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ISHR Conference: Ing. Cesar Alarcon is
requesting the union all cubans and
to use an effective method of fight against the communism.
Thank you very much to those present here today: Members of the German
Parliament, Government Officials of the European Parliament,
Distinguished Ambassadors, Directors of the International Society of
Human Rights, Members of other distinguished organizations pro basic
freedoms, participant, compatriots, friends in general.
It is an honor for me to be here today and to share with you the manner
in which MCUD and SOS Justice analyze, understand and believe we should
deal with the oppression problem by Communism in Cuba, which affects the
majority of the population.
I will try to be brief.
I will lead with the premise that to win any battle, be it a
conventional or asymmetrical, first one needs to consider the potential,
the real forces, the allies, the procedures that the enemy at hand uses,
never underestimate the enemy, and then oppose him with a superior
physical and intellectual force. Therefore we will only be able to
overcome our adversary, the communist dictatorship, using a program of
battle adapted for that task.
The permanence of the totalitarian system in Cuba, in spite of the
numerous adverse prognoses to the same, is a reality that forces one to
reanalyze the procedures and efforts of this fight. Therefore MCUD and
SOS Justice believe that it is fundamental, and an ethical obligation to
study this phenomenon, to expose the truth and to use it to understand
exactly the operative nature of the criminal regime that we face.
Presently it is common for the average press and prominent Cubans in
exile to assure: "the Castro regime is at its end", "the Cuban Communism
is in a comma", the Castrismo is already dead, the only thing lacking is
the death certificate ". Nevertheless, it continues
and it is evident by the very bad conditions that the oppressed people
of Cuba endure daily.
MCUD and SOS Justice consider the spread of these affirmations
irresponsible because they are unfounded assertions and with them
reality is ignored. Whoever proclaims them is lost in the sea of
speculations and runs aground in the port of errors. They deny the
reality that is clearly evident for other Cubans. Simple logic indicates
that whoever denies this reality, if they cannot see it by limitations
in the way that they analyze the problem,
do not deserve support nor our confidence thus we recommend aiming
solidarity and funds for those opponents and associations that apply or
plan to use effective methods for the battle. These vague speculations
and projects distract us from the main objective to free us from the
oppressor.
With some statistical examples, which anyone can easily access simply by
looking for them in that technological apparatus called the Internet,
can be verified that the last gasp of the Cuban communist regime only
exist in the imagination of some compatriots who erroneously tie the
totalitarian system with the person of Fidel Castro, creating the false
analogy that on a par the communist regime ages with its main leader.
This sophism unravels with historical facts because after the death of
Lenin, Communism continued its
course in the USSR with Stalin, Kruchev, Breznied, Andropov and other
disastrous directors of terror.
The communist party of Cuba continues to infiltrate the Cuban society in
the island and in exile as well as the opposition and the independent
media. It even receives considerable economic aid from Hugo Chávez and
his government and from organizations like the United Nations. It grants
scholarships to citizens of diverse countries like the United States of
America, Venezuela and Angola just to name a few, also donates
hospitals, gives medical and educational aid, all in exchange for
ideological solidarity. The procedures of penetration of the minds and
espionage have been perfected by the Cuban Communists to the end of
which not even the Pentagon has been left unscathed.
Can Fidel Castro, that dribbling old man of incoherent speeches,
accomplish these tasks by himself? Logical thinking dictates not,
because it is not possible for a single individual to carry out such
malignant work. We are faced with more than a million communist
militants well trained and followed by national and international
accomplices.
Another one of the unfounded hypotheses presents that a possible
solution to the Cuban problem assumes that: "More tourism in Cuba would
open a window into democracy". With the tables one and two (Chart I -
II) MCUD and SOS Justice will demonstrate that along with tourism the
income of the dictatorship has increased with the visit of almost 20
million tourists in eleven years and has not contributed anything to the
freedom of the
oppressed people nor to respecting their human rights.
Can anyone present point out what contributions have those 20 million
tourists made to freedom or democracy in Cuba when the news of police
repressions of the population, the independent press, and the opposition
increase incessantly? The main contributions that come form tourism is
the gains that the regime obtains?
Who asks the American government to lift the commercial embargo (that by
the way every day obstructs less) should be the question. 20 million
North American tourists would have reached the quota of freedom and
democracy that were not obtained by European, Canadian, Mexican and
Japanese tourists that visited Cuba in the last 11 years?
With certainty we can formulate that: More tourism = More dollars for
the dictatorship = More police and resources to repress basic liberties
= More oppression for the Cuban people. The recent repressive acts
irrefutably confirm that the members of the incipient Cuban civil
society have been immobilized by the Castro repression and therefore do
not properly prosper from the opposition with methods such as the
collections of signature, the calls for public opinion, the proposals to
change the oppressor himself, the presentation of denunciations in
international forums without jurisdiction to penalize the criminals whom
usurp the power in Cuba, nor any other methods of battle not confirmed
by History.
There is another hypothesis that from the MCUD and SOS Justice point of
view restrains the development of our fight for freedom. It is the
unfounded idea that in circumstances of totalitarian oppression it is
possible to develop the civil society sufficiently to be able to change
the ominous scene present in Cuba. This supposition has been accepted by
organizations that provide funds for the promotion of democracy, its
pillars and ethical
values. This hypothesis confuses compatriots in the island and in exile.
Also, it creates false expectations with the usual frustration that
entails that erroneous procedure. There is no other option than the use
of force, in its violent or non-violent form, or the combination of
both, to obtain the liberation of the oppressed Cuban people. Therefore,
SOS Justice and the MCUD consider the funds destined to sustain the
hypothesis of the
development of the civil society in conditions of totalitarianism is
money going into torn pockets, is money lost, is money that is not
available for contributors with tens of necessities that go unfulfilled.
Those that provide these funds should at least demand methods of
fighting with defined and viable plans. Without the use of force neither
United States of America nor Germany would exist today. Without the use
of non-violent force, today it would not be a reality that American
blacks would have the same rights as
the whites, nor the Polish Solidarity Union would have put the communist
regime in check.
Another erroneous idea, from the SOS Justice and the MCUD point of view,
is that providing information through radio transmitters and television
to the oppressed people of Cuba it is expected that a people uprooted by
oppression would mobilize and take action against their oppressors. But,
although the information is necessary in all cases, it is not enough by
itself to break the totalitarian chokehold. Neither cultural exchanges,
nor academic events nor sport matches nor tourism have any effect on
achieving freedom. Only strong operations will push the arbitrary system
imposed by the Communists until they are removed from power
indefinitely. Let us remember that no criminal stops his actions of
their own free will. The communist party of Cuba is no exception to this
norm dictated by common sense.
The diffusion of news to Cuba, the independent media, the developing
independent unions, the very small independent libraries, the meetings
of dissidents, the writing of political proclamations and programs for
future democracy, the telephone calls, the fax equipment, the electronic
mails and the hall computers of the SINA are useful tools for the cause
but none of them constitutes a method of fighting. MCUD and SOS Justice
stress that only violent force; non-violent force or the combination of
both is the liberating procedure scientifically confirmed by History. We
stress that any other way is based on speculation, and to speculate
leads to error almost every time. There has been such an accumulation of
horror in our Mother country since 1959 that we can no longer allow any
more mistakes.
Also, there are some who propose, "to de-americanize" the Cuban problem
while at the same time they plead paradoxically for the
"Europeanization” of the same. Speeches and word games are in excess in
our cause, what we need is real unity, plans, funds and directors
capable to take them to effect.
All requests for change to the regime of the PCC have been in vain. In
1988 the Party Pro Human rights of Cuba that today is affiliated with
the Foundation Andrei Sajarov formulated the first request for a
referendum from the Communists government. It gathered signatures from
the population in support of that initiative but the answer of the
oppressors was more police repression. Similarly today they repress
those who insist on that procedure that our recent History confirms as
inutile.(THE PROJECT VARELA SOLICITS THE SAME AND THE ANSWER HAS BEEN
DOUBLY ADVERSE: REPRESSION AND NEW MODIFICATION OF THE ILLEGAL
CONSTITUTION SEALING THE SUPPOSED LEGAL METHOD FOR THE PEOPLE TO
IMPLEMENT CHANGE).
Without the use of violent or non-violent force, or a combination of
both procedures, arbitrary systems are not removed. What would have
happened with Iraq if instead of overthrowing its oppressors we would
have peacefully asked for a referendum, or asked them to have made
democratic changes? The answer is obvious: the oppressed would continue
being victims of the oppressors as it continues to happen in our Mother
country since 1959.
Any plan for the future of Cuba whose first step is not the total
liberation of the oppressed people (that is the overthrow of the
arbitrary political, social and economic order imposed violently by the
PCC) is morally unacceptable. Implementing such a plan will disturb the
peace, prevent the restoration of the new republic and prevent the
pillars of democracy from rising in our Mother country. Observing Europe
we can see the negative
consequences of recycling the Communists.
We do not have to be afraid nor to as much feel shame when pleading for
the overthrow of the injustice in Cuba because science as well as
practice indicate that without the use of force there is no possibility
of obtaining progress as far as obtaining the total liberation of the
oppressed people and true justice. This formula also prevails for Cuba.
Therefore, we must base our democratic plans on common sense and the
experience that History
has to offer. It is not enough to wish for the end of the Communists
terror!
We must unite; those in the island and in exile, to use the methods of
battle capable to demolish the oppressive system that has diminish our
human dignity for almost half century!
Source:
Semanario a Fondo
May 5, 2006
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