The late Castroist general Luis Alberto Rodríguez López Calleja was, perhaps, the subject who could have led Cuba in the transition from totalitarianism to post-totalitarianism, the objective of those who defend change so that everything remains the same. His ability to produce money was an attraction for his peers, the children and grandchildren of the caudillos of July 26.
The heirs of the moncadistas, faithful to the Castro family, have not shown until now that they have inherited the bloodlust of their ancestors, but they do show a great fondness for a luxurious life, for enjoying the wealth of others, because not even they nor have their parents produced goods, but rather destroyed the Cuban heritage.
The deceased was a genuine representative of the new class, but he was a man committed to the regime. His father, Guillermo Rodríguez, known in Santa Clara as “Gallo Ronco” was a doctor by profession and was one of the many generals of the Castro army, as well as a personal friend of the commander in stone.
Rodríguez López Calleja, was the owner and lord of the Business Administration Group, GAESA, which according to insiders is the best money-making factory of the dictatorship, controls between 70 to 80 percent of the economic activity of the Island.
The failing Cuban totalitarianism, unlike its disappeared European counterparts, is of military origin and as such has been shown to the world. The backbone of the insular regime has been the military and not State Security, as tends to be believed, nor the ineffable Communist Party.
More than 70% of the island’s senior leadership is of military extraction, a considerable number of members of the Central Committee of the Party come from the Armed Forces and the fundamental economic activities, in the opinion of numerous specialists, are under the authority of the military.
General López Calleja was the most genuine example that in Cuba there is no army at the service of the country, but rather uniformed condottieros helping the Castro family. He served in the Castroist imperial forces at the order of Moscow, he worked in the counterintelligence corps, a nucleus where the most faithful supposedly enter, and in 1996, he was appointed head of GAESA. When he died he was a member of the Central Committee of the Party, of its political bureau and advisor to the ruler Miguel Díaz Canel.
In the first years of Castroism, when the masses were seduced by the magnetism of the tyrant in chief, the “very faithful Revolutionary Armed Forces” were awarded stars, later, when the decadence began, Fidel and Raúl realized that the stars they were not enough and it was necessary to combine moral encouragement among the most loyal with material goods, especially if they were related to the imperial family.
The businessman, a former employee of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, became a general for his services to the Castro regime and the former Soviet Union in Angola, guaranteed his two stars and the future, for sharing the bed with the daughter of Raúl, the executioner of Loma of San Juan, where 72 men were shot fulfilling their mandate.
The marriage of this general, regardless of the rest of the skills he might possess, gave him an advantage that none of his peers could overcome, because the Castro family, like the mafia clans, seek alliances that strengthen their power. .
Based on the aforementioned, it is evident that the general had the conditions to become a personality of totalitarianism, so it should not be ruled out that in a few years, if Castroism survives in some of its forms, it must be recognized that he has chameleon conditions to change his mind. proposals without losing perspective, that some of his peers from the new class in power, decide to erect a statue of him for having been the best of the condottieros of Castroism, perhaps, something similar to the statue of Erasmus of Narni, in Padua.
At the end of the day, General Luis Alberto Rodríguez López Calleja was an accomplice in countless outrages committed by the regime he served, which is why I accept the Apostle’s writing, “Calmly seeing a crime is committing it” and not there are doubts that he witnessed and participated in crimes against the Cuban nation.
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