US President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro agreed to normalize
the relationship in December but there is nothing to ensure a smooth process.
The 50-year period of conflicts and mutual claims cannot be simply forgotten.
The deep rooted mistrust of the Cuban leadership towards the United States is hard
to overcome. There is a growing conviction in Havana that the imperialist enemy
will not miss an opportunity to deliver a deadly strike against the country of
victorious socialism. This point of view is permanently set in the mindset of
veteran revolutionaries who have determined the strategy of the country’s
development. The same applies to the pragmatic generation of Communist leaders
who have launched the process of gradual political and economic
modernization.
Cuba is resolved to maintain its independence and protect the gains of the
revolution. The people support the reforms, including the democratization of
political and social life. It’s important to define the pace of changes and
create economic basis for improving living conditions of common people.
Washington is not interested in the evolutionary pattern of Cuba’s development.
Paul Craig Roberts, a well-known US economist and politician, expressed the
opinion that Obama will turn the US embassy in Havana into an instrument used
to implement his hostile intentions. The United States will use the
non-government organizations for inciting street protests like it was done in
Ukraine. There are a growing number of posts to Twitter saying that, no matter
the White House sounds soft on Cuba, the US special services are concentrated
on organizing Cuban Maidan demonstrations. The protests could be even more
radical. Anti-Cuban subversive centers function in the US, Canada and Europe
dissipating information about «luxurious life» of Cuban high standing Communist
Party functionaries and government officials isolated from common people. The
information on corruption in the ranks of state and party officials is an
important aspect of the non-government organizations under the control of US
special services. Their mission is to undermine stability, law and order in
Cuba. Normally the corruption fighters use the materials fabricated by the US
Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency.
Since a long time ago the US mission in Havana has been involved in the
activities aimed at establishing non-government organizations, including training
of «young opposition» and their introduction to the methods used for staging
«color revolutions». American diplomats seldom openly call for the fight
against the «Castro regime». Instead they display great fervor making comments
on the chosen episodes of documentary films devoted to «color revolutions» and
overthrow of tyrants and dictators! They provide deep insight into the
activities conducted by young activists of protest movements in other
countries. They admire their readiness for self-sacrifice pursuing the ideas of
democracy and humanism embodied in America! Yoani Sanchez has been spreading
anti-government information with a hostile intent for a number of years. Her
success evokes envy in the ranks of dissidents: she gets well paid and is often
invited to make foreign trips. As a human rights activist, Yoani receives
prestigious awards. It is said she may be nominated for Nobel Peace Prize. And
she has followers.
Immediately after the scandalous relationship between Sanchez and the CIA
was revealed to become public domain, new opposition activists took the
positions at the front line of struggle against «the dictatorship of Castro
brothers», especially Eliecer Ávila. He attracted the attention of anti-Cuban
subversive centers in 2008 when he asked some Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, the
President of the National Assembly of People’s Power, a few sharp questions
about the freedom of press, direct access to Internet and the weak points of
the Cuba’s election system. Alarcon answered candidly and adduced solid
arguments. That was it, so it seemed to be then, but somebody made a video
recording of the meeting. The fragment with the recorded event and the curious
student asking hot questions was shown in American TV programs devoted to Cuba,
as well as European TV channels. All of a sudden Eliecer Ávila became
famous.
A simple peasant from province who received higher education in Cuba (he
received a degree in information technology) became known. It made his head go
round. Then the same pattern as in the case of Yoani Sanchez was used to get
him into public spotlight. Western media outlets paint him as a competent
expert on Cuba, a potential political leader able to form and lead a political
organization (and do it pretty soon) which could take the place of incumbent
Communist Party. CIA sponsors arranged a foreign trip for him (Sweden, the
Czech Republic, Poland, France, Spain, the United States and other places) so
that he could know what real democracies are like. During the tour they held
discussions to shape his opinion on the formation of new party. At present one
can only guess what is in store for Ávila and what his political career path
would be like. Ill-wishers spread the rumors among dissidents that Ávila
collaborates with the Cuban counter-intelligence. That’s why he is so passive
when it comes to opposing the regime.
There are around twenty-thirty non-government organizations operating in
Cuba. One way or another, they coordinate their activities with the United
States Interests Section of the Embassy of Switzerland in Havana. The Ladies in
White (Las Damas de Blanco) is the best known organization which stages
protests against «the Castro regime» and the politically motivated
imprisonments. There are 53 people imprisoned in Cuba for political reasons,
according to the US State Department’s list. In the given case the word
«political» has a rather dubious meaning. At that the Cuban government started
to release the prisoners in accordance with the agreement concluded with
President Obama. One can tell a lot about the sophisticated operations of US
special services in Cuba.
The USAID activities among young music fans, especially rappers, are a good
example. They used front organizations to promote the band called Los Aldeanos.
Other musicians were invited to join in. They planned to organize a festival as
a way to spread around «fresh ideas». The «rap operation» was conducted along
with other subversive activities. For instance, USAID launched the project
ZunZuneo, a Cuban Twitter, calling for political struggle against the
government. At the same Cuban tours were organized for the young people coming
from other Latin America countries so that they could instigate their Cuban
contemporaries to anti-government uprisings.
By Nil NIKANDROV (taken from: http://www.strategic-culture.org/)
