FIDEL CASTRO: FIRST TOP CUBAN MODEL OF A MULTINATIONAL COMPANY.

   FIDEL CASTRO: FIRST TOP CUBAN MODEL OF A MULTINATIONAL COMPANY.

  After our Commander in Chief suffered that spectacular fall on the steps down of a stage where he had offered another of his long speeches of glory, nationalism and other needs, it seems that it made him see that he was mortal as every human being. Did that trance humanize it?

  The flattering journalists gave few notes of the consequence of that spectacular fall in front of all the people who still endured their usual harangues. I remember "The Chronicles of a Rest" of the newspaper Granma, so that the people knew that the commander, recovering, still dealt with the affairs of the country.

  Then it was worse. Came his strange operation that was kept secret, although later they called a famous Spanish doctor to say “that they had done everything well” -How many dollars they have paid him? - the same surgeons who had operated the beloved Comandante Chávez years before , so that the people and the bad tongues of the world didn't suspect the ability of Cuban doctors.

  They attended to that human being - Fidel Castro - who, like other “immortals” in history such as Greta Garbo, Lenin, Stalin, etc., had created the legend of the mystery, the gift of ubiquity and who only knew their private life Ministers and closest relatives. -The population did not imagine that he shits and had sex as a mere mortal- No. The Gods don't do those things.

  Well, after the operation, the TV presented a commander who looked like a ghost: old age highlighted pre-morten features: gray-haired, with a white beard and like an obedient and sad child. But that was nothing. It seems that the beloved Commander had retrospectively seen how the utopian socialist or communist society had failed, and that had hit him more than his illness.

  Apparently, disappointed, he loosened and gave a chance to the capitalist transnationals or at least that seemed. I don't know if the image of a defeated communist and flexing his arms was fixed on TV around the world, to show that he was still alive, and with a sports team that said: Fidel Castro Ruz. But there was a detail that I think not much noticed. 

  The sports team sponsored him were no less than the multinational ADIDAS. After speaking for so many years of colonizing capitalism that changed until the dress of the people of underdeveloped countries with the corresponding Ideological Amusement. He was Adidas TOP MODEL for the world, in exchange for no one knows which deal. For the Cuban people I know it wasn't that brand. Look at our Commander in his last weeks!

  He had already recognized his mortality and prepared his will. Very easy. That he was cremated - he was very old and emaciated to mummify him like the old pharaohs or Lenin - but that his Mausoleum was next to Marti's, from whom he descended directly, not by inheritance of blood but by convenient confluence with his ideology. 

 And in a stone that inspired solidity and simplicity, as his Ego had been and with his simple name nothing more: FIDEL. Simple modesty?

  Already his flatterers would be responsible for walking his ashes throughout Cuba and an honor guard would guard his grave. Ultimate cult of the personality of an egotist.

  This was our first male TOP MODEL in his last days. A small concession to the "discredited" consumer society.

                        ORLANDO VICENTE ALVAREZ