Miami, United States. – Cuban opposition leader José Daniel Ferrer sent a message to Cubanet in which he laments the current Cuban independent press crisis, derived from the recent freezing of federal funds that supported Cuban newspapers and magazines. Ferrer stressed the importance of independent journalism and called solidarity to guarantee its continuity.
“The good Cuban independent press, the good, objective and truthful independent press is going through very difficult times and lacks funds, resources, to continue its very important work,” said the opponent.
The leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) He underlined the fundamental role that means such as Cubanet in the dissemination of information about Cuban reality, inside and outside the country. “Cubanet It has been one of those media that for years have been doing a very important work making Cubans known inside and outside the national territory everything is done in favor of freedom, democracy and human rights and giving it Dissemination to the complaints of the serious violations of human rights that occur in our country, ”he said.
He also contrasted the work of independent journalism with that of the official media, noting that the latter do not reflect the reality of the country. “The good Cuban independent press informs about everything that happens in our homeland, which they do not do or do the media under the control of the tyrannical regime prevailing in our nation,” he emphasized.
The financial crisis facing the Cuban independent press is part of the recent decision of the United States government to freeze most funds for foreign aid, including subsidies that supported several media that report on Cuba from exile from exile .
The measure, announced under the administration of Donald Trump within the framework of a plan to dismant Cuba Diario, to look for alternative sources of financing.
“We face an unexpected challenge: the suspension of a key financing that sustained part of our work,” published this environment in a recent publishing house.
The freezing of the federal funds that supported the independent media has been held by the regime of the island. On February 6, the ex -spy of the Network Wasp Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, current president of the Defense Committees of the Revolution (CDR ), published in his X account: “The Corre-Corre was armed! If the Usaid closes the pipe, some ‘fighters’ of the Anticuban industry will have to move for smaller houses. ”
Despite financial restrictions, for the moment most of the Cuban independent means continue to operate from exile and within Cuba, where their web portals remain blocked and their harassed collaborators.
