Madrid/The recent interview with the Israel Rojas singer and songwriter in the program The desktopof The young Cuba (LJC), has unleashed intense controversies at both ends of the Cuban political spectrum. For some, it was an attempt to “face washing” to one of the most unfriendly figures for exile; For others, especially from sectors related to the regime, it was an unacceptable betrayal: how is it possible for Rojas to appear in a medium “financed by the enemy”?
For years, there is no lack of those who see The young Cuba as a kind of cultural supplement of Granma or a diluted version of Cubadebate. Founded in Matanzas by Harold Cárdenas in 2010, she was born under the wing of the so -called reformist ruling. Over time, outside Cuba, their texts began to move between the mesurated criticism and the calculated winks that allow them to preserve their condition of “valid interlocutors” for power on the island.
That ambiguity worked for them. But the 11J social outbreak marked a watershed
During the Obama era and the thaw, that ambiguity worked for them. But the 11J social outbreak marked a watershed. LJC did not know – or did not want to incorporate in his speech the historical weight of that break. They clung to their narrative trenches as if the country remained the same as 2010, when they were barely a university blog. That is why it is not surprising that today they are judged with hardness from both flanks. Its lukewarm is incomprehensible in a country where street and hopelessness demand lighter definitions.
His ambivalent strategy – designed for some, opportunistic for others – made them lose followers. Some weight voices stopped writing on their pages. And his mocking tone, almost childish, to other media that lost financing after the closure of the USAID, looked like the final nail in his coffin. However, we must recognize that The desktop It has been his resurrection, a “Lazarus, get up and go” that has returned them to the center of the debate and has made them win new followers.
The numbers do not lie. The interview with Israel Rojas exceeded 50,000 visits on YouTube, while the last broadcast of With edge As soon as it touches 7,000, even less than the army of cyberclaria forced to inflate its metrics. It is not the algorithm; It is the boredom. And it is evident that Etecsa’s restrictions have also hit the “cybercombatory.”
We saw a disenchanted Red Israel, defeated, turned into a kind of love bear with selective amnesia
In The desktop We saw a disenchanted Red Israel, defeated, turned into a kind of love bear with selective amnesia. The poet of the “bulb” and the “tiñosa” seems to have forgotten that the 27N was present, but not on the side of the artists, but locked in the offices of the Ministry of Culture. The 11J also took to the streets, but not with the peaceful protesters, but after receiving the “combat order”, aligned with police and military dressed in civilians. He arrived at the ICRT willing to “give sticks”, although late: they had already mounted us in a rubble truck towards the Vivac.
Now, Cubadebate –AutoProclapado defender of sovereignty – attacks him by hiring the pen of a foreigner. Carlos González, an Asturian communist (not to confuse with mind political), accuses him of having fallen into “the trap of equidistance”, while resorting to the old man and stunning slogan of the besieged fortress. For this radical, the enemy is no longer the US, but the perfidious Norway. Shortly after, Michel Torres Corona – more anxious to fly to Madrid that for defending the revolution – echoes those words on Facebook and qualifies them as “enlightening.”
The Cuban model is collapsed. And each of its fragments competes so as not to be crushed in the collapse
Hypothesis circulate that all this would be part of a state security operation: some faithful artist is returned but without muses, and LJC is repositioned as a victim of both extremes, thus renewing its legitimacy. Frankly, I don’t think they are so ready.
The Cuban model is collapsed. And each of its fragments competes so as not to be crushed in the collapse. Israel Rojas wants to turn internationally without having to sing for four cats in solidarity movements. The young Cuba You need to recover audience and hold your financing. Becoming a victim of cross attacks comes as a ring, as long as it allows them to appeal to that wide sector that, as in every society, prefers to avoid polarization.
Nor Donald Trump or Xi Jinping would move a single aircraft carrier by Cuba
Ideological Taliban, on the other hand, act as their nature dictates. Although they feel the tremor under their feet, they must respond to their international allies, which are often more Castro than Castro himself. That radicalism assures them scholarships, trips, forums, positions, awards, brotherhoods and red hearts, in the form of Likes.
Ideology, in this context, seems to have reached unsuspected levels of prostitution. And in this great geopolitical brothel, neither Donald Trump nor Xi Jinping would move a single aircraft carrier by Cuba. That weeping, epic and rancid speech of Israel Rojas about “the besieged Islite that resists more than anyone”, no longer serves as a letter of a hit of cast.
The regime failed. They all know: good faith, The young CubaDíaz-Canel, Cubadebate. The only unknown is who clings to more bricks … while the building falls apart.
