On the 23rd the corojo is broken, a mambisa expression that meant the end of the truce between the insurgents and the Spanish hosts, who refused to leave the “always faithful island of Cuba”, a phrase that, over time, became synonymous that there is no possible conciliation when the victims of the abuses assume that they have no other alternative than to defeat their perpetrators.
General Antonio Maceo, Bronze Titan, the most distinguished Cuban general, 26 wounded in combat, refused to sign a peace agreement after ten years of fighting, 1868-1878, with the Spanish general Arsenio Martínez Campos, both agreeing to resume the hostilities eight days later, motivating among the guerrillas the enthusiastic exclamation “the 23rd breaks the corojo!”, alluding to the end of the truce that many considered ominous.
Castroism instilled in broad sectors of the citizenry the certainty that the regime was immovable, that any action against it would fail and its actors would suffer the consequences, even more so, Fidel Castro had the audacity to proclaim that socialism in Cuba was irreversible. , as Adolf Hitler proclaimed his Thousand Year Reich.
However, we write it with pride, in these six long decades the resistance has not ceased as shown by the numerous political prisoners who rot in jail without international organizations being able to visit them as the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights, among others, demands. .
In the property called Cuba, which the Castro brothers appropriated, it seems that a number of protesters have emerged that the political police cannot control. Many are losing the fear that gripped them day after day and others are showing that the population is willing to break the vile armor of an atrocious dictatorship that has humiliated and harassed them for years.
It is evident that Cubans want to break their courage since they do not stop demanding better living conditions together with the end of the dictatorship, as has been seen in the city of Nuevitas where city dwellers have constantly shouted at the dictatorship that they were fed up with living as slaves, some alluding in their demands to the mambí machete redeemer and apparently echoing the expression of General Antonio, “Freedom is conquered with the edge of the machete, it is not asked for; begging for rights is typical of cowards incapable of exercising them”.
The protests in most of the national territory are a constant, a symptom that the population is losing its fear and freeing itself from the ballast of blind obedience to a leadership that has only reaped failures and that has devastated the country as if it had suffered a war.
Apparently, the growing misery and the permanent crop of frustrations have led them to become aware that the promises of the regime are unfeasible and that they need to act as necessary to gain access to a better life.
After the protests of July 11, 2021, a notable discontent is estimated throughout the country that is exacerbated by the power outages, which they miraculously manage to restore when the population expresses itself firmly, as has happened in the Pastelillo neighborhood, Nuevitas , which can be understood that for Castroism the obedient is the one who suffers the most.
Everything seems to indicate that repression is no longer enough to continue controlling a dissatisfied population in all aspects. Fear and hope, the two most leafy trees of Castroism, seem to be drying up rapidly.
People are appreciating, more than ever before, the high levels of corruption and ineptitude of officials to solve the many and constant problems that the regime itself generates and that are not a consequence of the vaunted embargo or US aggression.
In addition, the most faithful supporters of Castroism, however servile they may be, will understand that the protests are legitimate, that they are not imported and that they do not respond to proposals from abroad. It is the neighbor, the repressor himself, who suffers from the systematic and permanent stupidity of a failed dictatorship in all aspects, except in its determination to destroy the Cuban nation as they did with the Republic.
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