We live in a world in which absurdity abounds, in which the lack of faith and the cult of emptiness grow; in which some people surrender to the stark call of capitalism to every man for himself.
It is astonishing to see how people close to us assume a behavior of denial of reality, despite the fact that they share vicissitudes and deprivations, and are victims -like their fellow citizens- of an aggression that can only be described as brutal, plotted by an external enemy ready to cross all lines.
These fellow citizens not only do not recognize the enemy, but, in a strange mental game, applaud the executioner and revile and mock the victim.
Let's look at what Vedant Patel, deputy spokesman for the State Department, recently said in response to questions posed to him by a journalist after the daily press conference of the U.S. State Department.
He ratified that the White House maintains Cuba on the illegitimate list of State sponsors of terrorism, despite having removed the Island from the list of countries that "do not fully cooperate with anti-terrorist efforts", and argued that "you can be a cooperator in the fight against terrorism, but we still believe that there are actions that are being taken to support terrorist activities".
It sounds like a Sphinx conundrum, but we don't need Oedipus to solve the meaning of the outlandish response. We know the unjustifiable measure of coercion aimed at increasing the policy of maximum pressure against our people. Being considered a State that promotes and finances terrorism is the "turn of the screw" applied by Washington to break the resistance of Cubans.
However, the confession that breaks all the "marks" which, by the way, is something that this government hides, and which is joined by the annexationist claque, the mentally colonized and some of those suffering from severe depersonalization, was the following:
"Moreover, Cuba is still subject to an incredibly complete embargo".
Perhaps the Yankee spokesman wanted to justify his government's action in the face of the pressures of the anti-Cuban mafia in Miami, or the locution escaped him, who knows. Imprisoned in the paradox of a cruel and senseless war, anything can happen.
"Acknowledgement from the parties make discoveries non-essential", the phrase goes, although in this case the evidence of the genocidal policy of the economic, commercial and financial blockade applied by the U.S. Government against Cuba is well known and condemned every year by most of the governments of the world at the UN.
The economic war is there, painful and visible, no matter if the paid charlatans, if the "huge detachments of snakes and jackals, manage to convince many otherwise". It lives as the chimera that stalks the fruit that will never fall into its jaws.
