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Message from René González
• DEAR compatriots
Friends from around the world:
Once again, the judicial mask of
the most hypocritical society ever has slipped,
revealing the true face of U.S. imperialism and
dealing a harsh blow to the conscience of the world
with a cynical message: it will not be its own laws
that prevent it guaranteeing impunity for its
terrorists.
It hasn’t taken us long to
understand what the word “change” means in U.S.
establishment slang, at least in the case of Cuba.
The tangle of crimes, genocides, arrogance and vile
acts upon which the psyche of this empire has been
woven will not be unraveled by the election of a
charismatic president, opportunely plucked from a
still-oppressed sector of the U.S. population. For
us five, subjected to more than a decade of base and
cowardly cruelty, this is nothing more than the
repetition of a familiar moral: no matter to what
depth our captors stoop, they will always be able to
show us their infinite capacity to sink still
further.
For ourselves and for our
families, it is now already too late to receive
justice. The same goes for decimated indigenous
communities; for those countries whose territories
have been usurped; for the millions of human beings
who have been incinerated alive by incendiary bombs;
or “disappeared” by dictatorial accomplices; or
tortured thanks to the advice of Yankee
officials; or massacred around the world as a result
of corporate appetites. It is too late to bring
justice to the thousands of victims of anti-Cuba
terrorism; the prevention of which is our
unpardonable crime.
Faced with these millions of
victims; innocent children of all ages; citizens of
all races and creeds transformed – in the most
dissimilar and ordinary circumstances -- into
collateral damage; human beings denied the basic
human right of living safely in their own homes, in
the heart of their families or abruptly uprooted
without warning from their daily lives; we five are
the fortunate ones. We are five soldiers, conscious
and proud occupants of a trench, having chosen to
rise up for something rather than dying for nothing,
a living mirror of the morale of a people in which
the enemy sees itself reflected, filled with
impotence and rage, its lack of values, its poverty
of spirit, the fragility of its self-image and all
of its miseries. We are five revolutionary Cubans
that they will never be able to crush, and they will
have to live every day with the humiliation of being
incapable of understanding why.
For the peoples of the world, the
audacity of this process is the reiteration of an
old lesson: we are facing an empire that will never
make amends for any crime.
It will only calculate how it can
get away with what it wants. No ethical
considerations or universal clamor can detain it,
only the price imposed on it by resistance.
For the people of Cuba, to whom
this new act of revenge is directed, this is another
call to close ranks, not to believe in appearances,
to always expect the worst from the aggressor, and
never to cease in the construction of a society in
which the hypocrisy, revanchism, indignity, lies and
cowardliness that propelled a trial like ours are
far from being, as is the case with the neighboring
empire, citizens’ virtues.
That will be the only measure of
justice worthy of all of its victims.
Hasta la Victoria Siempre.
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