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Cuba is entering a critical phase of political and moral decline as its regime continues sending citizens to die far from home to support other ideologically aligned governments.
This is neither a biased interpretation nor rhetorical exaggeration. It is a fact acknowledged by the Cuban state itself, which has admitted the deaths of 32 compatriots in Venezuela “in the line of duty”—a bureaucratic phrase that hides a much harsher reality: men sent to uphold Nicolás Maduro’s regime while the island empties, grows poorer, and fades away.
Sometimes, the international stage offers clearer diagnoses than long diplomatic reports. When the U.S. president stated that Cuba “is falling apart” and that it doesn’t need any push because it is “going down for the count,” he was describing a process visible for years.
He was not referring to military intervention or a direct threat, but to the internal exhaustion of a system that has lost economic capacity, social legitimacy, and political horizon. Cuba does not collapse due to external pressures; it collapses by its own design.
Who sustains this regime today, and at what cost? It is sustained by a political and military elite that has turned the export of security and repression into a source of survival.
Venezuela is the clearest example. The Cuban presence there does not respond to cultural or healthcare cooperation, but to the direct protection of a government cornered by its own incompetence and popular rejection.
The 32 officially recognized deaths are only the visible part of a commitment that has never been debated transparently or approved by the Cuban people.
These events occur at the island’s worst internal moment in decades: food shortages, constant power outages, collapse of the healthcare system, and massive emigration that has torn families apart.
Parents watch their children leave, mothers are left alone, youth see no future. Meanwhile, the regime decides its priority is sustaining Maduro, not ensuring the safety, dignity, or stability of Cuban households.
History offers uncomfortable parallels. Chile in the 1970s experienced the collapse of an ideological project incapable of maintaining economic and social order.
With necessary distinctions, the pattern repeats: governments that promise justice but end up destroying institutions, eroding legitimate authority, and resorting to force as a last resource.
When the economy fails and internal control weakens, revolutionary epic and external enemies are invoked to justify everything.
In Cuba, order is no longer maintained by consensus or results, but by fear and surveillance. Laws are enforced harshly against dissenters and leniently toward the apparatus of power.
Public security deteriorates, the informal economy replaces the state, and families are reduced to a daily struggle to survive. This is not stability; it is managed decay.
That is why it is revealing that outsiders suggest the system is collapsing on its own. Regimes built against freedom, property, and individual responsibility do not need to be overthrown—they implode.
Every death in Venezuela, every young person fleeing the island, every blackout is another crack.
Yet the international left continues to deny the evidence. It justifies dictatorships, whitewashes repression, and frames these failures as the result of external conspiracies. This irresponsibility has real consequences: it prolongs suffering, normalizes disorder, and disregards the family as a social core.
Against that narrative, conservative values offer a clear and verifiable warning: without law, legitimate authority, and respect for life and family, no political project endures. Cuba is today the harshest proof of this.
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Rafa Gómez-Santos Martín
Rafael Santos is a Portuguese writer and political analyst dedicated to educating Hispanics on traditional values and the importance of protecting children and families. With years of experience in media and public discourse, he has been a strong advocate for cultural preservation and moral principles in an ever-changing world. Passionate about culture, sports, and current affairs, Rafael brings insightful analysis to political and social debates, striving to empower the Hispanic community with knowledge and a deeper understanding of the issues that shape their lives.
