The vileness of statelessness and history's resounding "no"

Today, as the United States viciously threatens Cuba, the call from "the stateless" to capitulate and surrender as the only way to steer the economy, restore light to our nights of extinguished bulbs, and achieve well-being is an opportunistic and recurring presence on social media.

In their depravity, these "seven-month-olds" who deny their Cuban identity suggest that the only path to progress lies with those who are precisely the cause of our greatest deprivations.

The same people who ignore the existence of the blockade, in the height of cynicism, now demand that oil tankers not enter, knowing full well that such a measure worsens the blackouts, further disrupts the daily lives of the majority of the population, and hinders all the country's efforts toward development.

How can they explain their concern for the people they claim to defend when their campaigns of lies are aimed at reinforcing the economic embargo and strangling the Cuban nation to achieve their political ends?

This breed of sellout individuals who thrive under the protection of the empire has woven a deceptive discourse, behind which their true aim is not to change our current reality for the better, as they proclaim.

Their ultimate goal is far from resolving the problems Cuba faces today; they need these problems to persist so they can continue feeding at the bountiful teat that is their livelihood, which is living off the campaign to discredit the Cuban reality.

That is the signature that proves their "salary." A patriot, one of the many who defend the truth in cyberspace, recently reflected in a concise statement on the insufficient reaction of Cubans abroad—especially in the United States—to the Trump administration's announcements regarding a potential naval blockade to prevent fuel imports.

"This measure, by all accounts, represents a mass genocide in the Hitlerian style.

An abomination of the human race, and the greatest expression of contempt for one's fellow human being.

To remain silent today," he concluded, "is to be complicit in barbarity."

Faced with the appeal of the stateless and the complicit silence of the indifferent, only a resounding no to the infamy and the attempts to conquer Cuban land that have characterized every action in our national history is possible.

Let us make our own the refusal of the Indian Hatuey amidst the flames of the pyre where he preferred to immolate himself rather than accept the submission to the faith offered to him by the heirs of the Inquisition.

Let us stand firm with the pride and dignity of the people of Bayamo who left only the ashes of their city as spoils of war for the enemy.

Let us not leave alive anyone who attacks us, should the moment arrive, as the Black man Salvador Golomon did with the invading Frenchman; Or the intrepid Pepe Antonio when he defied, even unto death, the British forces who dared to tread upon Havana soil.

Let us amplify Maceo's "no" at Baragua, a resounding cry that echoes to the four winds; let us rise up with Marti in his relentless struggle to prevent the United States from expanding throughout the Antilles and falling with that added force upon our lands in America.

Let us repeat with Fidel to the imperialists that "we have no fear of them"; that "we do not like being threatened," and just in case they are mistaken, we assure them with Almeida from the heroic resistance of Alegria de Pio: Here, no one surrenders...!