A small group of individuals of different origins, with dissimilar professional results, the majority residing outside of Cuba, assumes the role of representative of the entire Cuban intellectual community, of millions of people who speak loud and clear for ourselves.
La Joven Cuba serves as their spokesperson, since it “casually received” their text.
In the current pamphlet, entitled “Manifesto against silence, for justice”, the revolutionary government is held responsible for all of Cuba’s problems and justice institutions are attacked with particular viciousness. As the US government and its spokespersons in the world do, well paid by that same government and by the disinformation market, this country, small and harassed, is singled out, and its professionals are tried to be manipulated.
The existence of the blockade and external aggression is omitted.
In a falsification condensed in a few lines, without a hint of serious analysis, the riots of July 11 and 12 are presented exclusively as a political fact, manipulated with a hypocritical solidarity with the most humble sectors and are excluded from them, by art of magic, acts of vandalism, physical aggression against citizens and authorities and, above all, any connection with the aggressive media machinery directed against Cuba and its people.
The hard core of the lie is obvious: ignoring the popular response to the incidents of last summer and ignoring the actions that the Cuban government has been carrying out in favor of the most needy sectors. It is probable that the latter, together with the systematic dialogue of the leadership of the revolution with very broad social sectors, increasingly notable, in the midst of misinformation about Cuba, are the real reasons for this new provocation.
We Cuban intellectuals are opposed to speaking in our name to promote, with gross lies, the aggression against the independence of Cuba and our dreams of full justice and freedom. We can discuss any opinion about our reality, and we do so, with total freedom. But we do not accept the maneuver of using just concerns to serve as an instrument for the enemies of the Homeland. They are not interested in the humble, nor do they intend in any way to solve the problems that affect their material and spiritual life conditions.
The criminalization of our institutions is articulated with the discourse of the promoters of hatred among Cubans, functional to foreign aggression; of the hatred that the signatories of the pamphlet claim to repudiate. We do not accept it.
We are willing to continue working for the well-being of our people and to be more critical every day of everything that prevents it. We therefore condemn any external interference in our affairs, any attack on our sovereignty.
UNEAC Secretariat
Presidency of the Hermanos Saíz Association
