Article 53 of the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba,
related below, is fictitious. Any similarity to other democratic and respected
in real life Constitutions, is entirely coincidental and unintentional:
Article 53: Citizens
have freedom of speech and of the press in keeping with the objectives of
socialist society. Material conditions for the exercise of that right are
provided by the fact that the press, radio, television, cinema, and other mass
media are state or social property and can never be private property. This
assures their use at exclusive service of the working people and in the
interests of society. The law regulated the exercise of those freedoms.
The Castros could not be
more cynical with the wording of this right, both in Cuba and in the rest of
the world all know that it is an unscrupulous and manipulated lie. Freedom of
speech and press in Cuba has been hijacked by Castros' dictatorship at exclusive service of their unique Communist Party. No one may
be interested in publishing the problems of the Cuban people; and much less to speak
out in favor of socio political demands. In Cuban press only the costly pretended Castros' achievements
may be exalted and revered to power Castros' ego. No one can, without being repressed, comment on the high living standards
of the Cuban leaders and their families, with their private good houses and
cars; or criticize the miserable wages averaging $ 20 per month; or the depressing
and unstable basic food basket, and the excessive prohibitions and restrictions
of all kinds, which until recently Fidel imposed the Cubans. Nor you can not
talk about human rights violations, lack of basic freedoms, political
repression, the exodus of about 20% of the Cuban population to other countries,
facing the proven inability of socialism to ensure a decent life for the
citizens. Nobody can express himself verbally or in writing about the
manipulated fraud of Castros' International Solidarity, revealing its true
essence today in Venezuela; and even less to talk of the tight kidnapping of
national and international information, repression of any form of dissent and
opposition; as well as the establishment of double standard as a
basic principle of coexistence in Cuban socialist society. Cubans all look
forward to and hope in the immediate future, with internet ensuring genuine
freedom of speech for all; against which the Castros are only left to hinder
unsuccessfully before falling defeated thanks to the intellectual and scientific
development of the free and democratic world. To be continued...
