{
  "title": "CAPÍTULO 2: LA ANATOMÍA DE LA LIQUIDACIÓN / CHAPTER 2: THE ANATOMY OF LIQUIDATION",
  "author": "Caerith Alondar",
  "source_url": "https://caerithbooks.com/p/capitulo-2-la-anatomia-de-la-liquidacion",
  "excerpt": "CUBA SE HA CONVERTIDO EN UN ZOO. / CUBA HAS BECOME A ZOO",
  "published_date": "2026-10-24T14:33:00.000Z",
  "content": "<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://caerith.substack.com/i/222318611/espanol\">READ IN SPANISH / LEER EN ESPA&#209;OL</a></h2><div class=\"captioned-image-container\"><figure><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rhtl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ea3f20f-2739-462c-8aaf-47f98fa05e26_3651x1953.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\"><div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source type=\"image/webp\" srcset=\"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rhtl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ea3f20f-2739-462c-8aaf-47f98fa05e26_3651x1953.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rhtl!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ea3f20f-2739-462c-8aaf-47f98fa05e26_3651x1953.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rhtl!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ea3f20f-2739-462c-8aaf-47f98fa05e26_3651x1953.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rhtl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ea3f20f-2739-462c-8aaf-47f98fa05e26_3651x1953.jpeg 1456w\" sizes=\"100vw\"><img src=\"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rhtl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ea3f20f-2739-462c-8aaf-47f98fa05e26_3651x1953.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"779\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3ea3f20f-2739-462c-8aaf-47f98fa05e26_3651x1953.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:779,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1596716,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://caerith.substack.com/i/222318611?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ea3f20f-2739-462c-8aaf-47f98fa05e26_3651x1953.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" class=\"sizing-normal\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rhtl!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ea3f20f-2739-462c-8aaf-47f98fa05e26_3651x1953.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rhtl!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ea3f20f-2739-462c-8aaf-47f98fa05e26_3651x1953.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rhtl!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ea3f20f-2739-462c-8aaf-47f98fa05e26_3651x1953.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rhtl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ea3f20f-2739-462c-8aaf-47f98fa05e26_3651x1953.jpeg 1456w\" sizes=\"100vw\" fetchpriority=\"high\"></picture><div class=\"image-link-expand\"><div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset\"><button tabindex=\"0\" type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" viewBox=\"0 0 20 20\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"var(--color-fg-primary)\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" class=\"icon-noB79L\"><g><path d=\"M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882\"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex=\"0\" type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><svg xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" class=\"lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L\"><polyline points=\"15 3 21 3 21 9\"></polyline><polyline points=\"9 21 3 21 3 15\"></polyline><line x1=\"21\" x2=\"14\" y1=\"3\" y2=\"10\"></line><line x1=\"3\" x2=\"10\" y1=\"21\" y2=\"14\"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>CHAPTER 2: THE ANATOMY OF LIQUIDATION</h3><p><strong>I. THE MORAL SAFARI OF THE METROPOLIS</strong></p><p>For a certain European metropolitan Left, the Cuban tragedy has never been a matter of human rights or real economics. It has been an aesthetic accessory.</p><p>It is a privilege that can only be afforded by someone who has never stood for seven hours in the sun to secure a loaf of bread; someone who has never seen their mother boil water with leaves to soothe a child&#8217;s hunger during a twenty-hour blackout; and someone who has never felt the fear of speaking in a whisper inside their own home out of dread of the neighborhood CDR informer.</p><p>From comfortable parliamentary seats in Europe, they look at the Caribbean and do not see ten million hostages; they see a theme park for their domestic political battles. They do not pay a single penny to sustain that lie. The price is paid by the biological attrition of an entire people.</p><p><strong>II. THE PROOF OF HUNGER: THE 1842 CODE VS. THE </strong><em><strong>ACOPIO</strong></em></p><p>Propaganda has repeated ad nauseam that the Revolution redeemed the Cuban people from a semi-feudal condition. Let us subject that claim to numbers.</p><p>In colonial Cuba, Article 11 of the <em>Bando de Gobernaci&#243;n y Polic&#237;a</em> (Governance and Police Edict) of November 14, 1842, legally obligated the master to supply each slave daily with: six to eight ounces of meat or salted fish, root vegetables (<em>viandas</em>), and two hot meals a day. This amounted to nearly fifteen pounds of animal protein per month guaranteed by law to sustain the harvest and milling.</p><p>One hundred and eighty years later, a citizen receives through the MINCIN ration book&#8212;whenever it is available: one pound of chicken per month; zero ounces of beef (slaughtering a cow is penalized with up to fifteen years in prison); zero grams of milk for anyone over seven years old; and seven pounds of rice for thirty days.</p><p>The colonial slave legally received more protein in two days than a Cuban citizen receives in an entire month under the current system. This regression has been defended in Europe as &#8220;sovereign dignity.&#8221;</p><p><strong>III. THE </strong><em><strong>ACOPIO</strong></em><strong> AS A WEAPON OF DOMESTICATION</strong></p><p>Hunger in Cuba is not a planning error. It is a mechanism of control.</p><p>When the regime dismantled private agriculture and established the monopoly of <em>Acopio</em> (state crop requisition), it was not seeking to feed the country; it was seeking to strip the citizen of their biological autonomy. The peasant farmer is forced to hand over up to 90% of their harvest at prices fixed by the State. If they attempt to sell a sack of malanga directly to a family, the cargo is confiscated and the farmer is imprisoned for &#8220;illicit economic activity.&#8221;</p><p>A human being who spends fourteen hours a day searching for a pound of salt or a head of garlic has neither the time nor the energy to organize a strike or draft a manifesto. The <em>acopio</em> is the corral. The ration book is the leash. The most asphyxiating blockade Cuba suffers is not at sea; it is in the decrees that forbid Cubans from planting, fishing on their own coasts, and trading with their neighbors.</p><p><strong>IV. THE VOYEURISM OF RUIN</strong></p><p>There is a distinct perversion in the visitor who travels to Havana to consume decay as art. They arrive on a commercial flight, stay in a hotel managed by a foreign chain in partnership with GAESA&#8212;complete with air conditioning and a fully stocked buffet&#8212;and step out into Centro Habana with a camera slung around their neck. They marvel at the 1957 Chevrolets and the cracked columns, writing about the &#8220;poetry of frozen time&#8221; and an &#8220;authenticity free from consumerism.&#8221;</p><p>What is picturesque to the tourist is a death trap for the family living behind that facade. Those walls are not frozen in time; they are collapsing onto cribs. Every time it rains, ceilings cave in during what the official press euphemistically calls &#8220;partial collapses.&#8221; The tourist holds a passport and a return ticket. They do not have to live out their days in the cemetery they praise.</p><p><strong>V. THE BANKRUPTCY OF THE ALIBI</strong></p><p>The myth survives in the West because it satisfies a psychological need: recognizing that the regime was, from day one, an involution that dismantled a prosperous republic would force that Left to admit the failure of its own collectivist dogmas. They prefer to sacrifice a nation upon the altar of their intellectual pride.</p><p>That time is now over. From Liverpool, from the heart of the territory where those careers are built upon our backs, this book wrests the microphone away from them. Cuba is not your moral laboratory. Cuba was a sovereign, cultured, and prosperous Republic, mutilated in 1959 by a de facto liquidator and kept on artificial life support by the complicity of those who, having the freedom to see the truth, chose the luxury of ignorance.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong><span>A Note on Sovereignty:</span></strong><br><em><span>The Dissenter</span></em><span> is 100% free, uncompromised, and carries zero corporate ads or algorithmic sponsors. This archive is funded entirely by reader sovereignty.</span></p><p><span>If you value independent intellectual critique, consider backing this work for $5/month. 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If you value uncompromised literature and forensic critique, become a sovereign subscriber today.</p></div><form class=\"subscription-widget-subscribe\"><input type=\"email\" class=\"email-input\" name=\"email\" placeholder=\"Type your email&#8230;\" tabindex=\"-1\"><input type=\"submit\" class=\"button primary\" value=\"Subscribe\"><div class=\"fake-input-wrapper\"><div class=\"fake-input\"></div><div class=\"fake-button\"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">ESPA&#209;OL  </h2><div class=\"captioned-image-container\"><figure><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RfzO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7099c8a-db71-4a87-ae03-8584915e6bac_3651x1953.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\"><div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source type=\"image/webp\" 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xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" class=\"lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L\"><polyline points=\"15 3 21 3 21 9\"></polyline><polyline points=\"9 21 3 21 3 15\"></polyline><line x1=\"21\" x2=\"14\" y1=\"3\" y2=\"10\"></line><line x1=\"3\" x2=\"10\" y1=\"21\" y2=\"14\"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>CAP&#205;TULO 2: LA ANATOM&#205;A DE LA LIQUIDACI&#211;N<br>CUBA SE HA CONVERTIDO EN UN ZOO.</p><p>I. EL SAFARI MORAL DE LA METR&#211;POLI</p><p>Para cierta izquierda metropolitana europea, la tragedia cubana nunca ha sido una cuesti&#243;n de derechos humanos ni de econom&#237;a real. Ha sido un accesorio est&#233;tico.</p><p>Es un privilegio que solo puede permitirse quien jam&#225;s ha hecho una cola de siete horas bajo el sol para conseguir pan; quien jam&#225;s ha visto a su madre hervir agua con hojas para calmar el hambre de un ni&#241;o en un apag&#243;n de veinte horas; y quien jam&#225;s ha sentido el miedo de hablar en susurro en su propia casa por temor al vecino del CDR.</p><p>Desde esca&#241;os c&#243;modos en Europa, miran al Caribe y no ven diez millones de rehenes; ven un parque tem&#225;tico para sus batallas dom&#233;sticas. No pagan un penique por sostener esa mentira. El precio lo paga el desgaste biol&#243;gico de un pueblo entero.</p><p>II. LA PRUEBA DEL HAMBRE: EL C&#211;DIGO DE 1842 FRENTE AL ACOPIO</p><p>La propaganda ha repetido que la Revoluci&#243;n redimi&#243; al cubano de una condici&#243;n semifeudal. Sometamos eso a n&#250;meros.</p><p>En la Cuba colonial, el Bando de Gobernaci&#243;n y Polic&#237;a de 14 de noviembre de 1842, en su Art&#237;culo 11, obligaba al amo a suministrar diariamente a cada esclavo: de seis a ocho onzas de carne o pescado salado, viandas y dos comidas calientes al d&#237;a. Cerca de quince libras de prote&#237;na animal al mes garantizadas por ley para sostener la molienda.</p><p>Ciento ochenta a&#241;os despu&#233;s, un ciudadano recibe por la libreta del MINCIN, cuando existe: una libra de pollo al mes; cero onzas de carne de res (su sacrificio est&#225; penado con hasta quince a&#241;os de c&#225;rcel); cero gramos de leche para mayores de siete a&#241;os; y siete libras de arroz para treinta d&#237;as.</p><p>El esclavo colonial recib&#237;a por mandato legal m&#225;s prote&#237;na en dos d&#237;as que un ciudadano cubano en un mes bajo el sistema actual. Ese descenso ha sido defendido en Europa como &#8220;dignidad soberana.&#8221;</p><p>III. EL ACOPIO COMO ARMA DE DOMESTICACI&#211;N</p><p>El hambre en Cuba no es un error de planificaci&#243;n. Es un dispositivo de control.</p><p>Cuando el r&#233;gimen desmantel&#243; la agricultura privada e instaur&#243; el monopolio del Acopio, no buscaba alimentar al pa&#237;s; buscaba despojar al ciudadano de su autonom&#237;a biol&#243;gica. El campesino est&#225; obligado a entregar hasta el 90% de su cosecha a precios fijados por el Estado. Si intenta vender un saco de malangas directamente a una familia, le requisan la carga y lo encarcelan por actividad econ&#243;mica il&#237;cita.</p><p>Un ser humano que pasa catorce horas al d&#237;a buscando una libra de sal o una cabeza de ajo no tiene tiempo ni energ&#237;a para organizar una huelga o redactar un manifiesto. El acopio es el corral. La libreta es la correa. El bloqueo m&#225;s asfixiante que sufre Cuba no est&#225; en el mar; est&#225; en los decretos que le proh&#237;ben al cubano sembrar, pescar en sus propias costas y comerciar con su vecino.</p><p>IV. EL VOYEURISMO DE LA RUINA</p><p>Hay una perversi&#243;n en el visitante que viaja a La Habana a consumir la decadencia como arte. Llega en vuelo comercial, se hospeda en un hotel gestionado por una cadena extranjera en sociedad con GAESA, con aire acondicionado y buf&#233; repleto, y sale a Centro Habana con la c&#225;mara colgada. Se maravilla ante los Chevrolet de 1957 y las columnas agrietadas y escribe sobre la &#8220;poes&#237;a del tiempo detenido&#8221; y la &#8220;autenticidad libre del consumismo.&#8221;</p><p>Lo que para &#233;l es pintoresco, para la familia detr&#225;s de esa fachada es una trampa mortal. Esas paredes no est&#225;n detenidas en el tiempo; se est&#225;n cayendo sobre las cunas. Cada vez que llueve, los techos colapsan en lo que la prensa oficial llama &#8220;derrumbes parciales.&#8221; El turista tiene un pasaporte y un billete de regreso. No tiene que quedarse a vivir en el cementerio que alaba.</p><p>V. LA QUIEBRA DE LA COARTADA</p><p>El mito sobrevive en Occidente porque satisface una necesidad psicol&#243;gica: reconocer que el r&#233;gimen fue desde el primer d&#237;a una involuci&#243;n que desmantel&#243; una rep&#250;blica pr&#243;spera obligar&#237;a a esa izquierda a admitir el fracaso de sus dogmas colectivistas. Prefieren sacrificar a una naci&#243;n en el altar de su orgullo intelectual.</p><p>Ese tiempo se ha terminado. Desde Liverpool, desde el coraz&#243;n del territorio donde se construyen esas carreras sobre nuestras espaldas, este libro les arrebata el micr&#243;fono. Cuba no es su laboratorio moral. Cuba fue una Rep&#250;blica soberana, culta y pr&#243;spera, mutilada en 1959 por un liquidador de facto y mantenida en respiraci&#243;n artificial por la complicidad de quienes, teniendo la libertad de ver la verdad, eligieron el lujo de la ignorancia.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong><span>A Note on Sovereignty:</span></strong><br><em><span>The Dissenter</span></em><span> is 100% free, uncompromised, and carries zero corporate ads or algorithmic sponsors. This archive is funded entirely by reader sovereignty.</span></p><div><hr></div><div class=\"subscription-widget-wrap-editor\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://caerith.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}\" data-component-name=\"SubscribeWidgetToDOM\"><div class=\"subscription-widget show-subscribe\"><div class=\"preamble\"><p class=\"cta-caption\">Caerith Alondar | Novelist &amp; Essayist. This work exists outside the algorithmic corral. 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