14ymedio, Pete García, Miami, 5 June 2025 — “I’ll see you at Unpacu,” Jose Daniel Ferrer told Edmundo García in the middle of a television debate held in the studios of the MEGA TV network, in Miami, in a space led by then journalist and now congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar. In that context, the phrase was an invitation from the first to the second to visit the headquarters of the opposition group, to prove its existence, something García emphatically denied in the program.
Ten years have passed since the event and that phrase, seen in retrospect, could be interpreted not as an offering but a prophecy.
And today the former host of the Cuban Television program De la Gran Escena, a former defender of the regime and an enthusiastic Fidel loyalist, has passed, in his own words, into the opposition camp, and from his YouTube platform he attacks Havana and its rulers day after day.
It is not a strange case, quite the opposite. The individual mentioned above thus goes on to be part of an endless list of those disenchanted with Castroism, a heterogeneous group that includes conscientious objectors and others who, as I suspect is his case, deserted when they stepped on their toes or were discarded after being used.
Some leave through the front door, others through the back. At this point, it doesn’t matter.
If Castroism has been efficient in all these years of folly, it is in producing defenestrated and disappointed people.
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