The malignancy of the Castro-communist dictatorship and the Military Junta of Barrigones that inherited the totalitarian asylum is demonstrated just by seeing the ruinous state of today’s Cuba. In the self-sufficient, functional, prosperous and happy Cuba that Fidel Castro and his gang were determined to destroy, the laws were governed by decency and morality.
Fidel Castro and the members of the gang who accompanied him to kill Cubans in the early hours of July 26, 1953 were captured, tried, sentenced, imprisoned and amnestied twenty-two months after the terrorist attack. Those who were not judged were either because they escaped or because they fell in combat, despite later myths.
During his stay in prison, the future tyrant enjoyed reading Marxist texts, cooked their recipes, tasted excellent cigars and even created an indoctrination school. At the time of the amnesty by the government of Fulgencio Batista, he left through the main door of the prison with his henchmen, dressed in suits and carrying suitcases with their belongings.
Batista did not exile them: Fidel Castro was able to give press conferences, meet with his followers and march, with everything arranged, to Mexico to prepare another attack, now expeditionary, against the same government that granted him amnesty after murdering its military personnel.
In Mexico he dedicated himself to hoarding weapons of war, training his personnel in armed struggle tactics and buying—without paying—a boat; all using money donated by Batista’s opponents, both abroad and from Cuba.
Sixty-seven years after all this banditry took over the destinies of that Cuba that granted amnesty, Today more than a thousand political prisoners remain in the filthy prisons of Cuba. They are not imprisoned for murdering police or soldiers of the dictatorship; They are imprisoned for asking for freedom and human rights.
They have not been amnestied by that murderous regime. Amnesties now are not amnesties: they are releases of kidnapped people in exchange for concessions or good press. They are operations of division and polarization. They free the usable while they annihilate the patriots.
They have destroyed the lives of thousands of people who have only dissented or protested against destructive and repressive totalitarianism. Each one of them has a name, a story, a pain. Each one of them deserves our support, our eternal denunciation. Not only for his immediate release, but for the suffering caused.
Look at the case of Lisandro Betancourt Escalona: he has been in prison for thirty-seven years for not accepting ignominy. Today he has no hands, he is missing an eye, he suffers from diabetes, chronic heart disease, ventriculosis and aneurysm, among other things. For him there is no amnesty or mercy. Like him, thousands more. Each one has a name, a story, a pain.
Fidel Castro and his gang were freed twenty-two months after gunning down Cubans in a terrorist attack. Twenty-two months in which they ate desired dishes, read uncensored books, smoked delicious cigars and came out healthy and rosy.
More than a thousand prisoners languish today in the prisons of the regime imposed since January 1, 1959. Tens of thousands have passed through these prisons just to protest or oppose totalitarianism. Thousands of lives cut short by the inhumanity of the regime imposed by a despot.
This July 26 marks seventy-three years since Fidel Castro’s people—he did not shoot, he was always a coward—began the massacre among Cubans. Slaughter that still continues. Massacre that the evil side still continues to win.
Let us not forget. No negotiation, much less that horror they call “transition.” Justice and punishment. Only justice and punishment.
