Caimanera: Keys to a Media Creation
The protest of a dozen people in Caimanera,
Cuba, due to the power cuts and the lack of food,
has restored hope to those who dream
of the fall of the Cuban Revolution.
But let's review the media keys to the events.
The first is the magnification of a specific event,
of short duration and with few participants,
but which certain media turned into a
"massive protest" in which
"Cubans once again take to the streets". Curiously, a few days ago,
these media did not consider
the marches – massive marches, with millions of people-
held throughout Cuba on 1st May Day.
The protest for economic reasons only took place in Caimanera,
despite the fact that fictitious “uprisings”
in Holguín, Marianao and other places appeared on social networks.
All lie. But this hoax unleashed the machinery of hatred:
requests for a military invasion of Cuba;
calls for insurrection by
millionaire anti-Castro singers...
Also complaints from the NGOs to which the US Government
pays for their “reports on human rights in Cuba”
through NED and USAID grants:
the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights,
the Cuban Observatory on Conflicts, Cubalex, etc., etc.
And the usual double standards. Let´s do a very simple test.
See the images of the police beating
protesters in Paris or Lima, for mention
two recent protest scenes.
Then watch the video of the events in Caimanera,
in which a member of the public force struggles
with a person to arrest him. Of course, turn off the sound,
because the screams of the person recording are unbearable.
In the protests in Peru there were close to sixty deaths,
in France hundreds of people were injured and numerous arrests.
But the mainstream media endorse the word "repression"
to the actions of a Cuban policeman who,
with great difficulty and with a negligible level of violence,
detains a person in resistance.
CNN: "Cuban police repress protesters..."
Telemundo: "Protests in Cuba unleash repression
by the regime”.
Infobae: "Repression in Cuba:
the dictatorship arrested at least five protesters..."
América TV: "Militaries carry out brutal repression
to appease the massive protest in Caimanera".
On channel NTN 24 in Colombia - that country where
nearly 80 people died in the 2021 protests
and where 189 human rights activists
were killed only in 2022- the presenter sighed for
the "harsh repression ” in Cuba:
“What has led Cubans to take to the streets again?
We understand the circumstance but,
after such harsh repression, are you protesting again?"
The economic hardships suffered by the Cuban people
which generate protests like the one in Caimanera,
must be described with all drama.
"We are talking about an absolute crisis,
a hunger crisis, because especially
in recent days we have seen information regarding
rationing that is being established again".
While intentionally it´s hidden
the economic war that this situation generates.
The Government of Donald Trump applied the so-called
“maximum pressure policy” against Cuba,
imposed more than 200 sanctions, the total financial blockade
of the country and the systematic persecution of income, fuel
and investments towards the Island.
Measures that are maintained for the most part. This is, along with the effect of the pandemic
on tourism, the direct cause of the situation.
Not only any mention of the US blockade
is censored in the media, but, following
Washington's strategy, blame for
the crisis is endorsed on Havana: “This is the result: misery,
a devastated economy precisely because the regime
doesn´t work, the system doesn´t work”.
The person who affirmed this is one of the many "political analysts" that
the US government manages to embed in the international media. He is Félix Llerena,
representative of “Cuba Decide”, a group based in Miami
supported with subsidies from the NED and which openly defends
the total economic blockade against the Island.
Is it now clear to you that in Cuba there is a lack of light and food
because the “Cuban system doesn´t work”, even if
a man who receives his salary from the government that blocks
the economy of that country is who is telling us that?
Translated & Subtituleb by Laura V. Mor.