(EFE) .- Cuba risk headed for a hybrid between Chinese liberalism and North Korea’s dynastic regime if dissent is ignored, says the diplomat and Chilean writer Jorge Edwards, disappointed by the “indifference” of the international community to the “transition” in Cuba.
The change in Cuba must go through the “reconciliation” and “do not exclusively an economic opening and diplomatic “says Edwards (Santiago de Chile, 1931) in an interview with Efe on the occasion of the presentation this Friday a new edition of its iconic work Persona non grata in the House de America in Madrid.
This edition contains Chair first critical study, and a large number of footnotes page and a new foreword, where the author regret not having written to the early 70s his memorable fierce criticism of the Castro communism or having published non grata “their late due”.
It was in late 1973, in Barcelona, by his friend Carlos Barral.
The latest edition also contains unpublished letters written by Graham Edwards Green, Arthur Miller, Carlos Prats and Guillermo Cabrera Infante. The latter applauded the “master” the Chilean diplomat portrait made in his book of Fidel Castro, “with its mix of schizophrenic and great actor.”
Edwards, Cervantes Prize 1999 and citizen Spanish since 2000, came to Havana in 1970 as Charge d’Affaires of Chile in Cuba, in order to restore diplomatic relations between the two countries upon arrival Salvador Allende to power.
But his stay only lasted three and half months, since it was practically expelled by the regime. Edwards was one of the first Latin American to be distanced from Castro and stopped being “typical leftist intellectual.”
“What to do From the point of view of Western cult, democratic and modern it is to help Cuba to be reconciled and transformed into a modern democracy with social justice as possible “
The edition of the “nonfiction novel” was completed on 15 April 2015. That day, Barack Obama and Raul Castro shook hands at a meeting in which US President said. “The Cold War is over”
Now, nearly seven months later, Edwards believes that “what to do, from the point of view of Western religion, democratic and modern is to help Cuba to be reconciled and transformed into a modern democracy with social justice as possible. “
” You have to go to that, which is the civilized, “he says Chilean author, convinced that this challenge “the United States and the Vatican could do much,” but do not see it in “Obama’s plans or the current pope,” Francis, who in his opinion “have rejected dissidents brutal a way “.
For Edwards is” quite disappointing “” indifference and lack of understanding of the international community ahead of the transition that begins to announce in Cuba “.
A transition that the author of numerous novels, short stories and essays believed unavoidable: “Transition must be because Fidel and Raul is not immortal either. Right now he says I am a cautious optimist “about a possible political change on the island.
In this regard, emphasizes the risk would mean that the changes only to ciñesen economic and diplomatic.
would generate “a political dictatorship market, capitalism, the Chinese, and then a dynasty in North Korea because it is the Castro family who is governing, and when (Fidel and Raul) die appear children, relatives and friends, “predicts the author of The weight of the night or The origin of World .
Asked if he ever fantasized about the possibility of returning to meet with Fidel Castro, Edwards, laughing, said no, and he fears mastery of this “snake charmer” with the use of the image.
“I have much fear of photography and hug (which is sure to give) to the post “argues
And on a more serious note, he adds:” The influence of Fidel Castro has been disastrous for Latin America mce “”
So is, according to him, Peronism, the Mexican Revolution and the PRI, Chavez and all the “mania to turn the page” that exists in Latin America. This is what Edwards calls “the founding obsession”, “wipe out the past to start again”.
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