Troy, a great epic of ancient times. Do you remember? Paris, the Trojan prince, abducted Helen, wife of Menelaus, the Greek king. Menelaus, his pride wounded, but with the true intention of seizing Troy and thus controlling its trade and strategic location, launched a great invasion that resulted in a total siege of Troy for ten years.

So, to put it in modern terms, which are also favored by high-ranking officials of the most powerful country on Earth, what do you think was happening in the "regimes" of both sides, both in Troy and in Greece?

It so happened in Troy that Priam, the King, Hector, his most famous son, Paris, the prince who, by abducting Helen, triggered the official "blockade" of Troy, as well as all the high-ranking Trojan officials, experienced neither hunger, nor thirst, nor want because whatever little there was, it was always allocated to them as "the ruling and powerful upper class."

Nor was anything different on the Greek side. Menelaus, Odysseus, Achilles, even Patroclus, his assistant, and all the high-ranking Greek leaders, lived in large tents surrounded by luxury and comfort.

So who suffered under the aforementioned "blockade"? Well, the entire population of Troy, from the poorest to the small merchants, but also the Greek soldiers and low-ranking officers, who slept in the open air, with little food and even fewer comforts.

But of course, "history" and its commentators only recount the "great adventures" of both "regimes," failing to include in their allegories, poems, and treatises the vast majority of human beings involved in this "blockade," those who are always vilified and forgotten in every chronicle. This applies to both sides, civilians and soldiers.

History is always told by the victors, in their own way and for their own convenience, but even they give preferential treatment to the already defeated power elites, thus lending greater luster to their victorious campaigns.

Is Achilles, for example, more of a hero than a Trojan father who, day after day for ten years, performs miracles and juggles to feed his children and even less fortunate neighbors, along with his wife and family? No. We already had someone walk this earth who taught us that "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

Think about it: Doesn't the current situation, which has persisted for decades, remind you of a Caribbean island and its powerful neighbor, of the "regimes" on both sides, blaming each other, yet not even the "great regime" acknowledges or accepts the fact that both populations are suffering under this "blockade"?

The narrative they tell should remind us of the forgotten victims of Troy and the great figures who played a part, on both sides. An epic that has passed into history. This modern epic will also pass, and those who most readily use the word "regime," knowing all this, always justify the blockade by arguing the advantages of the smaller "regime," but no one challenges them, exposes them, or makes them see the great truth of all wars and "blockades," whatever you call them: that those "at the bottom" are the ones who truly suffer.