HAVANA, Cuba.- A few days ago, the attempt by the presenters of the Dominican television program The Midday Show to overshadow and refute the arguments of the independent Cuban journalist Camila Acosta once again revealed the stubborn dazzling and consequent complicity of a certain international press for Castroism, despite all the evidence against it.
Camila Acosta had been invited to participate in the program to interview her about the situation in Cuba after the collapse of the national energy system and the passage of Hurricane Oscar through the eastern end of the country. But one of the presenters interrupted Camillarefuting that there was a dictatorship in Cuba, questioning his explanations and ensuring that Cuba was “a reference for the region in many aspects”, among them, disaster prevention. And a few minutes later they silenced her, claiming that the segment had ended.
Camila Acosta says: “Even so, I made it clear that in Cuba there is a criminal dictatorship, that it is not a reference for anything good, that the Cuban people live without freedom and in total misery and that, therefore, it was disrespectful to affirm that it should be recognized that the Government has also done good things.”
“Wherever I stand or speak I will make that clear, because that is defending the truth, the facts, the pain of this people. It is also being responsible with my profession and with a historical context. If you don’t like my criteria, it’s better to interview those ideological scholars who adore the Cuban revolution from the tranquility and freedom that living in democracy provides them and who, having visited the Island on a couple of occasions as tourists and going to Varadero, “They already think they know more than someone who lives and suffers day after day from blackouts, repression or lack of food and medicine.”
Camila Acosta’s attitude is very dignified. One is proud to be his colleague in CubaNet. The self-titled “scholar” who accused her of being intolerant for defending the truth must feel embarrassed. What he thinks he knows about Cuba has been told to him poorly and he has decided to believe – out of naivety or pandering, who knows – the story at face value.
There are many people like this in the world, mainly in Latin America, who since the 60s, despite the decades that have passed, continue stubbornly idealizing the revolution of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
Clinging to the Castro myth, when they claim to be objective, if they admit any failure, problem or error, they will justify it, they will look for it. mitigatingand they will inevitably blame it on the North American embargo, which, of course, they will always describe as a “blockade” and add a few adjectives to it.
If Castroism has been successful in anything, in addition to repression, it is in propaganda, political marketing to present itself to the world – even if it is starving Cubans – as a standard bearer of social justice.
The writer Zoe Valdes She says that on one occasion when a Frenchman accused her of wanting to kill his dreams for explaining the reality of Cuba, well different To whom she believed, she replied that her dreams were the nightmare of Cubans.
Luckily, in this world, where biased self-interested narratives and cover-ups and complicities with dictatorships like the Castro one weigh more, there are people like Camila Acosta and Zoé Valdés who defend the truth at any cost.
