THE CATACOMBS OF THE DISSIDENTS

by: Frank Correa

One of the most grave mistakes committed by the opposers of the socialist regime of Fidel Castro, is not to discuss the internal problems with the proper interest. They think, and is the general idea of almost all the leaders, that to demonstrate the hideousness, or the mistakes, is to play the game of the political police. It only seeks with this dishonest and simple opinion, that the bottom of the sea rises, the effects gains weight, the quality of the struggle crumbles to the ground.

It is happening again, now with a new created situation with the desertions or the abandoning of a command by those who occupied the pro temporary secretary for the Agenda for the transition, institution which agglutinates the mayority of the force, creaters and participants of the dissidents in Cuba, for which so many fighters for human rights see as a guide.

I call as an abandonment the case of Marta Beatriz Roque, her resignation due to health issues is an ambiguous term and lacks seriousness, which she has used in other occasions to leave stalled projects in formation, as in the case of the assembly to promote the Civil Society, and later appears recovered founding a new space which will be cut later on, as in an infinite vicious circle. Also it was a case of abandonment the case of Vladimiro Roca, not in a strategic display as some have the tendency to try an unmask, also tends to abandon other times his companions in projects for the struggle, as All United. The truth is that with his absency, in the darkness with which he tried to maintain and shut during more than one year the Agenda for the Transition, undressed his true character.

Intrigued by these events and for the battle of writings followed by the desertions, which clearly shows the internal war which we have to deal with between the sectors and the important tendencies of the opposition in the island, i diged in to history a little, trying to find arguments which would free me from my doubts.

All the analysis made me come to the same conclusion: the letter that the Liberal Unity of the Republic of Cuba send to the president of the United States, about the utilization of the funds to promote democracy in the island, was the ignition that ignited the bomb.

The insistency so that the letter would not come out to the open by the ex secretaries, even though it was an idea of themselfs and to constitute an agreement of the committee of coordinators, maximum authority of the Agenda, and later the stubborness so that the documents originaly elaborated, signed and send, by them, to president Obama by diplomatic means would not be published, send a suspected sense of infusion.

Other irregularities less typical as sending their resignations to the diplomatic personnel accredited in Cuba, instead of puting it in inmediate view to all those levels of the dissidents which worked subordinated to their commands, puts in doubt which where the real interest, nominated or bastards, who they served.

Full of questions which emerged with such abnormality, i visited the house of the pro temporary secretary of the Agenda for the transition, the acknowledge opposer Fancisco Chaviano González, trying to clear my mind a bit. I asked him what was going to happen, for example, with the organized contest for the Agenda since the month of january, to reward the best work that where demonstrated via to intergrate the civil society to the Agenda for the Transition, convocation which went to various sites in the internet and for sure many participants are waiting the jurors decision, set for April 10, but the new pro temporary secretary does not have any idea what is going to happen with this contest, compromised to pay the prizes dealing in 300, 200 and 100 cuc for the winners. It is said that in the last meeting of the agenda no snacks where served, they had to yank leaves of plants of oranges to make tee and offer it to the member of the committee who where coming from the provinces. The political seriousness of Chavianos possition obligated him to maintain silence, so as not to give details to a news reporter who would not keep his mouth shut and talking nonsense. The political leader would signal me a box carton sealed which was resting on the table, he told me that it was the only thing which was handled to him by the past secretaries. That box was all that remained of the passing of the command.

With a sense of humor he commenced to open the box. I told him maybe its full of money, thousands of dollars, the millions so commented is probably saved in there, and we open it. Proceedings of the meetings, bracelets with the word change and a great amount of disminutive and fragile blank identifications, to accredit it some day to the hundreds of thousands who are part of the Agenda, was all that it contained.

And with this they where planning to remove Fidel? -- I asked Chaviano kind of as a joke -- Later with the mayor solemnity in the world i advised --. Burn all that. We have to start in cero again.

Translator: Eduardo E. Rodríguez Candelario, member of the PULC in Puerto Rico.