Cuba, heading towards post-totalitarianism?

By: Pedro Corzo - 19/03/2024

Guest columnist.
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For many years, we Cubans realized that the dictatorship that the Castro brothers had imposed on the Island was essentially different from those we had suffered in the past, not only because it was characterized by infinite repression, extreme cruelty, plus control over citizens. that was unprecedented, including the management of property that gradually became a prerogative of the state

In the first years there was a lot of chaos in the country. Confusion and errors incurred by all citizens. I still remember with apprehension that Fidel Castro identified each year with a name and although the purpose of such names was to indicate the most important task of those 365 days, the opposite happened as was seen in the year of “Planning” and “Organization”. ”, 1962 and 1963, respectively because from those dates onwards, the disarray of the economy became more accentuated along with those shot, political prisoners and exiles.

If there was something certain from January 1959 onwards, it was that no one could be oblivious to political affairs. The process that began encompassed everything, we became involved, voluntarily or involuntarily, in the Castroist framework that in the end we would identify as totalitarianism, very similar in criminality to the Nazi-Soviet systems, but much more economically encompassing than these, to the extreme, which The writer Jose Antonio Albertini said that they were taking over the toothbrush, in a very short time they disappeared from the market along with toothpastes and everything else.

At first it was a genuine military dictatorship of populist inspiration, distinguished by absolute inefficiency, waste, massive propaganda and deification of Fidel Castro and consecration of his closest apostles. Along with the demonization of political parties and the subjugation of all civil society, including union, social and professional societies.

In fact, the large owners had lost their assets in the first three years of the revolutionary government, parallel to the expropriation of foreign capital companies, without those affected receiving compensation. Also, many small businesses had been confiscated, the dictatorship forming consolidated companies that contributed greatly to the productive abyss into which it plunged the country.

The Castros controlled the economy without neglecting politics. They never allowed independent political management, nor did they allow press of any kind. In 1965, Cuba was under a single-party regime and to make it official, the Communist Party of Cuba and its official organ, the libel, Granma, were created.

When “socialism” was imposed and the generous Soviet subsidy was secured, guaranteed with it sending thousands of Cubans as cannon fodder for Castro and the Kremlin, the country was ready for the most ruthless totalitarianism, already imposed in political management.

On March 13, 1968, the regime nationalized approximately 58 thousand small businesses with the proposal that it would be the ideal method to industrialize the country. Cobblers, hairdressers, barbers, seamstresses and all productive workers, those that the regime currently promotes as MSMEs or self-employed workers, became state employees. The bureaucracy was enthroned and the leadership of the new industries and companies was assumed by the men of the party, real men in black, not fiction, they were all incompetence personified.

I remember that even the bars and nightclubs were closed because they were the sources, according to the ruling party, of prostitution, homosexuality and crime, described as social scourges by the leaders of the Central Committee of the Party, however, for the following decade despite the fact that The 10 Million, Van, Van that went nowhere, the rest of the national economy was severely depressed while dependence on the Soviet Union and the militarization of Cuban society increased.

The enthusiasm of the Castros led the country into the wastelands of corruption and inefficiency. The national economy is in absolute ruin, so much so that according to some the regime is on the path of getting rid of some measures of totalitarianism to return to being the bloody dictatorship prior to March 13, 1968, in which they will surely reign. the bars next to the bloody bread of the always opponents who will always fight the ancient tyranny.

When “socialism” was imposed and the generous Soviet subsidy was secured, guaranteed with it sending thousands of Cubans as Castro's cannon fodder to the service of the Kremlin, the country was ready for the most ruthless totalitarianism, already imposed in political management.

The enthusiasm of the Castros led the country into the wastelands of corruption and inefficiency. The national economy is in absolute ruin, so much so that, according to some, the system is on the path of getting rid of some measures of totalitarianism to return to being the bloody dictatorship prior to March 13, 1968, in which surely , the bars will be reigning next to the bloody bread of the eternal opponents who will fight the ancient tyranny.

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