Cuba, Castro and the King Solomon
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Cuando el 26 de Octubre de 1962 Castro redactó el mensaje que la noche de ese día dictó, en la propia sede diplomática rusa en La Habana, al embajador Alexander Alexeiev, un crimen de lesa humanidad, en el grado de tentativa, había sido consumado.
Después de un largo y tenso día dedicado a ajustar en sus más mínimos detalles la protección, con decenas de baterías antiaéreas operadas por tropas cubanas, de los cohetes nucleares y de los cohetes tierra-aire de las unidades rusas instaladas en suelo cubano, Castro, al preguntarse qué le faltaba ese día fatigoso por hacer, decidió exhortar al secretario general del partido comunista ruso, Nikita S. Jruschov, enviándole ésta su opinión personal:
“Deseo en estos instantes expresarle en palabras muy breves una opinión personal.
Si tiene lugar la segunda variante y los imperialistas invaden a Cuba con el fin de ocuparla, el peligro que tal política agresiva entraña para la humanidad es tan grande que después de ese hecho la Unión Soviética no debe permitir jamás las circunstancias en las cuales los imperialistas pudieran descargar contra ella el primer golpe nuclear.
Le digo esto, porque creo que la agresividad de los imperialistas se hace sumamente peligrosa y si ellos llegan a realizar un hecho tan brutal y violador de la ley y la moral universal, como invadir a Cuba, ése sería el momento de eliminar para siempre semejante peligro, en acto de la más legítima defensa, por dura y terrible que fuese la solución, porque no habría otra.”
When Castro wrote his message, from the Russian Embassy in
That had been a long and tense day. During it Castro had gone through the task of preparing to the minimum details how to defend with dozens of anti-aircrafts operated by Cuban troops the air and land rockets, which had been installed by the Russians on Cuban sole. When at the end of that long day Castro asked himself what else he needed to do, he decided to exhort Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Communist Party, by sending him a note. In the note he expressed his personal opinion as follows:
“At this time I want to convey to you briefly my personal opinion.
If the second variant is implemented and the imperialists invade Cuba with the goal of occupying it, the danger that aggressive policy poses for humanity is so great that following that event the Soviet Union must never allow the circumstances in which the imperialists could launch the first nuclear strike against it.
I tell you this because I believe that the imperialists’ aggressiveness is extremely dangerous and if they actually carry out the brutal act of invading Cuba in violation of international law and morality, that would be the moment to eliminate such danger forever through an act of clear legitimate defense, however harsh and terrible the solution would be, for there is no other.”
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The legend says that two women were claiming to be the mother of the same child. They were taken to King Solomon, a king known by his wisdom, so that he could resolve the situation. The King proposed to cut the child in half so that each woman had a piece of him. The legend says that in that manner the King discovered who the real mother was and he gave the child to her.
In 1962, a greedy Cuban leader played the role of King Solomon’s impostor mother. When facing the alternative of losing the power he had just gained or sacrificing the people to whom he had promised to defend, he proposed to a foreign government the destruction of not only his enemies but of his own people. The following historical documents will testify and enlighten those who consider themselves inheritors of King Solomon’s wisdom.
About the Author
Born in November 1957, in the eastern city of
Luis was Professor of Theoretical Physics and Biophysics at that university until 1989, when he was expelled from the faculty after his voluntary resignation from the Cuban communist party.
In 1992, Grave de Peralta was apprehended and accused of “rebellion through pacific means” for being the author of the book manuscript Cuban Themes or Recreational Dialectic. Because of this unpublished manuscript, he was sentenced to thirteen years in a maximum-security prison.
After four years, in 1996, thanks to an international effort to gain his release along with other political prisoners, he was deported directly from jail to the
In 1997, his book, La Magia del Cariño (The Magic of Love), a collection of short stories written for his children from his jail cell, was published in
In 2001, his second book, La Mafia de La Habana, was published in Spanish with a cover designed by his son, Gabriel. The English translation, The Mafia of Havana, was published in 2002.
Grave de Peralta lives in