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PARTISAN REVIEW
- Winner of the Hemingway Trophy,
- Unique and Exclusive Wearer of the Military Decoration
Designed Especially for You,
- Doctor Honoris Causa of Scientific Marxism,
Etc .
"Big Brother," confirms Orwell, "is infallible and all powerful.
Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific
discovery , all knowledge, all wisdom, all happiness, all virtue are
held to issue directly from his leadership and inspiration. "
What good does it do you to be "Supervisor-of-the -Ministry-of–
the- Interior-with-authority-above-that-of-the-Minister-of-the-Bu–
reau'" when you already hold the highest offices:
- President of the Republic
- Prime Minister
- First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party
- President of the Council of State
- Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
- President of the Council of Ministers
Etc .
Amazing parapets of paraphernalia paved by your party para–
sites to paralyze you in your paranoia; you present them to yourself
and pay for them with the patrimony of the country (just for the sake
of appearances).
Pathetic peasant!
Hidden in your hideout you dream about your funeral, you
hear the universal condemnation of your works, it is so near you can
hear the chatter of your officious lackeys but you can't identify their
voices .
Which one will be the Kruschev who denounces your crimes?
Will it be Carlos Rafael RodrIguez, your minister and also
minister under the Dictator Batista?
Will anti-Castroism
reach the red heights of the anti-Stalinism of Kruschev , or the yellow
heights of the anti-Maoism in today's Peking?
How many millions of the dead will pack you away beneath
your tombstone when your mouth is sealed forever?
When you took power there were six million Cubans in Cuba :
almost two million chose liberty .
"Fidel, the island is 'your' house ."
Just yours . Because if your navy would raise the blockade to
