HAVANA, Cuba. – They cannot control the value of currencies in the informal market, they cannot get people to sell their dollars to the bank, and then, between threats of jail and disinformation campaigns, they demonize the independent press, which these days is They have proposed exterminating once and for all, in another totalitarian fantasy that aspires to perfect impunity, turning freedom of expression and information into crimes against “the security of the State.”
They are incapable of guaranteeing basic services for the country to function, they sacrifice public health and education for the obsession of building empty, useless hotels, in a nonsense that already smells to many of us like money laundering if not “diversion of resources.” ” but, as if it were not evident, they still go against those who expose them with data and other evidence, demonstrating that the misery in which we are sinking is not so much a matter of “blockade” as of corruption and abuse of power.
They can’t get the rubbish of the Round Table, With Edge, We make Cuba, After the trailthe broadcast of In silence it had to be and other “productions” of the Ministry of the Interior displace the “Weekly Package”, the Netflix of ordinary Cubans, then, as if establishing arrogance in the law were enough to normalize repression, they take out another decree to eliminate the “competition”, although later, the operation failed due to the dangerous popular discontent that they foresaw (in a country where “happiness” seemed to depend exclusively on the port’s trash and Turkish novels), They will back down and blame the independent press of misunderstanding what, being very clear in The Official Gazettethere was no way to be misunderstood.
Even the matter of El Taiger, precisely because of the feelings, actions and attentions it mobilizes, They have tried to remove flakesusing it against the media that is not favorable to them, that does not play into their hands, and that is because they have no limits with evil, and when they describe everyone who confronts them as “haters”, they are very aware of where in reality That hatred is forged, and even knowing that they deserve to be hated, they pretend and have fun in the role of victims, when a long and heavy history of hatred and repression weighs on them, which goes back much further than that. Black Spring when they still tried in vain to silence 75 dissident voices that now, with access to the internet and social networks (those they describe as a “necessary evil”), have multiplied by 1,000.
They have not learned that when a voice is forcibly silenced it is done out of fear, because it is gagged, or because of murder, but not because it has actually been annihilated, extinguished. That when fear is lost – as is happening now, unlike the 90s when we fed almost exclusively on fear, as well as on promises never fulfilled -, it does not help much to turn off voices or try to speak louder without reason and without concrete solutions, that is impossible, but to not give reasons to speak – to be questioned, scrutinized and exposed -, and that is something that Castroism could not achieve not even in a thousand years because the main and only problem of “our problems” are themselves taking advantage of their “mistakes” over and over again.
And the main obstacle for them to prosper with that great business called “Revolution” (and which could not exist without “blockades” or enemies, without remittances or repression, without shipping companies to Cuba, without general impoverishment as a strategy of control, without the hypocrisy, the boxes of chicken and the “blind eye” of the “enemy”) is not the United States government at all, nor the “Miami mafia”, not even those who take to the streets or put up a poster , but those whose job is to report on it, disseminate the news, give their opinion on reality and, furthermore, study it, unravel it, investigate it even when access to information is almost a chimera, even when the true journalist, for the regime, is synonymous with “criminal”, “terrorist”.
Journalism exercised with adherence to the truth and professional ethics, without political agreements or pacts, without complicity and with impartiality, is the great enemy of the dictatorship, the only ghost that terrifies it, as it makes it very difficult for it to construct that narrative. of fantasy that is easily bought as legitimate by left-wing parties, international organizations and everyone who does not care about freedom of expression because, even though they live in a democracy, they see it as a stone in their shoe, and even though in public they say they hate to dictatorships, they secretly envy the impunity of their excesses.
Independent journalism (especially independent of Government manipulation) is the true enemy because it prevents the perfect realization of a falsehood, because it does not contribute as an accomplice in the sale of that image that they strive to project and that, even though it is clearly a scam, there are plenty inside and outside of Cuba who are willing to buy it, just as, with empty stomachs and a wound in their chest, incredibly there are among us those who, despite being direct witnesses of what happens, amen of testimonies and photos, they grab the other package that forces them to buy the NTV and the Granma.
They are not so interested in ending the blackouts as they are in the note that questions why there is money to build hotels and not to compose the national electrical system. They do not seek to lower the prices of goods but rather to silence those who denounce the double standards they use to harm private individuals and favor the state network of foreign currency stores. They are not going after the doctor who let the patient die but against the family member who made the complaint. And so, if we follow their trail in everything, we will find that the crux of the matter is always containing, hiding and manipulating information. Punish whoever frees her from her confinement.
That is why there is no operation deployed or strategy undertaken by the regime, no matter how apparently distant from the issue, that does not have the independent press as its main objective to be eliminated, and that is that one hundred percent of the “solutions” that Castroism They say they look for the thousands of internal and external problems generated by themselves, they do not intend anything other than to disappear the problem as soon as that which accounts for its existence disappears.
