Informative System announcer Amanda Toirac joins the ranks of official journalists who are leaving the island. The young woman published on social networks that she left Cuba after discovering that she felt “accomplice and dishonest.”
The young Radio Rebelde announcer pointed out that she was told to “repress” her countrymen and that, by refusing, she saw “the true face of the monster they have turned my country into.”
“I started to leave when I knew that I was a spokesperson for lies on a radio station,” wrote Toirac, who qualifies his words by pointing out that it was discovered from the July 11 protests and that he realized that he lived in a country “that only existed in my head”.
“There is no jungle, no river, no desert, no border, where I don’t ask myself if I did the right thing. There isn’t a day that doesn’t hurt,” he adds.
In her words, the announcer captures part of the Cuban reality, which she summarizes in speaking softly when it is from the Government, purchases in MLC (Freely Convertible Currency), the high prices of food such as oil and milk, and the dismissal of the magazine director Alma mater.
“There is no jungle, no river, no desert, no border, where I don’t ask myself if I did the right thing. There isn’t a day that doesn’t hurt,” he adds.
On Toirac’s words falls a river of comments wishing her luck on her new route and others questioning her for having waited until July 11 to “realize”.
“Since I was 15 years old I realized the reality of my country. I don’t know why it cost you so much. Because even a child is capable of seeing reality, what a pity that you were complicit in so many, and so many lies, and how you many,” Jessica Genes wrote.
Although she does not reveal what her destination is, in the photo she posts on her Facebook account, the young woman is seen about to board an Air Century plane bound for Santo Domingo. Before Toirac, several media professionals have left Cuba, as Maray Suarezwho has rebuilt his life in Miami as coach emotional, in the country to which he dedicated so many attacks through Cuban television.
This is also the case of the journalist and official television presenter Cuban Yunior Smith, who this March confirmed that he was on the southern border of the United States, requesting political asylum.
Although she does not reveal what her destination is, in the photo she posts on her Facebook account, the young woman is seen about to board an Air Century plane bound for Santo Domingo.
That same month, the stampede of spokesmen for the Cuban regime continued with the arrival in Florida of Alexander Quintana MoralesRadio Rebelde announcer and television presenter, who congratulated himself on his Facebook profile for being in a country where he can “feel free.”
Last January, the arrival in the US of another Cuban official broadcaster, Frank Abel Gómez Bernal, caused much controversy in the exile community in Miami. The communicator, popular on radio and television, requested political asylum and after entering the country he told the press that, although he had his job in Cuba, he “was starving.”
This February, the former director of the Information System of Cuban Television and of the news program Buenos Días, Yailén Insúa Alarcón, ended up stranded at the Bogotá airport when she tried to reach Nicaragua fleeing the island. In her case, she asked the Colombian government for asylum, alleging danger. for his life if he returned to Cuba.
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