The day Cuba becomes free, we will have to thank many friends, but those who have contributed to perpetuating the socialist tyranny ought to hang their heads in shame. Such is the case with the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA, in Spanish).

This Mexican political force, which rose to the presidency in 2018 following the electoral victory of its founder, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has recently insisted on countering the Trump administration’s oil embargo against the Havana regime.

Now, moreover, an investigation by the independent newspaper Diario de Cuba has revealed that the government of leftist Claudia Sheinbaum played a key role in printing books for the Castroist education system — the primary engine of socialist indoctrination through which the State transforms and controls the minds of generations of Cubans.

Following the 1961 Law on the Nationalization of Education, some 350 Catholic schools and 100 Protestant ones — along with religious universities like Santo Tomás de Villanueva, which boasted seven faculties, two of them English-language — were confiscated overnight.

With that move, as Cuban political scientist Dimas Castellanos remarked to me a few years ago, “hundreds of members of religious orders and thousands of nuns dedicated to education had to be sent to other countries, thereby fulfilling the main objective of ‘nationalization’: absolute dominance of the ruling ideology.”

And thanks to MORENA, the materials needed to maintain that absolute dominance are available today. Mexican funding for Cuban school textbooks began during the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The website Mexicanos contra la corrupción y la impunidad (Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity) revealed that between 2023 and 2024, Mexico allocated more than 387.4 million pesos (approximately $22,376,654 at the exchange rate) to print 15 million books for state schools on the island.

All of this was funded by Mexican taxpayers. Under the new contract signed during the Sheinbaum administration, public spending exceeded 576.8 million pesos, covering the production of around 22 million copies.

The process involves collaboration among several state institutions: one contracts the printing, another produces the books, and a third handles transport, ensuring the books travel from Mexico to the island for distribution by Editorial Pueblo y Educación, an entity affiliated with the Castro regime’s Ministry of Education.

The Cuban government designs the content and curricula, while the Mexican government funds their large-scale reproduction. “These are Cuban books — printed and paid for by Mexico — that incorporate political organizations, historical interpretations, and values promoted by the Castro regime, starting in primary school and extending to the tenth-grade official narrative regarding the [anti-government] 11J protests,” noted Diario de Cuba.

The Cuban school year began in September. As the days went by, various Cuban parents — many of them Christians — took to social media to express their dissatisfaction and criticism regarding the political content of several books.

Jasiel Piñeiro, rector of the Pinos Nuevos Seminary, invoked the Barmen Declaration and the absolute lordship of Christ over all of life. He criticized the inclusion of Fidel Castro’s image in one of the books, rejecting the idea “that there are areas of our lives where we must obey other lords — ideologies or political dictates — instead of Jesus Christ.”

Another Christian leader and young father, David Espinosa, denounced the fact that the official 10th grade “Political Culture” textbook included a chapter portraying international coverage of the July 11, 2021, anti-communist protests as “fake news,” thereby turning the crackdown on the social uprising into indoctrination material for adolescents.

Others, such as Pentecostal leader Felipe David Matos, criticized the socialist state’s false secularism, noting that deities from Yoruba religious traditions are mentioned on a page of one of the books slated for circulation among Cuban students.

The rebellion of these parents is significant. They are confronting the dictates of totalitarianism and one of its sources of power: the education system — a system so vital to Havana that opening a school independent of the state is illegal in Cuba, and parents even face threats and imprisonment for homeschooling.

According to Castellanos, “one cannot mold useful individuals — citizens — by subordinating education and the human person to an ideology or political agenda; certainly not when all power is concentrated in a Party-State-Government subservient to a single man, which is what has happened in our country.”

In his view, “decentralizing the state monopoly on education is essential if teachers are to cease being mere conduits for cognitive and ideological content generated by” the Communist Party.