CDMX, Mexico. – In its edition of April 7, the newspaper Granma public an article of the academic Hilda Saladrigas Medina, who, according to Ecured, is the dean of the Faculty of Communication of the University of Havana. In this text, the researcher defends the new Social Communication Law, militaristic and dictatorialwhose approval by Parliament has been postponed.
saladrigas He justifies said law with “fourth generation warfare”, an interpretation invented by the Cuban dictatorship, which transfers a military defense doctrine to the level of communication. For the academic, communication is an “anti-capitalist war” and must be militarized to prevent freedom of expression and the dispersion of opinions; a lack of respect for citizen intelligence.
What is a “fourth generation war”?
According to military doctrine, a fourth-generation war would consist of the following: “As the previous generation builds on technological superiority, great military attack power emerges. The only sensible way to try to confront it is the use of hidden irregular forces that surprise attack the enemy, trying to cause his defeat by destabilizing his rival, that is, with the use of unconventional combat tactics. In these tactics, large battles almost completely disappear, only happening when the irregular force entrenches itself in an urban center and the regular force prevents its escape, resulting in a urban battleas in the case of fallujah (which increases damage to civilians). At this stage, the attack on civilians is essential for both parties, the weaker enemy attacks civilians to deny support and weaken the rival’s position. For the strongest, searching for the hidden enemy implies finding and destroying him in any way, regardless of the cost of civilian life.
Thus, Hilda Saladrigas classifies as “hidden enemies” all of us who want Cuba’s freedom, a rule of law and respect for civil guarantees. intentionally hidden the massive and spontaneous social outbreak of July 2021 in more than sixty localities in the national territory, and the 1,067 political prisoners for demonstrating peacefully, demanding freedom and criticizing the failed Cuban State.
It also makes invisible the continuous repression of the fundamental freedoms of expression, peaceful demonstration, association and the press that the dictatorship exercises with impunity.
What are the references of Hilda Saladrigas Medina?
In his words, the dictators Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro and Miguel Díaz-Canel are examples of communication virtue. Such are the theoretical and practical referents of the researcher.
In his rhetoric, Saladrigas fictionalizes a non-existent popular democracy in Cuba, supports the kidnapping of the national media since 1959 and the successive purges against Cuban artists and intellectuals. He praises the Stalinist electoral system and, with the unintelligible verbiage of the pawns paid by the dictatorship, hides the gag on the Social Sciences and Journalism for six decades, as well as the consequences for the hundreds of thousands of Cubans violated by totalitarianism. .
What to do with this colonial left that tramples on our rights?
We must dismantle the lies of pro-Castro academics and make the Cuban reality visible in the face of the false official discourse. The civic damage caused by Saladrigas’s speech includes facilitating more repression at the national level, but it also transcends the borders of the Island.
Academics who support the regime feed fictions and lies about Cuba in all international forums. They brutalize and coerce higher education students, they support repression against dissenting people inside and outside the universities, and they hinder the clean-up and recovery of a society sick from so many years of totalitarianism, oblivious to the political praxis of the annihilated Republic. in 1959.
Saladrigas’ speech is false in its content and context, in its arguments and proposals. Communication is a process between two agreed parties on equal terms. However, the dean of the Faculty of Communication of the UH understands this process as orders that emanate from the State and must be complied with by submissive citizens, indoctrinated to execute the mandates of a despotic and centralized power.
Saladrigas betrays the foundations of his profession with the aim of ideologising the social sciences, culture and sports, emptying them of their popular content and maintaining a thought policelike the one described by George Orwell in his novel 1984. For this reason, he holds an important public position, at the service of the dictatorship.
The “Law on Transparency and Access to Public Information”, much more vital for Cuban society than the Law on Social Communication, appeared on the official schedule of Parliament to be approved in July 2021, but it is still postponed.
Saladrigas has every right to be anti-capitalist and on the left. What he cannot do is arrogate the power to trample on the universal rights of Cubans, nor falsify reality from a position of power.
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