As a metaphor of his loss in history, Cuba has been dark. And as an inexorable consequence of ultra-islamist Sunism that today governs Syria, jihadists turned into soldiers who massacred civilians of the Alauí ethnicity in the bastions of the “ancien regime.” Very close to there, Hamas and Netanyahu showed their political and moral darkness unleashing a hell of fire that added almost half a thousand deaths in an hour handful.
In the Caribbean and in the Middle East there are examples of bogging and historical involution. Regimes without accelerator to move towards a different future, and leaderships that can only turn back.
Hamas does not know how to fight Israel if it is not on the scenario of world public opinion, offering the Gazatis as cannon flesh so that Netanyahu criminalizes the image of the Jewish state. Nor does he know how to maintain the truce without running out of hostages, because that human shield has allowed him to survive as a military power, although rare and reduced.
In turn, Netanyahu does not know how to stay in power and far from the judicial stages that will judge him for corruption and for what happened on October 7, 2023, without a war that justifies him in Gaza. And for that war to continue, he needs to Hamas still have hostages. That is why the delay in relenting Haranes gave him the opportunity to launch a massive bombardment left by the truce by the captive Israelis. And incidentally, he distracted the attention of his suspicious onslaught to dismiss Ronen Bar as head of the Shin Bet, despite the fact that Israeli rulers cannot remove from their positions the heads of intelligence devices, because among their functions they have to investigate power.
That was Ronen Bar, who directed Shin Bet from the centrist government headed by Yair lapidquestioning his own failures in the blood pogrome launched by Hamas that bloody October, but also sowing suspicions about Netanyahu, in addition to investigating the millionaires bribes of Qatar to two prime minister advisors. Hamas’ ultraislamlamist obscurantism and the political, ideological and moral darkness of Netanyahu add death and destruction in Gaza.
Ultraislamism, whether Sunni or Shií, only knows how to prolong the dark past. Meanwhile, in the Caribbean, the Castro Cuba only knows how to age in a pathetic way, striving to stop the time in the same way that stops and imprisons all who want to leave behind a calamitous and dictatorial past, to move towards a democratic and economically logical future.
The recurring power cuts exhibit the technological decrepitude of basic services. Also the economic agony of the island. The Castro economy and its energy system worked only when they received free oil from the Soviet Union. They collapsed by the disappearance of the USSR and resurrected tenuously when Hugo Chávez placed their Venezuelan oil pulmotor. Precisely for financing from the public coffers the construction of the regional leadership of Chávez, PDVSA languished and with it the subsidy to the Cuban regime.
Raúl Castro is more pragmatic than his brother Fidel, but when Obama relaxed the embargo for Cuba to receive external investments, he could not overcome the resistance of the bureaucrats who feared losing their privileges.
In his first government, Trump harden the embargo and Biden kept it like this, leaving blocked the possibility that Cuba could leave through economic reform and openness roads such as those promoted by Deng Xiaoping in China and Nguyen van Linh in Vietnam.
In both Asian countries, the Communist Party continues to rule, but the economies incorporated capitalism and had formidable takeoffs. Both China and Vietnam have authoritarian regimes, but they no longer suffer from the “absolute authoritarianism” involved in the totalitarianism of Mao Tse-Tung and Ho Chi Ming.
Trump should not end the opening of Obama or Biden had to maintain the hardening of the embargo he inherited. But it is clear that it was the bureaucracy clinging to its privileges that prevented the arrival of private investments.
The repeated blackouts produced by the collapse of the electrical system and the impossibility of financing adequate maintenance, show the ideological darkness that prevents the regime from reviving the aging and ankylose economy.
That statism has no accelerator to march to a different future. And the Alauitas massacres seem to demonstrate that the regime that replaced Bashar al Assad in Syria, only has reverse despite the promises of ethnic opening and pluralism made by its leader, Ahmed al Sharaa, when he enters victorious in Damascus.
The regime created by Hafez the Assad and continued his son Bashar was a blood dictators Sunni slope of Islam.
The Front Nusra who commanded Sharaa with the jihadist name of Mohamed al Golani, professed Sunism, like the other ultra-islamic militias that joined in the Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS) coalition. The fighters of these militias became soldiers of the new army, but the violent irruption of a regime’s resigner made them again fans who toured the streets of Latakia and Tartus massacrating Civil Alauitas.
Those days of blood, President Ahmed al Sharaa was again the jihadist Mohamed al Golani, although he later sealed agreements with Drusos and Kurds to restore his image as a ruler of all Syrians.
Europe, for now, prefers to believe that the Golani will definitely be Sharaa. As if, paraphrasing Franklin Roosevelt about Somoza, murmured between teeth “is an ultraislamist fanatic, but he is our ultraislamist fanatic.”
This is how, in the same handful of days, Cuba was wrapped in the darkness that symbolizes her ideological darkness, in Israel and in Gaza reincidated the dark instinct of power of Netanyahu and Hamas, while in Syria the criminal nature of Sunni jihadism eager to return to the times of darkness.
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