Sunday, February 24, 2008

La mala memoria corta del Cubano

Por que va Espaňa a contravenir sus propios intereses?. Leyendo a Osvaldo Paya hoy en la Revista Encuentro en la Red me parecio se sintio casi obligado a decir algo sobre lo que ocurre entre el oportunista de Moratinos, Canciller del gobierno de Zapatero y el Gobierno de Cuba y el berrinche que esto causa a muchos Cubanos por el tenor de estas audiencias. Es necesario decir algo, me imagino, penso Osvaldo, Lastimosamente peco de ingenuo cuando asevero que las naciones que mantienen relaciones “ politicas, economicas y culturales con otras, deben ser consequentes en sus relaciones con los valores y principios de la democracia y de los derechos humanos? En la historia que podemos hoy leer toda relacion entre naciones fue concevida en tramas, ventajas y desventajas e intereses. Los mas nefastos regimens de la tierra siempre tuvieron padrinos y quien los apoyaran.
La Espaňa de Franco resolvio por sus propias razones mantener las relaciones con el regimen de La Habana, debia decir el regimen de Oriente, y durante muchos anos fue la valvula de escape y modo de comunicacion con el mundo Occidental. Aunque ahora no se sabe a ciencia cierta si fue Franco o si fue Fidel quien quizo mantener las relaciones con Espaňa.
La Carta de Espaňa fue la primera fuente de informacion extranjera que lei que no fuese imprimida en alguna parte del imperio sovietico. Claro las leia e inmediatamente despues las recortaba para poder enrollar los tupamaros del dia.
La Espaňa de Moratinos, la de Franco o la de Maria Cristina o Alfonso XIII, han codiciado su glorioso pasado y lo que perdieron cuando dejaron de ser un imperio.
Ahora cuando en Cumbre tras Cumbre Espaňa, busca reintegrarse en la vida economica de las naciones de Sur y Centro America, casi como una reconquista. Como si la verguenza de 400 anos de crueldad e infamia se les borrara de la mente a los descendientes de las victimas.
Es especialmente vergonzoso en Cuba donde el Gobierno paria les ha dado entrada para dominar la industria del turismo. Esto al parecer tiene a los Espanoles tan preocupados por que un nuevo gobierno en Cuba sin los Comunistas al mando podria intervenir todas las propiedades y negocios Espaňolas en la Isla catalogandoles de hacer negocios con el enemigo o haber conspirado con los comunistas para esclavisar al pueblo Cubano que es en estos momentos exactamente lo que esta pasando.
A todas vistas los Espaňoles quieren quedarse con sus pedazos de Cuba Comunismo o no, ya le echamos de casa una vez, le echaremos una vez mas.

Friday, February 1, 2008

Cuban Characters

There is in Cuba a number of people that were able to transcend time and space just by the virtue of being themselves. By far the most famous was " El Caballero de Paris", a self styled vagabond moving through the streets of Old Havana like a spectrum in exile from the nether lands. He never panhandled or beg for anything according to those who knew him. His matted hair and dirty clothes were part of his personna. His life shrouded in mistery added flavor to the Havana of old. A statue I am told was erected in his likeness to make his existance an eternal memory.
There were others, my favorite was CHORI. A few yeras ago I heard about Chori's identity, apparently he was known. His deal, as we would say in America was rather simple. All over the city of Havana he would print his name, eye level, in white chalk and in the type of print that we all learned in workshop in High School. CHORI, every bus stop every corner in the city, just like a Nike sign.
I had the opportunity to personally meet two of these character, I met " Dorsalito" , he would have won many a Mr. America titles, his named after the muscle latissimus dorsi, which in his case was overdeveloped, not just the dorsi, but the deltoid and trapezius were also overdeveloped giving Dorsalito a vague resemblance to a butterfly with the wings spread. A tall and built AfroCuban Dorsalito made his way in the beaches of Havana, where everyone recognized him, walking , arms to his side like he was carrying a 13 inches TV under his arms.
I also had the opportunity to meet "EL Patinador de la Muerte", This fellow travelled all of Cuba in skates. I met him in the Guanajay Park one afternoon, in his way to Cienfuegos. Is told in Havana that this fellow really had some cojones and was a daredevil in Skates. Others less kind have him begging by attaching himself to moving cars.
Also I met Tanquecito.http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y99/feb99/16a10.htm This fellow I saw use a 55 gallons metal barrel like a toy, bouncing it, throwing it to make it stop or wobble at his whim, a total genious with his toy barrels.

Sunday, January 13, 2008

the great Mimic

The effect of the April 2nd, 2007 tsunami in the Solomon Island uncovered sunken ships that dated back from WWII. Among these ships were one similar to the one navigated by the late President Kennedy while a young Lieutenant in the Pacific theater of the war. As a collateral of these news and the public fascination with JFK, some old photographs resurfaced in the news media. An old photograph showed a replica of the PT 9 boat similar to the one sailed by Kennedy. This replica was being drawn in a float along a Parade on an unidentified American street.
This picture seemed all too familiar to me, and I recalled the fanfare surrounding the yacht Granma, today housed in a museum in Old Havana. This yacht had brought to Cuba from Mexico a young Castro and 81 of his followers in December of 1956. It occurred to me that the idea of transforming an old boat into a shrine was not original.
Another old American historical item; the Liberty Bell, traveled the American countryside from 1855 to 1915, attempting to foster national unity. In 1947, Fidel Castro a student at Havana University traveled to the eastern part of the country with other opposition leaders to obtain, on loan, the bell that had ushered with its tolls the Cuban Independence War in 1868. In the decade of the 60s, a cruel creation: UMAP imitated the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. In these Cuban camps, unemployed, antisocial elements, homosexuals and others considered in need of rehabilitation worked in the fields from sun up to sun down. The inscription on the entrance of these camps: “ Work will make you free”, taken right out of one of the darkest hour of mankind. The entrance to the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz I, in Poland also read: “Arbeit Macht Frei” the German version of the same phrase. Long before that the great mimic had already used another Spanish version of condemned Nazi leader. The phrase History will absolve me, used at the end of his defense in the trial for the armed assault on the Moncada Garrison is similar to the phrase used by Adolf Hitler during his trial for the Beer Hall Putsch in Germany on 1923. Like the fuehrer Castro occupied all the leadership positions as to eliminate any doubt or question regarding his total control.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

El mundo de lo real


En nuestro pais hoy en dia exiten las condiciones necesarias para un milagro real. Son varias, por brevedad mencionare solo dos: La nacion y su gente. Una condicion que continuara manifestandose en nuestras vidas es el nacionalismo Cubano. La existencia de un patrimonio nacional, capaz de trancender el criollismo, la republica mediatizada y las forzadas influencias de las ideologias politicas Europeas legitimiza al nacionalismo Cubano. A juzgar por nuestra historia este nacionalismo se mantendra como un deseo de emerger como una nacion libre y soberana,, libre de injerencias extranjeras y lo suficiente soberana para permitir el discurso publico a cualquier nivel sin que sea impregnado de caprichos, alianzas o demagogueria. El triunvirato del patrimonio , la cultura que emana de este patrimonio y el nacionalismo como base de una nacion, esta indiscutiblemente establecido, simplemente somos una nacion. No somos un partido, ni un movimiento, ni un gobierno, pero una nacion con voces y matices tan diversos, cada cual con su razon cada cual clamando ser escuchado. Pero el verdadero y ultimo examen a pasar es el de gobernabilidad. Nuestra isla ha sido gobernada por Reyes, Marqueses, Condes, Caciques, Generales, Sargentos, Capitanes, Presidentes, Comandantes, Secretarios y Doctores cada cual en su turno, en su mayoria jamas elegidos, en su mayoria totalmente ineptos o corruptos o respondiendo a agendas otras que el bienestar y el porvenir del pueblo Cubano. La nueva gestion de gobernabilidad en Cuba no sera tan dificil como se proscribe actualmente. Y me refiero a la nueva por que estamos al final de una era, casi en preterito una era herida de muerte no por la fisica desaparicion de sus representantes pero por la entropia a la que esta sometida.Esta nueva gestion contara con la gente Cubana como otra condicion para la realizacion del milagro. Una gente educada, con la mente llena de los peligros de la demagogueria, desosos de que Cuba se abra al mundo y que el mundo se abra a Cuba sin la intencion premeditada de tragarle. Una gente que ha tenido que acceptar la double moral como metodo de sobrevivencia y no como modo de comportamiento acceptable socialmente. Un pueblo con dignidad cuyo crucial error fue una fe en sus gobernantes de turno y la infusion de miedo, combinado con actos de malabarismos y una estable sobredosis de propaganda masiva. Esa gente que ama la paz a peasar de haber vivido en Guerra, conpiraciones, amenazas de Guerra e invasions desde que el primer explorador sento pies en la “ tierra mas fermosa”, en Guerra de tainos y caribes y siboneyes, en guerras para doblegar el espiritu de negros forzados a trabajar sin descanzo, en guerras de cimarrones, de poetas, de Rayos Y Soles, de Escaleras, de Vegueros, de Ingleses, de piratas y bucaneros, de Liberacion, de Guerrita de los Negros, de Americanos, Argelinos, Vietnameses, Sirianos, Namibianos, Angolenos, Somalies, Peruanos, Bolivianos , Montoneros Tupamaros, CIA, FNFM, ANC, FARC, IRA,ETA, PLO, UNITA,FSL,FRELIMO, FBI, DEA y quie sabe cuantos mas. En este milagro por ocurrir la gente tiene la obligacion de definir el gobierno que dirigira su nacion por un tiempo limitado y atravez de un proceso tranparente e igualmente accessible a todos. El obstaculo es que los exiliados y los residents estan mirandose con un lente empanado por el miedo, la apatia, el desgazte politico y la inmobilidad. El choque vendra inevitablemente cuando los residentes y los exiliados, concluyan que es su responsabilidad agilizar el proceso, no pidiendo limoznas y apoyo financiero, pero estableciendo un gobierno de transicion y al tiempo que buscan que el mundo reconozca la ingobernabilidad de Cuba y el potencial desastre que puede ocurrir si las condiciones se continuan deteriorando , comenzar a derogar leyes que minimizen el terror paralizante que sufren los que aun no se han identificado abiertamente con la oposicion

Pedro Dupre

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Cuba, una nacion dos gobiernos, no se permiten negros por favor

Cuba, A Nation; Many Governments, No Blacks Allowed, Please
By Pedro Dupre. Guest Commentary. The Black World Today. Article Dated 7/23/2001.
In a recent speech in Havana, Fidel Castro seemed to have faltered. His slurred speech, speaking of six provinces in Cuba, where for the last 20 odd years there have been 14 provinces. A strange reference to some weird plan to provide each municipality with a school all preceded what was referred to as a fainting spell by the gagged Cuba press. There is no doubt in anyone's mind that the years have taken its toll and that Fidel Castro is no longer in his prime. The usual sharp mind and haranguing tongue were all but gone. A few hours later a rejuvenated Fidel Castro conducted yet another of his lengthy speeches as if to prove that he was still in charge of his faculties. Quoted in his tirade he stated that he was " playing possum."
No one knows with certainty what would happen after Castro passed from this world. The "Historicos"; rebels from the 1959 rebellion, turned generals and ministers have degrees of control over the nation. Raul Castro, seen by many as the successor and rightful heir to his brother, has positioned many of these historic figures at the helm of industries and ministries. Gaviota SA is the front office for the communist controlled conglomerated that is the only real capitalists in the Island. This militarization of the government posts initiated after the Ochoa affair has strengthened Raul Castro's bid for power and paved the way for a similar situation observed in Russia, where former communist became the new capitalists.
The Miami elite represented by the Cuban American National Foundation, CANF, whose job is to be ready for Castro's final hour, ignored this second act of Fidel's fainting. They want to believe the maximum Leader is on his way out. After all, they too have a government in exile they very much would like to see in place in a post Castro Cuba. This institution is not the only one; there are other organizations that see themselves as the future Cuban government.
The Centro de Estudios para una Opcion National (Center of Studies for a National Option) has been busy in a series of workshops to create a Cuban Constitution to be implemented once is OK to do so. White Cubans from academia, exile organizations and government agencies gathered and plan among themselves preparing the groundwork for a future Cuba.
Other people and institutions have a stake on what would happen when Castro dies. The City of Miami and Dade County have in their vaults emergency plans for when Castro dies. One can understand that this is a preventive measure given the long awaited moment and the unpredictability of what would happen. One may not be able to understand why are these plans are secret, especially if it is assumed that the plans are solely for the implementation of safety measures and to maintain celebrations within order.
Is it inconceivable that the US. government does not have plans of their own, they do. Although similar to the Dade County plans, they are also secret. This information comes from a recent article in the Miami Herald. Apparently not even Ross Lethinen, the Cuban American Congresswoman from Florida was able to get in on the details of this plan.
History,retiring US Armed Forces presented the Cubans in the first decade of the 1900, more likely will be the expected scenario. The US will be not only threading familiar waters by establishing familiar and loyal people in other nation's government, but it will find its position more than justified by claiming potential chaos and even potential civil strife in the beleaguered island. Law and order will be the strategic cry to impose quarantine, or even to disembark troops on Cuba. The legacy of the Monroe Doctrine is alive and well in Latin America, even when there are no American lives, interest or holdings in Cuba now, there are weapons in Cuba that may warrant an US invasion to maintain the calm.
The Afrocubans who by all account comprise 50% of the population will be again left out. They do not form part of the Historicos for the most part, nor do they have any organized political force to demand an inclusion in the leadership of their nation. Inside Cuba, Cuesta Morua one of the most vocal Afrocuban leaders of the dissidents is a socialist in essence. Dr. Biscet, the newly found poster child of the would-be politically correct Miami elite may be the only one included in a transitional government post-Castro, his social politics being more in tune with the GOP than with the realities of Cuba and Afrocubans.
The lack of political will of the Afrocubans in exile to form their own political organizations, the lack of representation on the actual Cuban government and the abdication of their rights to vocalize their concerns as a separate and distinct issue may be in the end what perpetuates their exclusion from the life of the nation as participants.
Afrocubans in exile who accepted the handouts of the Miami elite and thus compromised their ability to speak for the rest of the Afrocubans have become an antithesis to the movement they should have been leading. Unable to bite the hand that feeds them and fully dependent on the benevolence of their patrons, they have once again colluded with the people who have no good design or plans for their future, allowing the postponement the redemption of the Afrocuban people.
Copyright © 2001 The Black World Today.

Monday, September 10, 2007

Requiem para los ahorcados

Requiem para los ahorcados



Los que se cansaron, y cesaron; para los que les lloraron y los que no perdonaron, la sacristia que no llego, por el pecado en contra de el Todopodero.
No mas dudas
No mas maldad
No mas absoluciones
No mas complejos de culpa.


La celda oscura sirviendo de antesala al infierno, la esperanza perdida, la fe debilitada ante la insistencia de vivir de recuerdos. Escape total.
EL ultimo aldabonazo,el ultimo angustioso grito aceptando la muerte, desafiando a vida que se disipa en calvario.Eutanasia personal, protocolo de tratamiento prognosis morbida auto diagnosis.
No mas vejaciones
No mas violaciones
No mas jejenes.
No mas golpizas
No mas hipocrecia.



Reto frustado a los pretorianos despotas , estruendoza acusacion en negro silencio.
El calabozo,
vomito y orine se mezclan
ahora libremente con la fetida permanencia del miedo ,
la erecion penil como dedo acusatorio
final insulto a cancerberos idiotas esperando su turno a cuentas rendidas.
No mas pueblo
no mas colas
no mas doblegarse ante la bota hedionda de seres mezquinos , sin traza de humanidad.



En kilo cinco, en kilo seis en kilo siete y en Ceiba seis.
No mas jabas que no llegan,
no mas cartas de doble sentidos,
No mas Aguica no mas Melena,
No mas Combinado,
no mas chinchas,
no mas mosquitos,
no mas esperanza.
Villa Marista como argumento indigno de finalidad, logica desbaratada que apresura decisiones caras, egoistas , impotentes.
En la Cabana y en Guanajay muertos de sobra alli los hay.

Las que en una pira mortal se convertieron
por los amores o por los celos
Las que tomaron la extrana dosis de algun veneno, las que vencida por el temor
Cortaron el hilo de la existencia, ya sin paciencia, ya sin paciencia.
No mas tormento
No mas amenazas
No mas compromisos.
Los defraudados, ingenuos avergonzados, los maricones al descubierto los que llegaron a la ultima parada, desesperados todos. Los tronados, los incurables, los confundidos los indomables. hermanos todos. Que vean en sus tinieblas la luz que no llegaron a ver en vida, RIP.

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Los negreros y sus palenques

Negreros y sus palenques


Claro esta que nadie tiene la percepcion de Carlos Montaner , lider liberal radicado en Espana. El senalamiento de Lula, Presidente de la Nacion Brasilera, como un negrero fue un certero disparo de Guillermo Tell. Ya sabiamos que la bestia de Biran tiene entre sus dotes hereditarias la abilidad super humana de domesticar los negros Cubanos. De la misma manera que el guajiro Garcia cria sus gallos, los entrena y los posee, Castro es dueno y senor de sus pugilistas.
Como buen negrero, enraizado en la legacia de las labores Taconianas , Castro, ha domesticado a casi todos los negros de la isla con las notables excepciones de Antunez y el Dr, Biscet. Su labor en domesticacion del Negro Cubano ha sido tan insidua y fructifera que aun esos que escapan sus ataduras fisicas y salen huyendo de Atares, Cayo Hueso, Colon, Belen, Los Pocitos , Palo Cagao, Matanzas , Santiago, Camaguey o de cualquier otra barriada, prefieren callar cuando llegan a otros lugares.
Montaner y muchos otros quiza no pueden entender que aun despues de haber dejado atras la Plantacion de los Castros, los Negros Cubanos, se siente mentalmente en los barracones y se sienten abligados a veces a bendecir a su amo, exculpandolo de toda maldad y depravidad. La legion de Negros intelectuales Cubanos en el extranjero cantandole odas a la bestia de Biran es la mas comun de las manifestaciones de la domesticacion, la paralysis politica siendo la otra. En ete caso con las notables excepciones de Enrique Patterson, Omar Lopez, Tania Quintero y otros que se andan por ahi haciendo esfuerzos por hacerse oir entre sordos como Lula, Castro y otros que andan por ahi.
Pedro Dupre