Fidel as Jesus
By Varela
From its beginnings, the Messianic-Biblical nature of the Cuban Revolution has been inserted subliminally in the minds of Cubans and the rest of the world. And it must be analyzed without passion. Later, let everyone reach his own conclusions.
After landing in Cuba, Fidel Castro was left with only 12 men (although some historians changed the number to delegitimize the subject.) There begins the first analogy with Jesus and the 12 apostles.
Then there’s the stuff about the beard and the celibacy (although Fidel was rumored to “know” women here and there, after Mirta Díaz-Balart came along no other woman was officially recognized and so it was for decades.) The Church also imposed a celibacy on Jesus’ image, though some experts claim that he dallied with the Magdalene woman.
Compare the triumphant arrivals in Havana and Jerusalem. Jesus came aboard a donkey and Fidel on a tank, which was pretty much the same because neither walked into the city and the crowds received the latter from balconies and on avenues, waving flags, and the former from windows and dusty streets, waving palm leaves.
And what about the miracles?
The blind regained their sight. Remember that many of those who left Cuba said later that their eyes were opened.
Turning water into wine. Bear in mind that, due to the economic problems that caused a shortage of beverages, Cubans have had to make do with weird fermentations, homemade brews and improvised mixtures.
The multiplication of fishes. It’s an open secret that Cuba’s rivers and reservoirs have filled with tilapias, catfish and other comestible aquatic creatures. Here in Miami, you pay a lot for tilapias at the Publix at Brickell and 13th Street, where the rich people buy them as a delicacy, just to show off their economic status.
Judas’ betrayal for 30 pieces of silver is replicated by the defection of dozens of former comrades-in-arms who have sold themselves to capitalism for that vile metal.
Finally, the resurrection.
Everybody saw Jesus die on the cross, be taken down, mourned, washed and placed in a cave/tomb with a rock blocking the entrance.
On the third day, they found the rock moved away, a shroud with the image of a body, and Jesus nowhere in sight. He later reappeared and met again with his acolytes to give them final instructions, before rising to Heaven.
The same has happened with Fidel. Everybody saw him relinquish his power (his cross), not the way many wanted (overthrown) but turned over of his own volition to his brother, just like Jesus relinquished his spirit to the Father.
And his image disappeared to feed rumors and stories; a fake picture of his corpse appeared on the Internet, a hundred theories about his death were bandied about, and suddenly, on the third year, he revived in reflections (his spirit) and later emerged in person to give final instructions to his followers.
The two men’s messages run parallel, almost on the same track, except that they’re separated by two thousand years: complete the harvest, achieve equality, emancipate minorities, flog the lenders and the merchants, help the poor and, as the crowning touch, give the alert to prevent disasters, epidemics, hunger, global warming … the Final Judgment … Armageddon … the International Debacle.
World history is divided into Before Christ and After Christ. Just like Cuban history is divided into Before Castro and After Castro.
You can’t find greater coincidences between any other two historic personages.
I’m not making this up. I just demonstrated it.
You can call him Marxist, communist, socialist, anti-American, anything else you want, but Fidel didn’t study in a Jesuit school for nothing.
