By Arleen Rodriguez Derivet on September 9, 2022
Today we talk about billboards, labels, and words that want to impose: like Failed state, for example.
The label came out of the laboratory from where others of similar purpose like “dictator” and others so rude that we cannot repeat them here.
It is all part of the arsenal of words in the discourse against the Cuban Revolution. In the case of the failed state, as Bárbara Betancourt recalls, it has been used before to qualify states that, in the name of their supposed failure, were invaded, occupied, say Iraq or Libya, states that, by the way, functioned perfectly well before being invaded and occupied. After they overthrew their governments and turned their societies into chaos, no one disputes the term.
Reinier Duardo, for his part, qualified the term as a new battle horse in the anti-Cuban litany, although he clarified that it is not a creation of simple haters in networks but of their bosses. It was premiered for Cuba by none other than Joe Biden in July 2021, after the acts of vandalism and the arrest and sanctions to those who carried it out.
The label emerges from the laboratories of psychological warfare, from where it goes straight to the mouth of President Biden. Then, in Florida, the pawns of that war repeat it like parrots.
The Secretary of Organization of the Party, Roberto Morales, strongly countered it last week at the event in Cienfuegos.
And sometimes one says: it is better not to respond because you give promotion to the attackers, but this is not the invention of a hater in networks. They are media laboratory labels that seek to establish matrices of opinion and policies of more sanctions and punishments that are intended to be universalized. Some of them have said it, openly, without any shame.
Quoting Morales, Duardo wondered how it is possible to accuse an abusively blockaded Cuba of being a failed state, from the most powerful country in the world which, nevertheless, had the record number of deaths due to Covid19. How can an empire that sees its youth lost to a lethal epidemic of opiates, i.e. drugs, and that helplessly witnesses the massive sale of bulletproof backpacks for elementary schools, pretend to disqualify the Cuba that restarted its course with new careers and airs of national celebration?
What would be the failed state here?
In the podcast we hear the voices of Marco Rubio and then his alter ego, Otaola, whose accusations against the Biden administration, for purely electoral reasons in this case, paint a picture of a truly failed state in the United States. Republicans blame the Democrats for the state of affairs in the richest country in the world, as if the ills started four years ago. As if they were not part of the system, problems that do not change like the parties that alternate in power every four years. On the contrary, they get worse.
It has been well said that there is nothing more like a Democrat than a Republican, Morales quoting Fidel, to point out that if proof was lacking there is Biden going against his own campaign statements, the policy that he criticized Trump so much in relation to Cuba.
He also calls attention to the number of failed states that appear every day with the costly political mistake of the United States in stirring up war, provoking Russia and sending billions to Ukraine, but not in food or blankets, but in weapons, and wanting Europe to disconnect from Russian gas, even if it freezes to death in winter. From what we are seeing, it has only managed to further complicate the already complicated picture left by the pandemic.
Returning to the label of failed state, which is being exalted as a success of the anti-Cuban campaign on Twitter (because many revolutionaries have used it from Cuba to respond to its promoters), the best response was the act of Cienfuegos. It showed that Cuba is not afraid of the issue, nor does it run away from it, as it does not run away from any problem in the country.
The arguments are there for all to see. A failed state would not have survived 63 years of siege and 243 additional measures; it would not have saved its people from a pandemic with its own health actions and vaccines; it could not have articulated all the forces to face the tremendous challenges it faces, be they fatal accidents or the product of an accumulation of problems caused in the first place by the blockade.
A state that assumes its responsibility in the search for solutions to the country’s problems, whether today or 20 years ago, thanks to the fact that it is not a state of politicians who only attack problems when they pursue electoral purposes.
The current Cuban state does not go against those who preceded it in the task. It honors the common work and continues to lift it up, against all odds, aware that the main problem, the blockade, will finally be defeated one day. But not because of the will of those who apply it, but because of those who manage to jump over the fence and defeat it.
We continue to clap our hands.
Source: Cuba en Resumen
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