The Lie Continues

The Lie Continues / Fernando Damaso
Posted on December 1, 2015

Fernando Damaso, 25 November 2015 — The authorities, the functionaries
and some so-called Cuba experts, as well as some "friends" abroad,
continue to blame the Cuban Adjustment Act and the application of the
"wet-foot-dry-foot" policy for the stampede of Cuban citizens which has
created a tense situation in Central American countries, due to their
constant arrival in transit to the United States.

In fact, the principal cause, which they do not want to recognize, is
found in the complete failure of the socialist experiment, which has
been incapable of creating political, economic and social conditions
that allows Cubans to realize their plans for their lives in their own
country.

Arab, African and other emigrants heading to Europe don't do it because
there is an Adjustment Law, but because, as in Cuba, in their home
countries the living conditions to support self-development are also
missing, along with war and terrorism in some of them.

Emigrants from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and other
Latin American countries also head to the United States not because
there is an Adjustment Law for their benefit, but because in their
countries they cannot create their own present nor their futures.

It would be healthy to set aside the lie and come to accept that the
main cause of emigration is found within the countries that generate it
and not outside of them. What's more, the Cuban authorities are
primarily responsible for the current stampede, as they have been for
all the previous ones, and as they will be for the ones they continue to
produce. They should recognize their failure as leaders and stop blaming
others for the terrible consequences of their repeated errors.

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