Elio Delgado Legón

The victory of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela (and resulting positive changes for his people) was an example followed by other leaders such as Evo Morales in Bolivia, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and other leftist and nationalist governments that have clearly shown where that path lies.

The enemies of the Cuban Revolution never tire of repeating in any and every way they can — even in social networks — that Cuba’s economy is a disaster, the socialist system has been a failure, the revolution has destroyed the economy, etc. All this is a colossal lie.

The story of children in Cuba during the revolutionary period begins with a dark chapter: “Operation Peter Pan,” organized and financed by the CIA and implemented with the complicity of some Catholic priests and Falangists.

The above title was the same one I used for a short commentary I wrote in November 2008, just days after Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. Today, he enters his re-election campaign — after four years of doing what he shouldn’t have done and not doing what people hoped he would do.

Those who receive money from a foreign power — one which is also the self-declared enemy of the Cuban Revolution — cannot be regarded as a simple opponents. They are mercenaries and counter-revolutionaries.

Many aspects caught my attention during the recent visit by Pope Benedict XVI to Cuba. I was impressed by the warm welcome given to him by the people, who spontaneously came out to greet him along the route from Antonio Maceo Airport to his destination in the city of Santiago de Cuba, and two days later in his farewell in Havana en route to Jose Marti Airport.

Those who assert that the government in Cuba is a dictatorship are deliberately lying. In my previous article I explained how all members of government are elected, be it the most modest member of a municipal assembly or a deputy to the National Assembly.

In Cuba, the political system is organized so that there is no need for parties, propaganda or money to win an election. Any citizen from among the people who has prestige in the community where they live can become a deputy to the National Assembly.

Another of the big lies used against the Cuban Revolution to assert that democracy doesn’t exist in Cuba is so-called “single-party system.” It’s said — wrongly, and with deliberate intentions — that there’s a single party in Cuba.

An important part of the mass media campaign of lies directed against Cuba is that of complicit silence so that people don’t learn the truth about various issues related to our socialist country.