a museum while in a remote corner of Arlington Che Guevara will be reborn to order executions.
After all, Donald Trump does not govern in Cuba. These disagreements with Trump reek of the bad breath of the state security police on Jail Island.
It would be better to let the Americans resolve their electoral dilemma among themselves, that we Cubans take care of our political prisoners, our hunger, our lack of freedom to decide at least between an educated communist and a daring redhead, but with a certificate of birth registered in Cuba.
Author Vicente Morin Aguado. Cuban independent journalist, professor of history and philosophy, and contributor to the digital media Havana Times, Diario de Cuba, Cubanet, Palabra Nueva, and other media. He currently lives in the United States.
