When a country has been governed for generations by men who do not know how to command without a rifle, politics stops being a pact and becomes loot. There is no law where the gun rules, nor a republic where fear is customary. Cuba did not fall by mistake: it was taken, administered and preserved as a besieged place.
They have tried to convince us that the problem is one of ideas, of discourses, of nuances. It is invited to dialogue with those who have never dialogued, to the persuasion of those who only understand obedience, to waiting in the face of those who have made crushing their method. That invitation is not noble: it is suicidal.
because the power that is born armed does not retire with words.
because tyranny does not dissolve: it is disarmed.
For too long prudence has been confused with cowardice, and reconciliation with renunciation. There is talk of transition as if the executioner could become an arbiter, as if someone who has lived from fear suddenly accepted the law that he never respected. There is no example in history that sustains that illusion.
When the state becomes a barracks, the nation is held hostage. and a hostage does not negotiate his freedom: he waits to be released.
Therefore, any solution that excludes decisive international intervention is a pious fantasy. It is not about punishing a people or humiliating anyone, but about dismantling an armed apparatus that has turned violence into a political tradition. As long as that structure preserves rifles, hierarchies and obediences, any change will be just a variation of the same abuse.
The intervention would not be a humiliation, but rather a historic surgery. He would not come to govern consciences, but rather to remove crime from its main tool. It would not come to impose a culture, but to prevent armed barbarism from being imposed again as a political culture.
but releasing is not enough. Whoever withdraws the force that restrained the executioner and then abandons the victim, condemns him to repeat his trauma.
Cuba cannot be “liberated” and then returned to its old temptation of the strong man, of the armed redeemer, of the leader who promises order in exchange for obedience. Therefore, the prolonged presence of the United States would not be child guardianship, but rather a cordon sanitaire against relapse. not occupation, but guarantee. not domination, but limit.
Full integration would not be the denial of Cuba, but rather its definitive rescue:
the certainty that no faction, no internal army, no exalted leadership or no organized majority will be able to take power again by force. the security that the law will never depend on the loudest shout or the nearest weapon.
The true republic is not born of resentment or revenge, but of the limit. and the first limit that must be imposed is this: no one governs Cuba with rifles again.
but there is an even more uncomfortable truth that must be said clearly.
You cannot continue sacrificing an entire people for fear of powers on the other side of the Atlantic. it’s not fair. It is not ethical. It is not moral. and is not consistent with any serious discourse on freedom.
For decades, Cuba has been treated like a chess piece on a global board: tolerated as a tyranny to avoid major friction, frozen as a problem so as not to alter strategic balances, abandoned as a people so as not to provoke third parties. This calculation may be understandable in the cold logic of geopolitics, but it is indefensible in the logic of justice.
There is no moral principle that authorizes condemning entire generations to hunger, fear and prison so as not to inconvenience distant powers. There is no strategic reason that excuses turning a people into a permanent currency of exchange. When international stability is bought with sustained human suffering, that stability is corruption, not order.
If the fear is to escalate conflicts, the question is this: why is the escalation always paid by the Cuban?
If fear is about opening precedents, why is the tolerated precedent that of eternal tyranny?
If the concern is global balance, why does that balance require Cuba to be a perpetual exception to freedom?
The refusal to act has not brought peace: it has brought chronicification of the abuse. It has not avoided conflicts: it has consolidated a dictatorship. It has not protected lives: it has normalized its silent wear and tear.
This must be said respectfully, but firmly: the United States is also responsible for the Cuban tragedy. by action and by omission. for managing the issue instead of closing it. for having accepted, for too long, that an entire town pays the price for other people’s fears.
It is not about accusing out of resentment, but about assuming historical responsibility. It is not about blaming, but about correcting.
and along with this omission, there is another abuse that must end.
Don’t ask the Cuban people for more streets.
A sick, hungry, watched people, distrusted by decades of betrayals, do not rise: they survive. Demanding daily heroism from those who can barely sustain life is not political courage: it is comfortable cruelty. It is transferring the responsibility to the victim so as not to assume it from power.
stop prolonging the deception.
Stop asking for sacrifices that you do not pay.
Stop calling cowardice what is historical exhaustion.
The Cuban people do not need to be asked for more blood, more jail, more exemplary deaths. It needs men with a voice and power to ask for a real way out.
what is the fear?
what are you afraid of?
What do you want to preserve: diplomatic comfort, the prudent story, the eternal wait?
because while they ask for “more street”, the executioner remains intact, armed, organized. and each empty call does not accelerate freedom: it delays it.
That is why the responsibility of exile reappears.
The Cuban exile in the United States has a force that it has not known how to use because it has fragmented it. Dispersed in acronyms, in tiny leaderships, in vanities that compete for microphones, he has spoken a lot and has said little. a divided exile does not persuade: it neutralizes itself.
It is not enough to report. It is not enough to remember. It is not enough to survive outside while the country suffocates inside. Exile that does not become clear political will ends up being just memory without consequence.
The time has come for a single voice, clear and precise. not a multitude of slogans, but a unanimous demand:
decisive international intervention,
total disarmament of the repressive apparatus,
prolonged presence that prevents the return of armed power,
and full integration as a definitive guarantee against historical repetition.
When the weapon stops ruling, the citizen learns to speak.
When fear retreats, the country breathes.
When force submits to law, the nation begins.
It’s not about hate. It’s about ending sacrifice.
It’s not about revenge. It is about closing a historical tragedy.
There are people who are not saved with slogans, but with irreversible decisions. and Cuba’s irreversible decision is this: not to continue being sacrificed for other people’s fears, not to continue being used, not to continue being an exception.
That is the peace that is not negotiated.
that is the freedom that does not ask permission.
