Made with lies as it is, the Cuban regime will succumb to journalism made with truths.
HAVANA, Cuba. – With the regime’s celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the creation of the newspaper Granma, The usual puppets appear trying to pass off as an achievement of the “genius of Fidel Castro” an event that represents the moment in which, officially, the dictatorship decrees and concretizes the end of the free press, of freedom of opinion, as well as criminalizes the exercise of journalism.
One of those many ideological propaganda programs that the Communist Party has on national television, which it directs and finances with the State budget, has already seen, among others, Yoerky Sánchez Cuellar, the director recently released from the “official organ of the PCC”telling with overflowing emotion anecdotes about how Fidel Castro himself wrote editorials or rewrote articles and news signed by others, as a common practice that extended almost until the dictator’s final days.
“To the principal’s office [de Granma] everyone called him ‘Fidel’s office’” and “the Granma It was not printed until Fidel ordered it,” was heard in the Round Table on October 6th. The official spokespersons have also highlighted that in the workshops the workers and editors waited with folded arms until well into the early hours of the morning for the “Supreme Chief” to give the signal to turn on the machines. We had to wait until Castro amended the plans with his “corrections.” These and others are the “nice memories” of the Cuban “journalists.”
And they say it visibly moved, as if they were actually convinced that this perpetual act of censorship, of arrogance, of total contempt for the journalistic profession and the people who exercise it (even if only as a simulation), had been a point of evolution and not one of the most regrettable episodes of repression, of political violence in the history of Castroism, as well as one of the pillars that have sustained it for decades until it began to erode with the arrival of the Internet in Cuba and the proliferation of independent media that are increasingly more professional, as well as willing to continue their work of informing despite the obstacles and dangers involved in seeking information where access to it is a privilege or a crime at the same level as a “betrayal of the homeland.”
But access to the internet (with the restrictions that exist) is something that did not happen because of “political will” or because one day Raúl Castro woke up repentant of the perversity of the god Fidel, but because he had no choice but to accept the “necessary evil” of the internet, just as they once did with tourism, foreign investments and the “private sector”, which, with blows and blows, they have been politically accommodating to their “needs”. to the point of completely ruining them, in the image and likeness of the ruin that the communists represent for themselves.
Thus, the economic and political crisis that they have insistently and conveniently wanted to attribute to the “blockade” (to shake off the issue, just as they have done with garbage, turning it into a “community” problem), is actually the result of what they have wanted to do with tourism, foreign investments, the “private sector” (and so on everywhere they get involved) and even the press: turn them into “other things” that they seem to be but that in reality are not. they are, that is, distorting them, and raising above their remains what they try to pass off as “unique” products, innovative, and which in reality are nothing more than something very painful, mediocre.
With journalism, the cruelty has been more intense as it has always been identified with the most dangerous “enemy”, since, exercised as it should be, it has to do in the first instance with the search for the truth, beyond ideological affiliations or political militancy, of loyalties that are none other than those due to the professionalism of the exercise, and Castroism only has one enemy, which is not a foreign country, nor an empire, nor internal or external forces, but the truth.
Tourism, foreign investments, the “private sector” are necessary evils because they have nothing to replace them with (since the ideal of “government” is to exercise power absolutely without questioning or accounts to be rendered or paid), but even so, they know that the common tourist is not looking for the truth but for the lie that has been sold to them; that the businessman comes to make money and, if he finally does, he does not question the reality that favors him, as well as that the “private sector”, so willing to do business with those who despise them and defraud them outright, is also willing to engage in other complicities if that means their lives are spared. In short, an extremely stupid reasoning but, unfortunately, abundant in Cuba.
Journalism can never fall into such nonsense because, when it does, tragedies occur as unfortunate as the creation of Granma more than half a century ago, and scenes as embarrassing as those of “journalists” celebrating the end of journalism as a conquest. Because true journalism, for the dictatorship, is an evil, plain and simple. And that is why they dedicate 11 out of 10 propaganda television programs to what they call “media war”; as well as none to refute with arguments, with documents, with evidence and denials, and not with slogans and threats, the complaints and investigations that they call “attacks.”
Journalism could not be a “necessary evil” because Castroism does not “need” someone to demonstrate with truth something that appears so simple but at the same time so devastating that the entire system, no matter how militarized it appears, no matter how many millions of dollars it hoards, and which therefore seems so difficult to many to overthrow, is only sustained on a pile of lies, which, no matter how many they are and how many they are stacked on top of each other, will never help. They will offer solidity. Consequently, the regime will not fall on its own, it is true, but manufactured with lies as it is, it will succumb to journalism made with truths.
