On Being Generous, Perceptive but also Suspicious Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit Carter and the Varela Project Sobre ser generoso, perspicaz y tambie'n suspicaz. (Sigue versio'n en Espan~ol) On Being Generous, Perceptive but also Suspicious. Andres Gomez, Director, "Areito Digital" translated by Luis A. Martin All that has not been said nor will be said in Miami, Cuba, the rest of the U.S. and the world about the incredible trip of ex-president Carter to Cuba. So far it has been positive. Positive for those who favor the end of a policy of permanent aggression maintained since 1959 by the governments of the U.S. against the fundamental freedoms of the Cuban people, with the objective of drawing the boundaries of the policy that we are trying to end. If Jimmy Carter is as generous as he was trying to be during those three days in Cuba and, above all, in expressing his gratitude last night for the honor granted to him by the Cuban government of addressing the Cuban people on television and radio from the Aula Magna of the University of Havana, I would say that his statement alone -- for whatever reasons -- that it is up to the U.S. to take the first step in beginning to end what he called the impasse between both governments, is worthy of praise, especially because it is being said by an ex-president of the U.S. If, at the same time, Carter is as sharp as he demonstrated himself to be during his visit to Cuba, especially during his speech in Spanish at the Aula Magna, I would say that the ex-president was attempting to establish the beginning of a dialogue based on mutual respect and also provide substance to a process of reconsideration by U.S. power circles regarding their policy against the Cuban people. An extremely difficult and complex undertaking. We belive it to be so, merely witnessing the malevolent and unsubstantiated accusations launched against Cuba regarding the nation's biotechnical industry and its use by those in the current U.S. Administration who form part of maintaining and deepening a policy of permanent aggression. And as part of that dialogue process proposed by President Carter in his speech last night, I would be suspicious besides perceptive and generous; that is, I would be inclined to doubt and distrust as well. Cubans are perfectly justified in doing so when an ex-president of the U.S. asks the Cuban people to accept the legitimacy, as a question of right and condition placed upon Cuba to be accepted into what Carter described as "the community of democratic nations," of the Varela Project, an obviously counterrevolutionary plan. Just as subversive as it is simple and ingenious, the Project says plenty about the cleverness of the counterrevolution and its powerful ally, in that it took them 26 years to have concocted this new scheme. The five points of the Varela Project are not as its preamble says: "the first step to creating new and better conditions for rights to flourish." In reality, it is what its preamble denies it to be: "a project or social model." If it is a social model, (then it is) precisely the one that existed in Cuba since January 1, 1899, when the invading U.S. military was officially established as the government of Cuba. This social model existed in Cuba for 60 years until, on another January 1 of 1959. when our people -- for the first time in its history -- completely united and master of its own destiny, achieved independence and the full exercise and enjoyment of liberty and rights, all thoroughly human, and decided to end once and for all that imposed social model that caused so much suffering and that now they attempt to impose on us as if it were something new. --------------------------- Sobre ser generoso, perspicaz y tambie'n suspicaz. Cuanto no se ha comentado y se comentara aqui en Miami, en Cuba, en el resto de los EE.UU. y en el resto del mundo sobre el insolito viaje del expresidente Jimmy Carter a Cuba. Hasta ahora ha sido positivo. Positivo para aquellos que favorecen el fin de una politica de agresion permanente mantenida por los gobiernos de EE.UU. en contra de las libertades fundamentales del pueblo cubano, vamos a decir desde 1959, con el fin de delimitar el alcance de la politica que estamos tratando de dar fin. Si fuese a ser generoso como ha querido demostrar ser Jimmy Carter en estos tres dias pasados en Cuba, y sobre todo al agradecer anoche el honor a el concedido por el gobierno cubano de dirigirse por television y radio al pueblo de Cuba desde el Aula Magna de la Universidad de La Habana, diria que solo el hecho de el afirmar -por cualesquiera razones- que corresponde a EE.UU. a dar el primer paso en comenzar a dar fin a lo que el llamo, el impase que existe entre ambos gobiernos, merita reconocimiento, especialmente porque lo afirma un expresidente de los EE.UU. Si a la misma vez fuese a ser perspicaz como ha demostrado ser el presidente Carter durante su visita a Cuba, especialmente en su discurso en espanol anoche en el Aula Magna, diria que lo que intenta el expresidente es establecer el principio de un dialogo entre partes basado en el respeto mutuo y substanciar un proceso de reconsideracion por parte de sectores de poder en los EE.UU. sobre la politica mantenida por los EE.UU. en contra del pueblo cubano. Tarea en extremo dificil y complicada. Lo sabemos asi con solo ser testigos de las malevolas e insostenibles acusaciones lanzadas en contra de Cuba en relacion a su industria biotecnologica y los usos de la misma, por parte de aquellos en la actual Administracion estadounidense comprometidos en mantener y profundizar la politica de agresion permanente. Y como parte de ese proceso de dialogo propuesto por el presidente Carter en su discurso anoche yo tambien, ademas de generoso y perspicaz, seria suspicaz, esto es: propenso a concebir sospecha y desconfianza. Porque es justo para un cubano serlo cuando un expresidente de los EE.UU. le propone al pueblo de Cuba aceptar legitimar como cuestion de derecho y como condicion a Cuba para ser aceptada en lo que Carter califico como "la comunidad de paises democraticos," al Proyecto Varela, un plan evidentemente contrarrevolucionario. Tan subversivo como sencillo e ingenioso. Desdice en demasia de la astucia de la contrarrevolucion y la de poderoso aliado que les haya tomado mas de 26 anos para ocurriseles esta otra artimana. Los cinco puntos del Proyecto Varela no son como su preambulo dice que es "el primer paso para crear nuevas y mejores condiciones de derecho," sino realmente es lo que su preambulo niega que sea "un proyecto o modelo de sociedad." Si es un modelo de sociedad, precisamente el modelo de sociedad que existio en Cuba desde el 1 de enero de 1899, cuando quedo establecido en Cuba de manera oficial el gobierno militar interventor de los EE.UU. Este modelo de sociedad existio en Cuba por 60 anos, hasta justamente otro 1 de enero en 1959, cuando nuestro pueblo, por primera vez en su historia plenamente unido y dueno de su destino, logro su independencia y el pleno ejercicio y disfrute de sus libertades y de sus derechos -todos extremadamente humanos- y decidio terminar para siempre con ese modelo de sociedad que se habia impuesto y que tanto a Cuba hizo sufrir, y que ahora nos vuelven pretender imponer como si fuera nuevo. source - jon hillson@aol.com ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytact-05.17.02-23:39:35-25932