Havana, Mar 7 (Prensa Latina) The Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC) today rejected what it considers to be a war of disinformation and censorship around the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and which encourages Russophobia.
A statement from the UPEC Presidency criticizes actions to disconnect Russia, ban its media outlets and convict journalists.
These measures, never used in the face of the multiple invasions of the United States in numerous countries, are also an attack on culture, amplified to the point of the medieval inquisition with Russian literature and other artistic manifestations, a kind of neo-barbarism inconceivable in the presumed cultured Europe, says the statement.
Thanks to the censorship against Russia Today (RT), Sputnik and other Russian media, the only story that seems to exist is that of Washington, adds the text.
He notes that the United States, together with NATO, has proclaimed itself the judge of world truth and its communication platforms label the profiles of journalists who work for news media of Russian origin, but also of independent reporters and technical personnel who have provided services of outsourced form.
Nobody dared to do something similar with CNN and Fox News when they made possible the disinformation that ended with the massacre of a million people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and in a bloody chaos that still persists, adds the group of Cuban journalists.
UPEC reaffirmed in the declaration its peaceful vocation and solidarity with the victims of the conflict.
He also underlined his warning “about this war against information, against honest journalism and against culture, a war that demolishes concepts and values conquered by all of humanity throughout its history.”
The text concludes: disinformation is a crime against culture, and in the current circumstances it favors the apogee of neo-fascism and other evils.
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