The coup d'état reminds us that wherever socialism has shown the best possibilities of making life viable for our peoples, capitalism has fought it with suffocation and death.

Author: Karima Oliva Bello | internet@granma.cu

September 11, 2020 9:09:30 PM

Salvador Allende and the Commander in Chief, in Punta Arenas, Tierra del Fuego, in 1971. Photo: Michael Serraillier
The coup d'etat in Chile reminds us that the criminals were not just that group of unscrupulous military personnel or humanity. The crime was economic, it had its foundation in the work of the Nobel Prize winner in Economics Milton Friedman: only by killing the Chilean people and drowning their resistance in blood could the new phase of capitalism be imposed on them. The coup d'état reminds us that wherever socialism has shown the best possibilities of making life viable for our peoples, capitalism has fought it with suffocation and death.

The coup d'etat reminds us that the Nobel Prize for the mastermind of neoliberalism is conclusive proof that the values ​​of the hegemonic culture are an offense and we must deconstruct them. The coup d'etat reminds us that to those who come to speak to us in the abstract of acceptance of political diversity, plurality, the right, the center, unity, and all those concepts tinged with opportunism, we tell them that we cannot accept whoever wants to impose us a destiny of domination. A prostituted diversity in the north does not serve us.

The coup d'état reminds us that the deaths that began that day continue to occur in our continent: in the bodies of women and girls skewered in trafficking, in the perforated veins of our young people, in the soils and waters contaminated by pesticides, in the native peoples evicted by the transnationals, in the land destroyed by fracking, in the contaminated food, hunger, and junk food, in the impoverished health systems and the assassinated social leaders, in the inoperativeness of the institutions, the corruption, and impunity, in the thousands and thousands of disappeared.

The coup d'état reminds us that, if this reality is distant and strange to us in Cuba, it has been against the current, it has been because we have organized ourselves, it has been because we have defended life against the grain of death and it has cost us. Sharpen your gaze, raise your voice, lose your fear of being different, find ways to recognize yourself. Understand the history, that history, our history.

They want to silence history, rewrite history, erase history, but Allende, we remember you!

"You continue to know that, much sooner rather than later, the great avenues through which the free man passes will open to build a better society."