The communist pact

Cuba in 2024 is a Socialist State, it recognizes armed struggle in its Constitution, an available and legitimate means in the face of any attempt to change the current model of the socialist homeland. The island, like Chile, has a Cuban Communist Party (PCC) with its bases: Martista, Fidelista, Marxist and Leninist. Its economy is socialist, that is, it has an economic system that controls and plans everything, supervises and regulates, everything is under the Socialist State, nothing outside of it. Cuba is for our Communist Party (PC) a reference and a historical and current ally, that is why the pact, an agreement between two parties that commit to a political mission. The PCC has military militants and their representatives at the top (board of directors). Cuban communists believe they are the only alternative “to underdevelopment and neocolonial domination.” In Cuba, legally the death penalty still exists.

The socialist island has lights and shadows, it is seen by the local PC as the flag of the anti-imperialist struggle; They see in the triumph of the Cuban revolution (1959) an example and a path of brotherhood and solidarity; a revolutionary process from which to learn and support despite geographical but not ideological distance. The revolutionary island is for the PC a magnet and an example of surviving Marxism-Leninism in the face of the challenges of the 21st century. Days ago, Havana received two Chilean communist leaders (Lautaro and Bárbara), who from the island denounced the effects and ravages of the "criminal blockade." A four-day tour for visitors, a favorable opportunity to soak up Cuban socialist society, a model without the contradictions of democracy and capital (according to the communist creed). In Chile, the communists still have to “overcome savage capitalism.”

The visit allowed us to exchange experiences, renew commitments and interests in the face of immediate and intermediate challenges. An agreement of “exchange and cooperation” in a context of integration with the region and confronting North American hegemony. A pact behind the scenes in which they shared experiences about local and international political events. Along with renewing “class solidarity” and promoting global cooperation, especially in the Americas and the Caribbean. Beyond the pact, the ideological brotherhood, declarations and the validation of the armed route (the use of violence), some paradoxes appear, let's see.

The PC refuses to recognize the internal problems and contradictions in Cuba, which are openly repressed. Dissidents do not exert “social pressure” or “take over the streets” or the institutions, their demands are at risk, they are exposed to arbitrary trials, street repression or simply dying in the attempt. Critics of the Cuban dictatorship do not march asking for readjustments in their salaries or “living wages (the new slogan raised on recent May 1). In Cuba there are urgent issues, living conditions are far below material and subsistence “dignity.” The island is light years away from standards already achieved in the Chile of “savage capitalism.” In Cuba there is hunger and fear.

Not to mention Human Rights (HR) in the nascent marches and protests, which clash with a categorical official response. The island has reports and complaints from related organizations that warn of political persecution, repression and other downward indicators in human rights matters. It is difficult for the local PC to consider these reports or to be considered "gringo plots and interference." The defense of human rights is strikingly concentrated in Chile and Gaza, there are no words for Cuba or Venezuela.

Saying that Cuba is a socialist dictatorship is audacity, a kind of blasphemy before the communist creed, which is why Boric's words were not well received in the ranks of local communism in relation to "advancing the democratization of Cuba." Because even if they dress in democratic clothing, it is difficult to believe them. Historically they are associated with the use of hatred and violence, due to abuses, political persecutions, purges and deaths; which they forget and omit, not least, that on more than one occasion they were defined by the Church as “an intrinsically perverse doctrine” and an “ideology of evil.” The hammer and sickle do not represent freedom, rather, they represent the blood of innocents.

Their democratic clothing carries a very heavy backpack, the validation of the violent path of yesterday and today, translated into millions of deaths at the hands of the revolution and dictatorships, in which cruelty became justified and sophisticated. The armed route is a latent risk, it is nothing new under the sun in the communist creed. Today the Cuban island is a center of information and training for new cadres related to the revolution and the eternal fight against capitalism. Cuba is at the same time a living museum of the misery of the communist paradise. Therefore, tell me who you are with and I will tell you who you are, a saying that applies to the aforementioned pact and the coalition that governs us. Today's anticommunism is not only visceral, it is historical and necessary. It is no longer enough to say again: “we didn't see it coming.”