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Gerardo, You Are No More Cuban Than I Am
HAVANA TIMES — Gerardo Hernandez, National Coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), had no qualms this week about calling compatriots who want change in this country—by whatever means—less Cuban.
From his official position, he brazenly declared that any foreigner who supports the dictatorship is more Cuban than those who advocate for Cuba’s freedom, even if that implies a violent outcome.
“So-called Cubans,” the former Cuban Five spy called those who favor radical change on the Island, and then he dared to say that foreigners who support the Revolution “are more Cuban than they are,” in order to ingratiate himself with participants at the International Colloquium Patria con Fidel, who were listening to him.
“While some so-called Cubans are asking for catastrophe and pain and suffering and death for their people, you, who are more Cuban at heart than they are, are here with us accompanying the Cuban Revolution,” he told those naïve people who seek to create a global propaganda front in support of a tyranny of which they only know what it chooses to show them.
He also posted a reel on Facebook this week showing Cubans dancing in the street after the official event marking the 65th anniversary of the proclamation of the socialist character of the Revolution, held at the corner of 23rd and 12th Streets in Vedado, Havana, and presided over by Miguel Diaz-Canel.
With that, he intended to prove that participants do not attend the regime’s political events under coercion.
Showing the incoherence of the people does not dignify them—quite the opposite. In a nation where there is hardly any........