By Michel E. Torres Corona / REDH-Cuba
And, as in Girón, we will know how to defend our land at any cost. For freedom — for the dignified condition of not kneeling before the powerful, before the vulgar “Epstein circle” — as the poet said: We must give everything.
The Americans remember it as the “Bay of Pigs,” but they know it was a defeat. It still hurts them, like an invisible thorn. We remember that feat as Girón, and it continues to fill us with pride: it is part of the unfading epic of the Revolution.
In less than 72 hours, the mercenaries trained and financed by the most powerful empire in history were defeated. It was neither a whim nor a show of force: more time would have meant the possibility that the invading army could establish a beachhead, with a hypothetical and farcical provisional government requesting the intervention of its masters. They failed.
Exchanged for baby food and medicine, the men who tried to kill the Revolution in its cradle — like the serpents to Heracles — led to the first defeat of Yankee imperialism in Latin America. Their heirs, forever humiliated by that reactionary fiasco, now try to whitewash the event, to reclaim it. And, buoyed by the fascist-like rise shaking the northern lands, guided by Trumpian messiahs and false idols of cyberspace, they dream of revenge.
Today, as then, Cuba is threatened with invasions and bombings, with surgical strikes, kidnappings, and assassinations sold as “limited” blows… but neither hitmen nor mafiosos can hide the gruesome fact that such actions will always have collateral damage. People who identify as Cubans call for death and destruction for the country of their birth, from the safety and cynicism of their own homes, and the mainstream media echoes “leaks” and bravado that seem to occur daily. But Girón remains in the same place, geographically and historically speaking.
If the cowards and the arrogant, the criminals who run the “free world” and their pathetic lackeys, decide to act, if they ultimately unleash all their hatred and resentment upon this archipelago, we know there will be blood and suffering. We know there will be pain and tears. But we also have the certainty of resistance and victory. It is not an abstraction: it is our heritage. It is the legacy of the men who gave their lives decades ago to repel the mercenary incursion, a legacy that connects with the recent loss of 32 Cubans who fell in asymmetric combat, for the dignity of our homeland and all of the Americas.
As President Díaz-Canel said in an interview with a U.S. media outlet: comparisons with Cuba are meaningless. Our history is unique. Our people are unique. And, as at the Bay of Pigs, we will know how to defend our land at any cost. For freedom—for the dignified condition of not kneeling before the powerful, before the vulgar “Epstein circle”—as the poet said: we must give everything. It was done in the 1960s and it will be done in this complex new century, if necessary.
Besides… how much we could use a fresh supply of medicine and baby food!
Michel E. Torres Corona. Lawyer. Writer, host of the Cuban television program, Con Filo. Editorial Director of Nuevo Milenio. Member of the Network in Defense of Humanity, Cuban Chapter.
[ SOURCE: www.cubainformacion.tv ]
