In an article titled “The Economic War Against Cuba and the ‘Eternal Baragua,'” the professor from the Department of Political Science at the National University of Colombia pointed out how Washington’s suffocating siege seeks to “show —through a brutal exercise— that it is impossible to conceive of a social formation different from capitalism.”

In Estrada’s view, this is an attempt to impose an insurmountable punishment on the ideals and the real movement of workers, and at the same time, it seeks to prefigure present and future scenarios for political action, in which there is no room for projects that question the foundations upon which the capitalist model is built.

“Cuba’s accumulated heroic experience in its endeavor to build an alternative society—without having had a stable and lasting opportunity to demonstrate this, because it has not been allowed to—must be forced into a single possible outcome: failure,” he denounced.

The columnist evoked Fidel Castro’s phrase in which he asserted that “Cuba will be an eternal Baragua,” meaning that the rebellious spirit of its people will prevail under any circumstances.

“Beyond life in Cuba, which is also at stake, what is at stake is what that country represents for all of humanity,” Estrada concluded.

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