Mike Hammer: The Pied Piper of Counterrevolution

Since arriving in the country, this figure has engaged in provocative and interventionist behavior, violating his diplomatic status, a development denounced by the Cuban authorities.

His misdeeds have led him, during his travels across the country, to contact counterrevolutionary leaders and other elements devoid of dignity and patriotic feelings, inciting and supporting them to violate the established constitutional order. This is done in order to achieve what they call "regime change" in the country, the supreme objective of the aggressive northern neighbor.

However, when he has encountered honest citizens who have questioned the hostility of Yankee policy toward Cuba, he has immediately—without responding to criticism and avoiding a debate he knows is lost in advance—cowardly abandoned those places, where he has experienced the people's rejection of him and the government he represents.

Some bad Cubans, servilely, following a pre-prepared script or on their own initiative, have approached him to pay homage.
This leaves much to be desired of them as human beings and citizens of a country to which the US administration—of which Hammer is its leading figure in Cuba—has caused suffering, shortages, and the difficult economic situation we face, so damaging to the Cuban people.

It’s no secret that this obese figure supports all of this, nor is it a secret that the economic, commercial, and financial blockade—which has also been intensified—is the main obstacle to our development. It’s not just "words," as some say, nor a justification for hiding our own mistakes. The reality cannot be hidden, and that’s why the vast majority of the world demands every year at the UN that the US lift this genocidal blockade.

Blaming the Cuban government for the country's current economic situation, with its negative social impact, is one of the most overused and cynical arguments used by the true culprit—the United States—to justify its felony. And those who, in search of shameful handouts and other spurious interests, serve as supporters for this despicable behavior.

It hurts to see the hardships our noble people are forced to endure, but we also feel great pride in being part of it, when, despite everything, it continues to fight to move forward without being fooled by those—presenting themselves, like Hammer, as its "friends"—who seek to push it into a dead end: to gain its support to restore capitalism in Cuba.

Faced with this complex and harsh scenario, for which we know who is most responsible - and whom history does not absolve, as it’s plagued with acts of terror, sabotage, economic, biological, and media warfare against our homeland—it's worth asking:

How can someone born in this land stoop so low and go kiss the hand of someone who, in his person, represents the executioner of his compatriots?

Those who flock like concerned vassals to wherever Hammer appears or summons—turned into a kind of Pied Piper of Hamelin, followed by his procession of rats—to listen to his lies and incitements to disobey the laws, believing that he will guarantee them impunity, are mistaken. The ridiculous "diplomat" is equally mistaken if he thinks he can also violate them.

The majority of the Cuban people, to paraphrase the maestro, prefer "to live a minute on their feet than a lifetime on their knees." Keep that in mind, Mr. Pied Piper.

They miscalculated and made the same mistake as with James Cason, who acted similarly and only managed to become the object of ridicule, starring in a Cuban TV cartoon series titled "Casos y cosas del Cabo Cason." Perhaps Mike Hammer is striving for his own version.

For more than six decades, we have faced the hostility of Yankee policy toward Cuba, which has included a genocidal blockade, the organization and financing of counterrevolutionary groups, terrorist acts, inside mercenaries, and a ruthless media war, among other despicable actions. During this time, they have accumulated failures and defeats; we have accumulated experiences and victories.

That’s why, despite their power and money invested in their activities against Cuba—as well as the malice, cynicism, and lack of ethics with which they have acted in their obsessive desire to overthrow the Revolution—every time they have come for wool, they have come away shorn. We are not a flock of sheep, but a dignified people who know how to defend the sovereignty and independence of their nation.

Translated by Amilkal Labañino / CubaSi Translation Staff