The Anti-Cuban Cubans

A number of years ago, I published an article in Miami’s El Nuevo Herald referring to the Cuban right-wing expatriates which said that they had started to hate the revolutionary government regime in Havana, and in relation, Cuba and its people. I am clearly bordering on pedantry by citing my own work after seeing that few things have changed regarding that issue in the last two years. The right-wing sector of the self-proclaimed group of Cuban exiles is not against the communist ideals; simply stated, it is against all of Cuba. There are several examples that are sufficient enough to confirm this truth. By saying this, I do not mean to attack those “exiled” Cubans who live primarily in the United States and Spain.

Everyone supports the U.S.’s aggressive policies toward Cuba and backs the removal of American troops off the island, despite the fact that many of the supporters’ countries have been shelled by the same government, such as in the cases of Iraq and what is now occurring in Libya. They even support the American embargo on Cuba, which in many cases has hindered the Cuban Government’s ability to furnish proper medical equipment necessary for saving the lives of its citizens.

When the national baseball team or any other Cuban sports team competes in other countries, those in exile yell at the top of their lungs their desire for the Cuban teams to be defeated. When Cuban artists go to the U.S. to perform, the self-proclaimed exiles criticize and accuse the American government for handing them the visas that allowed them to enter the island. When they can, they protest right where the artists perform.

They have this visceral distaste for Hugo Chávez and the Venezuelan government because they comply with the agreements for the stable supply of oil that the Cuban populace needs to survive. They applauded and supported Pedro Carmona Estanga (known as Pedro “el Breve”, “the brief” in Spanish) — the sad political figure that briefly assumed the Venezuelan Presidency shortly after an attempted coup d’état against Chávez — for having cut, as his first presidential decision, the oil supply to the island.

They rejoice when any weather phenomenon destroys Cuban properties and island dwellings. They are doing whatever possible to pressure their governments to block foreign companies from drilling for oil in zones under Cuban control in the Gulf of Mexico and thus, liberate the country from an oil dependence.

They vehemently support the politics of the European Union Common Position toward the island. They succeeded in forcing the George H. W. Bush Administration to sign the Torricelli Act and pushing Bill Clinton to do the same with the Helms-Burton Act, both of which served to further tighten the criminal actions that were stifling the Cuban people in the moments that the country had lost its main commercial partner during a grave social and economic crisis.

They want the U.S. to suspend family air travel to Cuba. They forced Bush, Jr. to essentially redefine family ties while stopping Cubans from going back to the island to see a cousin or an uncle — affirming that these links are not close family members; on top of that, they could only see their mother, father, or sibling once every three years. So much so that in many cases the Cuban authorities gave them a choice: to see their parents either in a hospital bed or in a funeral home, in the event of a serious illness. They succeeded in changing regulations so that those flying to Cuba could only bring $300 or less to their relatives on the island. They look for doctors who wish to defect to other parts of the world under the pretext of humanitarian missionary work by offering them visas to enter the United States.

I believe that these are enough examples to show the evil intent of these individuals who spend their lives wishing for the liberty and democratic revolution of the island with little actual intent when what they really want, and have worked hard to do, is sink the Cuban people into further misery and hunger. They are truly annexationists, seeing that they want Cuba to become a mere colony of the United States.

They hate Cuba and the Cuban people. Because of that, they should not be offended when they are accused of being anti-Cuban, because that is what they are — anti-Cuban.