Andrés Reynaldo

"When I look at present-day Cuba today, I feel sadness and great pain, because the country is lost - at least it seems to me, I wish I was wrong - that country has lost the ability to resist a system that is already dead. Many people ask how it is possible that life in Cuba is still like this, when there is no longer the ideological aspect, it is completely empty. It is proven that mafia structure controls everything. So I'm trying to contribute as much as I can. I write my articles, I try to contribute with my words. And if it is worth talking about what I have seen in my life, what has been lost in time, I can talk about my doubts and disappointments that come to mind when I think of Cuba. But I am already 66 years old. In fact, I would like to sit in the backyard of my house and read under the almond tree."

"Speaking of the Cuban Revolution, it must be emphasized that it was not the working class that would have carried it out, because there were trade unions in Cuba - despite General Batista, despite what anyone could say, the unions were very strong. The communist unions supported Batista. However, these unions were very successful. They had their own hospitals, recreational facilities, had their own funds and provided financial assistance. It all disappeared when the revolution won. So the working class did not support the revolution, the black population did not support it, and the villagers did not. On the contrary, during the first years after the victory of the revolution, a great peasant uprising was formed in the Escambray Mountains. It took seven or eight years for the uprising to be suppressed with all Soviet help. The uprising was initially supported by the CIA, but since 1961 there has been no support.