A Bastion for Peace

Text and picture: Francisco Martinez Chao

Havana Province, Cuba. - The genetic information of human beings is made up by 23 couples of chromosomes. However, in the particular case of Cubans, they have 24, because their double helix is made of strands of unwavering courage instead of deoxyribonucleic acid.

When an aggressive gene threatens the peaceful genome of the little Cuban Island, its children unobtrusively activate a courageous defensive chain. This defense is capable of neutralizing the bully viral invader that causes wars, misery and hunger in today’s world.

That’s why today the intelligence of the bacteria Goliath, in other words, Yankee Imperialism, ought to follow closely the development of the traditional Exercise “Bastion 2009” in the solidary Republic of Cuba.

Of course, neither the satellites nor the unmanned spy aircrafts that regularly pry into the green cayman will discover state-of-the-art weapons only seen in the Stars War movies. They will detect something else that they know very well: a defensive system painstakingly organized in every millimeter of this humanitarian nation.

In spite of their intelligence assets, mighty naval fleets and overly armed marines, US real power will never be able to decipher the genetic information of the Cubans. Nevertheless, the answer is folkloricaly musical: a tin beat unleashes a conga that not even a nuclear tsunami can stop.

And Bastion 2009 is like the horn blow that spurred the mambises of the Liberation Army in the XIX century. It announced that a machete conga, or rather, a cutthroat charge against the invader, was about to happen in the battlefield, in the name of desecrated sovereignty.

Translated by:Pedro A. Fanego

( 28.11.2009 10:01 AM )