In the midst of a scenario of political and economic weakness and with forecasts of a possible social outbreak, The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba flexed their muscles through a video published on their official account in
The video, which shows equipment of dubious combative efficiency, generated numerous comments of mockery and irony. Do not release those videos, lest Haiti invade us upon learning of our weapons inferiority. These Soviet equipment have been obsolete for decades.“said a user identified as Cubanito Bueno.
While another wrote: “Those tasks that the only thing they would be useful for today is to recycle steel.” “Who are they going to defend themselves from? What young people want is to leave the country and they go to the service because it is mandatory“said another Internet user.
The video that, With a background of epic music, it displays a Russian-made Ural truck with rocket launcher, a tank and gun truckshows the training and other tasks of the soldiers of the Border Battalion, located in the Guantanamo town of Caimanera, in front of the US naval base.
“The name of Ramón López Peña today honors the combative vanguard of the Cuban troops that safeguard the national territory against the illegal United States Naval Base in Guantánamo,” stated MINFAR in X.
In February, Russian television dedicated a report to the preparation of the Black Wasps, the main elite force of the FAR. The 40-minute material shows the ability of the members of that Cuban troop to walk barefoot on barbed wire or remain lying there, while a companion runs over them.
In this context, the MINFAR rule that decrees the armed custody and declaration as a military area of “agricultural production zonesconstruction and assembly investments, and other urban and rural areas”, has gone under the radar of citizens.
This, like the military display of the Cuban troops and the demonstration that the regime maintains the armed support of foreign powers such as Russia and Belarus, happens, according to what Argentine political scientist Laura Tedesco, vice dean of Humanities and Sciences, told DIARIO DE CUBA. Social Studies at the Saint Louis University-Madrid Campus, for several reasons.
“One of them could be that Díaz-Canel’s weakness increasingly worries the military leadership, so they expand their areas of control. Another reason could be that the FAR perceives popular discontent and wants to control the organs of Popular Power more and more to avoid any type of debate or popular demonstration,” he stressed.
“The ‘public’ appearance of the gangs, the arrival of the Russian ships and the economic and social situation in Cuba can produce an outbreak like 9/11. Faced with this possibility, The dictatorship is reinforced by granting more power to the FAR“he added.
