By Francisco Acevedo
HAVANA TIMES – The dismissal of Alejandro Gil as Cuba’s Minister of at the beginning of February continues to stir controversy, and although a bit late compared to the buzz on social media, even the ineffable Con Filo program on government TV tackled the issue.
A counterrevolutionary is not only someone who goes against the Revolution, but also someone who, using their position, obtains privileges that the rest of their fellow citizens do not have and then flaunts them, using their influence for personal gain or that of their friends. Such individuals must be immediately denounced, pursued, and annihilated, the TV drivel said, almost in those exact words.
“Opportunism is an enemy of the Revolution and thrives in all places where there is no popular control. All those who, while speaking of Revolution, violate revolutionary morality are not only potential traitors to the Revolution itself, but also its worst detractors,” began this week’s broadcast.
So many truths in such a short time! But so many omissions at the same time, because all of that is evident in all the scum, as none of them live off their salary or under the conditions suffered by the rest of Cubans, and some even flaunt their luxuries, like the relatives of the high-ranking officials, practically all descendants of the Castros.
Obviously, the message does not apply to them; they remain untouchable. Gil was just the pretext to go after, the scapegoat of the moment.
They said that all this happens in places where there is no popular control, but what popular control when the only method that exists are the elections here they are a farce. Likewise, the established mechanisms for control (the Comptroller and Attorney General’s Offices, etc.), cannot even peek, for example, into the offices of GAESA, the company of
