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By Luis Ortega
THE leaders of the Cuban Revolution, from Fidel down, are going through a kind of drama with their offsprings. It is a quiet drama of a kind that seldom comes to the surface.
Before the Revolution, the children of those who were in government enjoyed great privileges. They were Daddy's children. To be the son of a political figure was already a carrier. One had even the freedom to kill. The Revolution finished those privileges without being asked.
Fidel's elder son, no sooner did he trip up, than he was removed from the scenes. Castro's children cannot even enter a cinema without having to pay. No one knows them. Blas Roca's son had to become a dissident for the world to notice that he existed. It is said that the sons of Efigenio Almejeiras live in Miami.
In Cuba today, the children of the leaders have to fend for themselves without the support and the influence of their parents. One can possibly imagine that to help one's children is almost a "sin". There are a number of children of political figures that are desperate to leave because there is no way they will take advantage of their parental position. Children always expect a degree of protection from their parents and if they do not receive it, they rebel and consider themselves mistreated.
It is a delicate issue. On the one hand paternal and maternal love that wishes to aid the offspring. Yet on the other political reason, a sense of justice, the fight against all privileges which is a reality in today Cuba.
It is something that honours today's Cuban leaders.
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