The curtains of foolishness
- Written by Ania Fernández Torres
- Published in Opinion
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At the Art Museum of the Americas, of the discredited Organization of American States (OAS) from October 27 to November 14, the “non-profit organization” called Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) presents a photo exhibit on the "cruel reality in which ordinary citizens in Venezuela and Cuba live."
It will never come out to the public arena the onfrontations between the Chilean government and the indigenous people in these estates, when the president Sebastián Piñera announced last October 12 the total militarization of the Biobío and Araucanía regions, the scene of the Mapuche claim for their ancestral lands.
From the headquarters of the Government, Piñera decreed "State of Constitutional Emergency Exception" and the local media indicated that this decision was taken by the Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Forces of Order and Security in the area. However, it was requested by the most conservative sectors, although the opposition and indigenous movements harshly criticized the measure.
No one speaks or accuses the government of Chile because this measure is backed by Article 42 of its Constitution, which indicates that the President of the Republic has the power to declare “a state of emergency, in the event of a serious disturbance of public order or serious damage to the security of the nation”and only if he wants to extend the decree, he must have the approval of Congress.
Nor does anyone "shake" this man in the face of his alleged participation in the sale of shares in the Dominga mining project in the British Virgin Islands, to avoid paying taxes, according to the now famous Pandora Papers.
A showroom was never opened with toasts and violins to speak on the events of Plaza Baquedano in Santiago de Chile, which was one of the epicenters of the great indignation of Chileans two years ago, nor was the situation illustrated, further of the photos of the Press doing their work near the Palacio de la Moneda, when Fabiola Campilla lost her vision due to the effect of a tear gas during the protests.
But if the matter arises from Cuba or Venezuela, those who have studied the manual of the American political scientist Gene Sharp, which explains the 198 methods to overthrow governments, raise a stage with showy curtains of foolishness and stubbornness in order to maximize the negative, promoting protests and non-cooperation to call the world to look at the scene.
There is nothing new in the current revitalization of the old Morroe Doctrine and the terrible conformation of that false character assumed by the United States of America on Cuba, as if we were still in 1902, as if our laws still had the shackle of the Platt amendment or being a universal gendarme were the messianic destiny of that nation.
The House of Representatives of the United States, with a Democratic majority, recently approved an "initiative" that expresses Washington's "solidarity" with the Cubans detained by the July 11 riots, promoted by Democratic legislator Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, with the support of Republican Mario Díaz-Balart, both representatives from the state of Florida.
In an open and blatant case of interference in the internal affairs of Cuba, this bill will now go to the Senate and then be sent to the White House and the US President Joe Biden must sign it so that it becomes law. While threats of sanctions are already circulating from Washington in view of the prohibition of a march called for November 15, which is unconstitutional in our country.
Both actions are part of the destabilizing strategy, which only applies to certain nations in the area such as Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. However, the Cuban and Latin American emigration organizations that make up the Alianza Martiana in Miami rejected the attempts to subvert the internal order on the island.
The Prensa Latina agency reported just a few days ago that this alliance affirmed that from this North American country, with millions of dollars available, is planned a subversive plot for this November 15, which aims to alter the social order and destroy the political stability of Cuba with the support of wage earners within the Island.
But there are those who believe the theatrical montage because, unfortunately, in some prestigious galleries in America and the world, or in the big media, the photos of our victims, of the revolutionary workers stoned and beaten on July 11, will never appear or the face of Nancy Pavón in Boca de Samá, that of that mother who lost her son in the Barbados crime or any of the thousands of people affected by other attacks of all kinds.
Our struggle, our social project, will never be approached from the point of view of contemporary art, because in the midst of so many deprivations, the pandemic and the blockade, we will never have enough money to finance and maintain “Non-profit organizations” such as VOC, created and financed by the United States Congress under Law 103-199, signed by President William J. Clinton, on December 17, 1993.
