![]() Some need to be purer than the rest, more upright. And that radicalism is sometimes the result of legitimate pain, but at other times only a symptom of opportunism. The playwright René Ariza closes the documentary Improper Conduct by saying: “You have to watch out for the Castro that everyone has inside.” The greatest challenge that we Cubans face is not only to overthrow a despicable dictatorship, but to know how to build tomorrow a democratic country, truly free, without dogmas.Įvery cause runs the risk of being absorbed by its most radical wing. ![]() The worst thing that could happen to those of us who oppose fundamentalism would be to end up reproducing their methods. Anyone who dared to depart from the dogma was accused of being an “accomplice” of the historical enemy, a CIA agent or a mercenary in the service of the empire. To raise the flags of intolerance, they always used the excuse of the besieged fortress. They shot and put thousands of adversaries behind bars, locked others in concentration camps, ostracized hundreds of artists and intellectuals, and pushed almost a quarter of the population into forced exile. (Cuban State TV Roundtable program)ġ4ymedio, Yunior García Aguilera, Madrid, - The Cuban dictatorship has practiced for decades the exclusion and extermination of anyone who thinks differently. ![]() ![]() “WE ARE FIDEL” – The greatest challenge that we Cubans face is not only to overthrow a despicable dictatorship, but to know how to build a democratic country tomorrow, truly free, without dogmas. ![]()
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