CARLOS VS CARLOS

CubaNet has published an article written by Julio Aleaga Pesant (independent journalist and professor) about the two paths communists are taking in Cuba that is being fought by reformists like Carlos Lage Dávila and hardliners such as Fidel Castro’s personal assistant Carlos Valenciaga Diaz.

The following is a brief extract from the article that merits a read:

“Far away from dark prison cells and the unpleasant sounds from prisons, amplified by the sound of squawking bars amongst the naked walls and unsupportable level of non existence, there is a strategic re-grouping of communist forces over two fundamental lines: continuity or reform.

Forgetting for a moment the internal skirmishes that have been made public through communication organs and concentrating on one of the biggest revelations of the transition process, communists i n the government have taken a generational difference in launching long term strategies represented by Carlos Lage Dávila who represents reformists and Carlos Valenciaga by the hardliners.

The simplicity of the dispute stems from the same existing polemic at a population level, which intuitively has seen the beginning path to modernization, owing itself to decide the path to take and at which velocity to apply.

If the trembling Carlos Valenciaga Díaz knew to elevate his speech and convert it into a formula for generational compromise between the real leadership of the hardliners, hoarded by Jose Ramon Machado Ventura (Vice-President, Council of State), Jose Ramon Balaguer Cabrera (Minister of Public Health), and Esteban Lazo Hernandez (Vice-President, Council of State), not because of his charisma or popular acceptance, but because of his less aggressive face of those who opt for continuity, and at the same time the lack of grace by Felipe Pérez or Hassan Pérez (who has been out of sight for a long period because of Julio Martínez and the Lage brothers) makes it unthinkable the representation of this wrongly faced and squealing “dictatorship of the proletarian.”

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