Granma Newspaper: The Lies And The Cynicism

Granma Newspaper: The Lies And The Cynicism
Antonio Rodiles, Estado de Sats / State of Sats, Translator: Unstated

The recent editorial by the newspaper Granma clearly defines the
mediocrity and poverty of thought of a system that now howls desperately
at its approaching end. The text is an apology to the cynicism of the
elite and those who serve it, who try to discredit and silence the
independent voices that spring from Cuban society, and so conceal their
total debacle.

It is outrageous to see that the same government and the same criminal
characters who instituted the firing squads and the long sentences in
subhuman conditions as a way to maintain the terror, who ordered the
repudiation rallies and beatings, attaching the people's name as the
author of these abominable acts, try to present themselves before Cuba
and the world as paradigms of honesty and virtue.

The country lies in ruins and they don't care, they display not the
slightest dignity. They want to stay until the last moment, at any
price, even provoking civil violence, seeing their allies as mere
objects for their use. Fidel Castro did it at the Moncada Barracks
attack when he supposedly lost his way in Santiago de Cuba, a city he
knew very well, while other assailants fought and were killed. Raúl
Castro did the same thing at the battle of Marcos Sánchez, in that now
distant 1958, when cowardly and shamefully he fled, leaving behind all
his troops.

These two characters keep the country in ruins. A constantly rising
number of Cubans are literally crushed to death in the collapses of
their disastrous homes, while Castro descendants assume the right to
continue to plunder the nation of its funds, without rendering an
account to anyone.

Waiting to beat the mourners coming from the church after the Mass for
Oswaldo Payá

They and their sidekicks claim that we Cubans destroy each other like
mad dogs, trying to sell ever more dearly the disaster they have
provoked in our nation, they are insatiable, they are beings who profess
an utter contempt for humanity, tolerance, humility, for our land.

Those who launched a rabid mob to beat people on the morning of July 24
during the funeral of opposition leader Oswaldo Payá, are the same ones
who will give the order to shoot into a defenseless crowd, the same who
prefer to drown thousands and thousands in a bottomless sea, rather than
accept their ignorance and decay.

Hopefully the peons who form a part of and who cooperate with this
nefarious machinery will begin to understand, for the good of all, that
there is no action without consequence and that the winds are beginning
to blow in favor of the truth.

1 August 2012

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