The death of Oswaldo Payá, and the parliamentary machinations over freedom
to travel, serve only to remind us that the American blockade of Cuba in turn
serves only to attract sympathy to a regime which does not deserve it. Cuba is the
country to which one ought to move if one wants a government which persecutes
homosexuality, and is perhaps most notable as the model for Britain’s impregnable
pseudo-comprehensive schools by means of which the real, but vigorously
self-denying, ruling class perpetuates itself from generation to generation.
Now that there is no longer an Administration
full of people who have never recanted their Trotskyism, President Obama ought
to lift that blockade. He has already shown his indifference towards the Israel
Lobby that so damages American (and Israeli) interests. So he should have no
problem against the anti-American activities of vastly less numerous Cuban
pretend-exiles, who are in fact economic migrants and free to go back any time
they like, and who, far from being conservative, merely wish to restore the
Cuba that existed before 1959, a giant drug den and brothel for the American
super-rich. Hence the refusal of Payá, of his Christian Liberation Movement
and of its Varela Project to have anything to do with them, and their refusal to
have anything to with that Project, or with that Movement, or with Payá.
Payá stands alongside the late Jorge Rossi
Chavarría, sometime Vice-President of Costa Rica, and co-founder of that
country’s National Liberation Party (PLN), the Costa Rican vehicle for social
democracy, affiliated to the Socialist International. A member of Opus Dei,
Rossi co-founded the PLN as an outgrowth of his work as legal advisor to the
Costa Rican Confederation of Workers of Rerum Novarum. Rerum Novarum is the 1891 founding text of Catholic Social Teaching with its very strong
critique of unbridled capitalism, a critique continued and expanded by every
Pope since.
Requiescat In Pace.
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