Fidel: "The History will not absolve you”

I do not manage to avoid the comparison of your initial history, yours, that of Raúl and that of so many people others, with that of those who dissent in the today Cuba. A bloodless Cambric coup d'état, in 1952, pushed you to rise in weapon against the dictator that violentaba the Constitution. On July 26, 1953, it was a Sunday and two hundred men under your control were preparing to assault the Barracks Moncada of Santiago de Cuba making use that good number of soldiers was walking drunk by the holidays of the apostle, boss of Santiago de Cuba. There were deaths for both sides and the assault ended in a defeat. The survivors stayed in Cambric hands. In the judgment you proclaimed that “the History would absolve you”. Now, serious doubts exist.

The attack to barracks, on the part of two hundreds of civil, with dead soldiers, was an explosion in the middle of the indolent Caribbean Sea. This is for what you were looking to attract the attention on the usurpation of the power and the offense to the freedoms on the part of the ex-sergeant, Fulgencio Batista Zaldívar. Defended yourself you yourself as lawyer and the Monsignor's intervention Pérez Serantes, Archbishop of Santiago, which had baptized you, saved you the life. You had an impartial judge, Manuel Urrutia Lleo, that you would nominate a President of the Republic in January, 1958.

42-year-old Orlando Zapata Tamayo, died after 86 days of fasting in protest for the dealing that one gives in in the Kilo prison 8 of Camagüey to the conscience prisoners, many of which fell down in the raids of 2003 and that, as in case of Orlando, they were adding up up to 25 years of jail for expressing opinions different from those of the diet. Memory that in 1953, the survivors you were imprisoned in Isla de Pinos where did not happen any more than 19 months you and a few any more of your partners of the Moncada. It is necessary to remember that you produced deaths between the soldiers. Your living conditions in the penalty were not so bad when you created the Academy Abel Santamarí in the one that, like the only teacher, you were training to the men called to follow to the Mexican exile in May, 1955.

With those precedents, you should have been more magnanimous with the prisoners of the Black Spring to which you wanted to give a lesson. Founder of Republican Alternative, the bricklayer Orlando Zapata Tamayo was turning into an enemy of the people for not submitting to the slogans of the diet and wanting to think for himself. Why did not you expel the conscience prisoners as it did Cambric with you? You have allowed him to die in his hunger strike of 86 days. In any civilized country, “it is a crime not to give assistance to person in death danger”. I said to you that you harmed in not allowing to go out for Yoani Sánchez to receive his Award Ortega and Gasset. Now you have curled the curl. We believed many in the possibility of a pacific Transition. Today I doubt that it is possible. In any case, another illustrious Galician, Francisco Franco, was affirming to have made any “bundle and good tied”, do not believe that your knots are going to be stronger and lasting.