The terrible repression unleashed by the communist tyranny against Cubans who ask for freedom, food and medicine has only one virtue: that of portraying all the wretched on the planet.

Nothing can be expected from those who, from the comfortable enjoyment of living conditions in liberal democracy, allow themselves to continue criticizing "imperialism" and "the blockade" so as not to wake up from their adolescent dream of revolutionary romanticism, which failed decades ago between rivers. of blood and helmet

wall tees.

We do not expect anything from those hostages of imposture and fanaticism.

But

Much more is expected from the Government of Spain as an institution than an incomprehensible refusal to condemn the Cuban dictatorship

-while Camila Acosta, among many other detainees, faces prosecution in Castro's courts for practicing journalism for ABC- and a tepid statement that read like this yesterday: “Spain, as an Ibero-American country, follows with great interest and very closely the situation in Cuba, after the events registered, and he is waiting to see how it evolves ».

"Watch with interest", "situation", "recorded events", "on the lookout"?

There is no room for more shameful euphemisms in fewer words.

José Manuel Albares, the new Foreign Minister, added in a tweet his support for the right to demonstrate - there would be more to do - and wished for Acosta's release.

But neither he nor Isabel Rodríguez, a flaming government spokesperson, have wanted to condemn the Cuban repression as they would undoubtedly have done in the face of an abuse of human rights carried out by an illiberal right-wing regime.

Rather,

the effort to modulate the language so as not to inconvenience its philocastrian partners of Podemos

It has caused disappointment among Spaniards - on the left and on the right: Democrats above all - who see how their representatives in power temporize with a dictatorship that has been turning Cuba into a floating prison for six decades. Spain's centuries-old ties with the island delegitimize any temptation to keep a low profile in the face of this crisis. And the EU always looks to Spain when it comes to establishing a position in Latin America. But for that you have to want to exercise that international leadership. And the Spanish Government, in whose bosom there are confessed communists - which constitutes a tribute to the sad tradition of Spanish exceptionality - does not want to.

Cuba is the Berlin Wall of the 21st century.

The Latin American Iron Curtain.

Castroism exports totalitarian ideology to the rest of the continent.

It trains spies and government militias that monitor and repress Venezuelans and Nicaraguans.

He is the mastermind of the Bolivarian axis that is gaining ground to democracy throughout the continent.

The international democratic community cannot look the other way.

The United States and the EU must clearly and effectively support the Cuban people's cry for freedom.

And Spain must abandon the petty calculation to which the extremist mortgages of the coalition tie it.

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