The businessman and anti-communist fighter Manuel Milanés made public a manifesto that summarizes his position on the present and future of Cuba. In his Political Testament, published on January 30, 2025, he reaffirms his rejection of any dialogue with the communist regime and demands justice for those responsible for the repression. Milanés warns that any attempt at conciliation with the dictatorship will completely betray the struggle for freedom.
From his regular YouTube program, he openly criticizes opponents, who have proposed a plebiscite and the possibility of negotiating free elections with the regime. According to Milanés, these strategies would only give oxygen to the dictatorship, allowing it to reorganize and perpetuate itself in power.
The founder of the Council for Anticommunist War (CPGA) considers that experiences in other countries, such as Venezuela, have shown that agreed transitions end up consolidating corrupt structures. Only a total rupture with Castroism can guarantee real change, he explains.
Milanés insists that repressors, criminals, and Communist Party leaders must be tried and imprisoned. He rejects any possibility of amnesty and compares his proposal to the prosecution of war criminals after World War II. For him, without, justice there will be no real freedom in Cuba.
For the businessman, who a few months ago was on the verge of death, any opponent who negotiates with the totalitarian dictatorship will be considered a traitor and will be treated as such. He warned that his movement would enforce these decrees in a future free Cuba.
Milanés assures that his struggle is not political, but an apostolate. He declares that even if he dies before seeing a free Cuba, his followers must maintain uncompromising resistance. He affirms that true freedom will be achieved only with a firm stance and without negotiations with the regime.
With a discourse of confrontation, Milanés reaffirms his opposition to any attempt at a transition agreed with Castroism. His call is for a struggle to the last consequences, without dialogue or pacts with those who have oppressed the Cuban people for decades.
Central points of the political testament of Manuel Milanés
- Rejection of dialogue with the dictatorship
- Crime and punishment: Justice for those responsible
- Frontal opposition to any government that emerges from an agreement with tyranny.
- Intransigent position of the Council for the Anticommunist War (CPGA)
- Commitment to the struggle until total freedom
Source: Periódido Cubano