The Cuban government seems bold with the new president of Brazil, Luis Ignacio da Silva and he sent a low-level delegation to the inauguration because of the geopolitical dimensions of the South American giant and impolite to the risks Lula had taken with Havana during his previous tenure as president.
President Miguel Díaz-Canel squandered wasted flying hours over remote regions and the Caribbean by not attending the first Latin American summit of the year; natural environment of Cuba since the fall of communism.
stay in Havana; make a fool of yourself with the video cheo militant in the Plaza de la Revolución it will be very expensive; for the childish navelism of believing that the world revolves around Cuba; to be more disjointed than when he was made president.
Cuba did not even send Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez, a regular replacement for Fidel, Raúl Castro and Díaz-Canel at international events, and delegated representation to Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa; with a low foreign policy profile, and Josefina Vidal, vice chancellor and lifelong ambassador of the homeland, according to North Korean nomenclature of late Castroism.
The remainder of the delegation consists of the Head of South America at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) and the Charge d’Affaires in Brazil; logical and customary circumstances in these cases.
, the official organ of the ruling Communist Party, heralded the start of the old ally’s third democratic term on the inside pages of its printed editions and mentions, below and to the left of the digital one.
The anger can come because a few days after the phone call with Díaz-Canel; who appeared happy and hopeful, a senator close to Lula clarified that they would resume the program more doctors with a dominance of native and Cuban doctors who remained in Brazil.
Lula learned in prison that revolutionary enthusiasms are usually like night outings, that he ends up in tears and that he will find it very difficult to govern because half of Congress is right-wing and half left-wing, but invented by different parties; in addition to the pact he signed to have his sentences overturned, get out of prison and become president again; with new wife and Sato dog aboard Roll Royce.
The unprofitable Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM) was a gift from Lula to Raúl Castro, with Brazilian government credit that Cuba didn’t pay and in 2008 it came to Havana with a billion dollars to encourage agricultural and technological development and infrastructure modernization.
During that visit, Petrobras offered to scout, or at least advise, Cuba on finding deep-sea oil in the Gulf of Mexico and explored the possibility of building a lubricants plant.
The Cuban Vice-President, in search of “cooperation” agreements in the fields of energy and food production, held meetings with an economic content; It has not yet reached the new President and political meetings have been limited to left figures and groups in solidarity with late Castroism.
The other major absentees from the regional and world summit that led to Lula’s inauguration were Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro; although outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro has lifted the veto; Hours before leaving for Miami so as not to present the President’s sash to the winner of the hard-fought election; in a gesture dishonoring him for his great loss; Despite his many years of political experience.
The oil manna that nature has blessed Venezuela with, the energy crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the mistakes of the dismantled opposition are facilitating the reintroduction of late Chavismo to the world; under the protection of Washington, which sent its national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, to Brasilia.
So far, there is no record of a meeting or greeting between Valdés or Vidal and the senior US official.
Late Castroism should know that, 64 years after the dawn that lit Latin America, Havana is uncomfortable for a good portion of the left in the region; that he maintains a cautious distance from the continent’s oldest dictatorship because the majority of his voters disagree with the olive and guayaberado anachronism; as in Chile and Colombia.
Fidel Castro used Fernando Collor de Mello’s assumption (1990) to facilitate the siege of Cuba after the fall of the Soviet Union and; Although he fought in a hotel in Brasilia with Felipe González to the tunes of Sagunto and Numancia, he tried to reestablish himself in Latin America, supported by Carlos Andrés Pérez, César Gaviria and González himself; among other.
Díaz-Canel’s actions and inactions have created a current of negative opinion and constant comparisons with Fidel Castro, who, while not entirely fair to the current president, has revealed his inability to build consensus and leadership; except mediocrity proved between grateful stomachs.
More than one veteran diplomat and/or official of the party’s and government’s international relations structure; including the old DGI; the one who knew most about the United States, they will raise their hands to their heads and whisper: With Ñato we are lost.
Apparently, part of their criticism is due to them being delayed by time and the Raulista guillotine, which drew another failed scenario, Díaz-Canel in pan con na and López-Calleja as a gentleman on the olive bench; but man proposes, God decrees and the bitter truths are invincible.
The post of ambassador to Brazil is vacant and would be a good option for Josefina Vidal since she was expelled from North America and was not even interviewed by pro-Castro North American congressmen; although he would be a far better chancellor than Bruno Rodríguez, a coward to the opposite wall, unable to defend his own like Felipe Pérez Roque did before Fidel Castro.