The light that blinds the tyrant
There’s a man in this world that is dying, but his light is not to be extinguished, far from that, his light shines bright, brighter that any other star surrounded by the dark sky of what is communist Cuba. This light is being spread globally through the efforts of small bloggers, people who devote their times in bringing to the fore those global issues that the Mass Media deems insignificant, embarrassing or non news-worthy (non-profitable).
This brightest of lights emanates from one of us, Guillermo el Coco Fariñas, a Cuban caught in the irony that is communist Cuba.
The difference is that he cannot join us in blogging, because the tyrant that rules Cuba with a bloodied iron fist denies the Cuban people the chance to access the information that the whole world is able to share through the internet.
Who is el Coco?
He is a regular Cuban, a black man, and a doctor in psychology, who enjoys the simple pleasures of a simple existence, or used to enjoy them, before his only means of communication with the external world was yanked away from him.
Tyrants have been always very wary of thinkers, so not only it is forbidden in Cuba to read the ideas of others, one cannot write one’s own ideas if they don’t carry the stamp of approval of the government.
The sole idea of Cuban people to be able to access the internet and to exchange ideas with the rest of the world is considered dangerous by the ruler of the island nation.
According to his book, it is even more dangerous than owning a short wave radio, or a satellite dish. And one really has to wonder how’s that a government fears that its subjects and citizens are informed about what happens in this world.
There’s a simple reason for that: obscurantism is the only way through which a tyrant can keep an entire people enslaved.
When one looks at the photographs of Fariñas, one can only think of the tortured human beings in the Nazi concentration camps, one remembers the Ecce Homo, and one remembers the tortured victims of modern day terror and totalitarianism. The whole island of Cuba is a double sided gulag, the mental gulag and the physical gulag, and el Coco is straddling both.
Coco is to Cubans the iconic figure that we saw over the Internet of the valiant Chinese youngster who stood in front of the tank at China’s Tiananmen Square protest.
One man against a monstrous government machinery.
One man, whose figure captured the imagination of the world and who produced extraordinary changes in Communist China, just by his willingness to stop a tank with his frail body.
We need to break the wall of silence that prevails in the media outlets. We need to bring it down. We need to expose the reality of Cuba to the American public, by making a gash in the veil of complicity that the media, some politicians, and a number of celebrities try to keep over everything related to Cuba. We need not only to save the live of a hero; we also need to save the lives of 12 million Cubans, who are under the most brutal dictatorship that was ever experienced in the Americas.
Join us, please, in spreading the word about the life of Fariñas to preserve him from an untimely death, which will benefit no other than the tyrant, since a hero shall die, and the Cuban people need leaders and heroes in this dark hour.
Tyranny will be defeated.
El Coco doesn’t know who KillCastro is; he has never met Charlie Bravo. But for both of us, he is like a lifelong friend, one of those friends that one never forgets.
KillCastro
Charlie Bravo
This brightest of lights emanates from one of us, Guillermo el Coco Fariñas, a Cuban caught in the irony that is communist Cuba.
The difference is that he cannot join us in blogging, because the tyrant that rules Cuba with a bloodied iron fist denies the Cuban people the chance to access the information that the whole world is able to share through the internet.
Who is el Coco?
He is a regular Cuban, a black man, and a doctor in psychology, who enjoys the simple pleasures of a simple existence, or used to enjoy them, before his only means of communication with the external world was yanked away from him.
Tyrants have been always very wary of thinkers, so not only it is forbidden in Cuba to read the ideas of others, one cannot write one’s own ideas if they don’t carry the stamp of approval of the government.
The sole idea of Cuban people to be able to access the internet and to exchange ideas with the rest of the world is considered dangerous by the ruler of the island nation.
According to his book, it is even more dangerous than owning a short wave radio, or a satellite dish. And one really has to wonder how’s that a government fears that its subjects and citizens are informed about what happens in this world.
There’s a simple reason for that: obscurantism is the only way through which a tyrant can keep an entire people enslaved.
When one looks at the photographs of Fariñas, one can only think of the tortured human beings in the Nazi concentration camps, one remembers the Ecce Homo, and one remembers the tortured victims of modern day terror and totalitarianism. The whole island of Cuba is a double sided gulag, the mental gulag and the physical gulag, and el Coco is straddling both.
Coco is to Cubans the iconic figure that we saw over the Internet of the valiant Chinese youngster who stood in front of the tank at China’s Tiananmen Square protest.
One man against a monstrous government machinery.
One man, whose figure captured the imagination of the world and who produced extraordinary changes in Communist China, just by his willingness to stop a tank with his frail body.
We need to break the wall of silence that prevails in the media outlets. We need to bring it down. We need to expose the reality of Cuba to the American public, by making a gash in the veil of complicity that the media, some politicians, and a number of celebrities try to keep over everything related to Cuba. We need not only to save the live of a hero; we also need to save the lives of 12 million Cubans, who are under the most brutal dictatorship that was ever experienced in the Americas.
Join us, please, in spreading the word about the life of Fariñas to preserve him from an untimely death, which will benefit no other than the tyrant, since a hero shall die, and the Cuban people need leaders and heroes in this dark hour.
Tyranny will be defeated.
El Coco doesn’t know who KillCastro is; he has never met Charlie Bravo. But for both of us, he is like a lifelong friend, one of those friends that one never forgets.
KillCastro
Charlie Bravo
2 Comments:
What a beautiful way to write what is in your heart. This post should be going out to all the newspapers
globally! Attention should be brought forth, let people see what the reality is in Cuba, what that demon Castro has done and continues to do to that poor enslaved Island in the Caribbean while some idiots here continue to idolize him and praise him like a god!
Great Comment Chalie
i agree with CArmen
this post should be going out to the Herald, ect. You never know
when they will pick up on it.
Keep up the cause
one day Cuba will be free, too bad that day will come a bit late for people like my father who died in January 06 and never realized his dream of returning to a a free Cuba
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