MIAMI, United States. — The Cuban youtuber Hilda Núñez Díaz, better known as Hildina, was reprimanded by officials from the Universidad de Oriente due to her publications, in which she shows the reality that is lived on the Island.
According to the young woman, who works as a teacher at that school, the threats began after she published a video “where she showed what it was like to live in a communist country like Cuba.”
“I got a bit of a strange call from the university. The person invited me to an activity with young teachers, which seemed a bit strange to me because other young teachers were not invited, so I began to suspect that it was not for that, but that they were calling me for something else,” said Hildina, who is Graduated from Industrial Engineering.
The academic recounted in her publication that during the meeting “they wanted to scare her a little.”
“I made it clear to them that I was not doing anything wrong, that I was only showing reality and if it is going to bring me consequences, I will accept it.”
When leaving the meeting, the decision-makers warned the youtuber “if she kept making the videos, everything was going to reach another level.”
Hildina, however, said she was not surprised by the call for attention.
“It was something that I was afraid of, and so are you, that it could happen since I am making videos showing you the reality that we live in Cuba. It finally happened.”
Threats and expulsions from schools on the island have become frequent in recent years, especially with the rise of social networks.
In this sense, students, teachers, intellectuals and professionals from different fields have lost their space and schools and other work spaces due to their activism or their publications on the Internet.
The fact was denounced by the Observatory of Academic Freedom (OLA), which warned about the probable expulsion of the young woman from the Universidad de Oriente.
“We reject all these forms of incitement, all these forms of threats and anticipating any type of event, we reject any type of determination that the university made due to the political ideas or the publications on social networks of Professor Hilda Núñez Díaz”, stressed the researcher Sergio Angel Baquero, director of the OLA.
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