The mass protests on July 11, 2021 exposed the weakness of the communist Castro dictatorship. Since then, the regime has done its best to hide it, but it can no longer mask its imminent demise.
Cuban independent journalist Rafaela Cruz explains in Diario de Cuba:
In Cuba, the mask is falling off
The greatest nightmare of any totalitarian regime is a loss of control, something already evident in Cuba, now like a boat adrift “without a rudder or a captain.”
The national currency, once one of the cornerstones of state control, today gores salaries and pensions with inflationary impiety while an impotent Government watches the bull from the stands, knowing that it is powerless to deal with a tumultuous foreign exchange market in the hands of traitorous frontmen.
These actors, fattened ticks managing “private” companies with access to infrastructure “owned by the whole people,” but that only enrich them, reveal themselves to be untouchable by the Government, conspiring and profiting by speculating against the peso. There is no honor among thieves.
And the more insignificant the national currency is, the more insignificant are the socialist state enterprises that the Constitution sanctions, but that reality crushes, undermine the regime’s other nexus of control over citizens who once paraded en masse in order to avoid fingers being pointed to them at work.
The military’s disconnection from the rest of the regime’s apparatus can no longer be disguised. GAESA is an insatiable black hole that decapitalizes the country by applying a funnel (a big mouth for its tourism, and small ones for everyone else) a policy imposed by the Ministry of the Armed Forces, the MINFAR, which, physically and literally, has the Palace of the Revolution within firing range.
The military bullies the Party because, when ideologies die, weapons rule. Like a bully in a schoolyard, they shake down the PCC for every dollar received from grandma in Miami, and there the civilians go, wearing expressions of resignation, to print off yet more pesos, thereby stoking a painful inflationary process more painful than a boil right where the digestive system ends. A fiscal deficit is the only balm that the Government has found to alleviate its ineptitude, but this is a toxic cure, a remedy worse than the disease.
Alejandro Gil, once the country’s most important minister, is now imprisoned, along with his wife and the frontman with whom he was cannibalizing the country’s most important agricultural company in order to erect, on its ruins, an empire of canned vegetables and fruit juice. The Castroist house of cards is crumbling from above. The sky’s going to fall…
Meanwhile, in the Pearl of the South all hell has broken loose. In Cienfuegos, everyone from the first provincial secretary to the gravedigger of its eclectic cemetery has been stealing. Manuel Marrero went there to announce “sanctions in line with a wartime economy.” Are they going to mow down the corrupt by firing squad like they do in China? Nothing is as pathetic as a dying man boasting about his strength.
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