The Castro regime has a vocation for eternity. Both the Castro brothers and their praetors consider the island a family heritage, which is why they tried to train the new generations within the most orthodox framework of their postulates, monopolizing education, discrediting religions, rewriting national history and imposing a rigid social control that privileged the servile and severely punished the unruly.
The recipe was partially beneficial for him for a while, but freedom is a contagion that neither the firing squad nor prison can eradicate, especially if those who imprison only reap failures and produce misery, as any individual with common sense can appreciate what happens in Cuba.
The tight control of education and its tragic consequences and the incorporation of young people into the fight for democracy in the country in which they were born or in that of their parents, is a recurring issue in the conversations that those of us who have been involved for a long time have. in this bloody process against Castroist totalitarianism. It has always been a concern that the democratic side that confronts the regime inside and outside the island, has sufficient relief to defeat a political imposition that has devastated our country.
For years, some have been emphatic in affirming that within the island there is relief and that this was confirmed by the number of young people who were in prison serving severe sentences, but that many more were needed in exile Orlando Gutiérrez and Daniel Pedreira, that although they did an excellent job in disseminating the Cuban reality and in overthrowing the dictatorship, they were not enough, a situation that has been changing in recent years thanks to the commitment to freedom shown by a large group of young people who have arrived into exile for a relatively short time.
It is not new, young people committed to freedom and democracy have always arrived, some with a strong and remarkable activism in our beloved island, but in recent times the arrival of these activists is more relevant because they make themselves felt, by organizing activities against Castroism and its allies, or show a willingness to join efforts to that end.
It is not in dispute that the most relevant opposition is the one that takes place in the first trench, Cuba, but the one that takes place abroad is very important because, in part, it is the sounding board of what happens inside the Island. , without failing to fulfill other significant tasks in favor of democracy and freedom.
A few days ago, while talking with Ángel de Fana, a man exceptionally committed to the fight for respect for the rights of all Cubans, we came to the conclusion that the young people from this latest migratory batch showed much more commitment to working in favor of democracy in Cuba than other similar groups, including the members of the so-called Crisis of the Balseros, 1994, although they had the indisputable solidarity of exile, thanks to the work carried out in the Casa del Balsero, Cayo Hueso, by Arturo Cobo, Carlitos Solís, Rafael Cabezas, Roberto Jiménez and several more.
Inquiring about the reason for these differences, we arrived at the consideration that it was a consequence of the total breakdown of the totalitarian proposal, that the regime had been exhausted for a long time, but that only now the people were perceiving the wear and tear and recovering hopes and confidence. that a better country could be built.
There is no doubt about the power of fear to paralyze people, to bury the dreams of many individuals, but the control that derives from fear is extremely fragile if it is not associated with utopia, with the illusion that what we deliver today, including dignity, will be more than compensated, a chimera that everything seems to indicate has been rejected by the majority of Cubans.
The level of citizen participation in the protests that have taken place in Cuba is strong evidence that the double standards imposed by Castroism have come to an end, a reality that is also reflected in those who emigrate for whatever reason.
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