Obama Tries to Put a New Collar on the Same Dog

Obama Tries to Put a New Collar on the Same Dog / Angel Santiesteban
Posted on April 21, 2015

Angel Satiesteban,16 April 2015 — The biggest problem confronting the
Castro brothers' government is to accept the new challenges posed by the
21st century.

They thought they would arrive at the Summit in Panama and turn it into
their show, but the times taught them the truth: the world, the venues,
words, belong to everyone. So of course the entourage of sycophants that
had been sent obeyed the order to retreat, left the forum, and hid,
because really they had no defense in the face of the nonsense that
characterizes the dictatorship. They can no longer fool the world,
though they continue to practice extortion, and hire acolytes who, as a
matter of survival, accept and pretend to support the totalitarian regime.

Many of those I saw on television participating in the carnival, the
circus of the Communists outside Panama Hotel, I know very well and I
still can listen to their words of rejection and fear of the system in
Cuba. But such a fear does not allow them to tell the truth of their sad
souls; many others are afraid to be ignored by the institutions
controlled and manipulated by the government, knowing it is the only way
to live as artists because their poor creations would not survive in the
real world.

I managed to see many of those who said they were not interested in
politics and would not serve in the chorus in favor or against because
it "wasn't their way" — they used to repeat to me — and they were really
far away from the first line of the confrontation.

If they accepted it is because I don't know of any intellectuals or
professionals who would refuse the chance to travel. Sometimes they
don't even ask about the destination, in order to travel outside the
island they would accept to visit to hell. Even more so, when it comes
to being a part of an official delegation, which receives an allowance
before leaving for their daily expenses, plus the hotel and food.
Something like this is not dismissed no matter how humiliating it could
be, according to the cynicism with which it is accepted.

Of course, they will try to fashion a victory out of defeat, and will
begin, like a soap opera, to fabricate the episodes.

Obama is trying to put a new collar on the same dog.

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