The opposition movement in Cuba and the island’s dictatorial government are on completely different trajectories. With every day that passes, the opposition movement grows stronger while the Castro regime becomes weaker and more desperate. The Cuban dictatorship’s wave of violent repression this past year resulting in record numbers of harassment, beatings, imprisonment, and even the murder of peaceful human rights activists has not had the intended effect of quashing dissent. Instead, it has only made the opposition stronger and more resolute to end the five-decades long enslavement of the Cuban people by a vile and brutal dictatorship.
Watching its power erode every day, the Castro dictatorship is growing more desperate to survive. More people are resisting their oppressors, and the Castro regime finds itself unable to effectively control the situation with just violence, imprisonment, and murder. Out of desperation, they are now attempting to bribe the opposition, offering them money to stay quiet and cease their resistance.
Payo Libre (in Spanish) is reporting that opposition member Jose Angel Luque Alvarez was arrested at his home last Sunday morning by State Security agents and taken to a local police precinct where he was thrown into a holding cell. Later, he was transported to a safe house where several high-ranking agents from State Security’s Section 21 were waiting for him. After threatening Luque Alvarez for his work in the opposition, they then offered him cash to cease his involvement with the resistance movement, stating that they were “tired of seeing of seeing his name on the internet.”
I have always thought that publicity would bring about the downfall of these monsters. You wonder what these people are made of that they could kill or torture with impunity or with pleasure. What exactly is it at this point in their lives that keeps them wanting to keep power?
I remember Malcolm Muggeridge being questioned by Bill Buckley about what it is that creates a tyrant. In his beautiful voice, Muggeridge answered, “Because people who crave power, absolute power, have forgotten that G-d’s purpose on earth is love.” Did the Castro’s ever know that in the first place?
But, as with all wrong things, Obama’s popularity or communism’s power, it is not merely the wrong doers who are at fault. It is the useful idiots who make excuses for them or forget to despise wrongful usurpation of others’ freedoms.
Keep keeping the names of the Castros’ victims in the public eye and the evil ones will fall.