CUBA'S EMERGING FROM THE PAST

CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY PROTAGONISM RETURNS TO CUBA.

WHEN THE 26 OF JULY MOVEMENT, PROCEEDED TO DIRECT THE FUTURE OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION AFTER BATISTA’S OVERTHROW ON JANUARY 1959, IN A DICTATORIAL MODE, DISAFFECTED INSURGENT GROUPS FROM THE O/A, STUDENTS DIRECTORATE, AND SECOND FRONT OF ESCAMBRAY, CONTINUED THE ARMED INSURRRECTION AGAINST THE NEW BUDDING DICTATORSHIP. SOME, AS DID PLINIO PRIETO, WENT BACK TO THE MOUNTAINS, OTHERS FOLLOWED CITY WARFARE AGAINST THE 26 OF JULY. EVENTUALLY, THOSE WHO DID NOT DIED IN ACTION, FLED TO EXILE IN UNITED STATES.

IN UNITED STATES THE LEADERSHIP OF THE ANTI CASTRO MOVEMENT WAS IN THE HANDS OF “AUTENTIC”AND” BATISTA’S” POLITICAL PARTIES POLITICIANS SETTLED IN U.S. RIGHT AFTER BATISTA’S OVERTHROW, AND WHO HAD DELIVERED THE DIRECTION OF THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE 26 OF JULY DICTATORSHIP TO PRESIDENT EISENHOWER’S GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. THESE U.S. AGENCIES’S PLAN WAS TO MILITARILY TRAIN CUBANS IN FLORIDA, AND GUATEMALA TO INVADE THE ISLAND UNDER EXILE’S FALSE PREMISE THAT CUBANS WERE SUPPORTING THE INVASION AND THE 26 OF JULY HAD NO SUPPORT FROM THE CUBAN PEOPLE. WHEN MR. NIXON, EXPECTED HEIR TO EISENHOWER’S PRESIDENCY TO THE U.S., WAS NOT ELECTED, AND THE NEW ELECTED PRESIDENT, MR. KENNEDY WAS ADVISED OF THE SECRET CUBA’S INVASION PLANS, KENNEDY REFUSED TO HONOR THE PLAN. MEANWHILE, IN THEIR SOUTH AMERICAN TRAINING CAMPS, CUBANS WERE FIGHTING EACH OTHER (BATISTA VS. AUTHENTIC) AND SEVERAL HAD ESCAPED THE CAMPS AND WERE IN NEW YORK READY TO TALK ABOUT THE INVASION PLANS TO ANY ONE THAT WOULD LISTEN. SITUATION UPON WHICH U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES CHOOSE TO SENT THE INVASION TO CUBA ZAPATA’S SWAMP WITHOUT THE PROMISED LOGISTICAL SUPPORT OR THE NEW PRESIDENT’S ORDER. INVADING CUBANS OF THE 2506 BRIGADE WERE PROMPTLY KILLED OR IMPRISONED. SUBSEQUENTLY TO THIS DEBACLE THE KENNEDY'S WERE MURDERED, THE NORTH AMERICAN EMPIRE LAUNCHED AN ARMAMENTIST WARMONGERING CAREER AGAINST WEAKER NATIONS AND UPON THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AT HOME. RETURNED EXILES IMPRISONED IN CUBA HAD BECOME AMERICAN CITIZENS AND HAD IMMERSE INTO UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES, POLITICS, SOCIETY AND INDUSTRY, EVENTUALLY “OWNING”SOUTH FLORIDA; CUBANS WHO CHOOSE TO CONTINUE THE INSURRECTIONAL WAR AGAINST THE 26 OF JULY, AT OUR OWN LOYAL KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING OF THINGS, PASSED FROM “FREEDOM FIGHTERS” TO “TERRORIST” AND WERE PERSECUTED AND INCARCERATED. DECADES OF CUBAN BLOCKADE ISOLATION CONTINUED.

THE U.S. CUBAN BLOCKADE THAT SOUGHT TO DISTANCE THE TRIUMPHANT ANTI AMERICAN 26 OF JULY DICTATORSHIP FROM CONTAMINATING OTHER NATIONS AND SUBMIT IT BY FORCING IT TO DO WITHOUT; SUCCEEDED IN CREATING A VOID BETWEEN CUBANS ROOTED HERE AND IN CUBA WITH NO COMMUNICATION OTHER THAN THAT OF HATED MORTAL ENEMIES RHETORIC, AND TO SPREAD ANTI AMERICAN CASTRISM ALL OVER THE WORLD. EXILE'S ONLY CONNECTION WITH THE ISLAND WERE THE STEADY STREAM OF INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES BRAVING THE SEA TO FLEE THE 26 OF JULY DICTATORSHIP ABUSE OF POWER, POVERTY,LACK OF FREEDOM AND ANTI AMERICAN WARMONGERING; AND OCCASIONALLY IN BIG NUCLEI AS THE CAMARIOCA AND MARIEL EXODUSES; ALWAYS EYED WITH SUSPICION BY THE "HISTORIC EXILE", OWNERS OF POLITICAL POWER, INDUSTRY IN SOUTH FLORIDA; AND SEVERAL U.S. GOVERNMENT SENATE SEATS THAT WANTED TO KNOW NOTHING OF CUBA BEYOND THE PERENNIAL DEMAGOGUERY MESSAGE THAT THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT WOULD FREE CUBA.

UNTIL TODAY’S VIRTUAL ERA BECAME OF AGE AND THE IDEOLOGICAL ISOLATING BARRIERS OF PHYSICAL SEPARATION NULL BY THE IMMEDIACY OF COMMUNICATION AMONG EXILES AND NOT FLEEING CUBANS SEEKING FREEDOM NOT ESCAPE BEGAN TO BE HEARD. NOW THAT ALL CUBANS CAN SHARE THE LANGUAGE OF PATRIOTIC THOUGHTS WITH VIRTUAL IMMEDIACY, THE PHYSICAL DISTANCE THAT SEPARATED US NO LONGER EXISTS, WE ARE BECOMOING ONE NATION SEEKING FREEDOM AND PROTAGONISM HAS RETURNED TO CUBA.

HECTOR CORNILLOT

PLEASE, PRAY A FEW SECONDS TO YOUR GOD, FOR EDUARDO AROCENA FAMILY; AROCENA IS THE LONGEST HELD CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONER IN UNITED STATES.