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Political, artistic, economic and academic freedom: difference between Cuba and the US regime (www.cubainformacion.tv)

submitted 2 months ago by rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

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From José Manzaneda, coordinator of Cubainformación

The US regime sells itself as the “land of the free” (1). And quite a few people buy into it. Let's review.

The YouTube channel, owned by the American company Google, has just removed 700 videos containing evidence of atrocities committed by the Israeli army against Palestinian civilians (2). Censorship? No! It's compliance with US "trade and export laws." In other words, the sanctions that the White House imposes on human rights NGOs that provide material evidence to the International Criminal Court, in order to prevent Israel from being condemned for war crimes.

By order of the White House, the Chinese internet platform TikTok must be sold to a US company if it does not want to be permanently banned in that country (3). Violation of free markets? Control of the “free internet”? No! It is just “the technological fight” between powers, the Western press tells us (4).

Academic freedom. In the last year, at least 4,000 books have been banned in schools in 23 US states (5). The argument: to put an “end to radical indoctrination” and “gender ideology” and “LGBT,” as well as to prevent “explicit sexual content” from reaching minors (6). The ranking of censorship is led by the state of Florida! Yes, Florida, whose governor and politicians viciously attack Cuba for “violating freedoms” (7).

Artistic freedom, for example. And in Florida, it's fully respected, isn't it (8) (9) (10)? Let's look at the last one. Reggaeton musicians Dany Ome and Kevincito El 13, both residents of Miami, toured their native Cuba (11). Upon their return, punishment awaited them : an investigation by the Treasury Department, which could impose fines for "violating the embargo" on the island (12). In fact, the artists canceled their entire European tour, fearing they wouldn't be allowed to re-enter the US.

Political freedoms. Mark Bray, a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey and author of the book “Antifa”, has decided to flee the US to Spain with his family after his home address was published on social media and he received serious death threats from supporters of Donald Trump, who days earlier had declared the Antifa (anti-fascist) movement as a “terrorist organization” (13).

This is American democracy, in which the country's president has just pardoned those who tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election that Trump lost (14). Something he had already done months earlier with 1,600 people convicted of storming the Capitol with the same coup-plotting objective (15).

Let's travel now to Ecuador. In October, the military crackdown on protests against the fuel price hike and other government measures left three dead, 300 injured, and 120 detained (16). Just a few days ago, 27 prisoners were hanged in a jail in that country (17). Since 2021, 600 people have been murdered in Ecuadorian prisons , which are controlled by drug cartels. In the first half of this year, the country saw a 47% increase in homicides (18). But why aren't the media talking about the "failure of the model" in Ecuador? Because it's neither Cuba nor Venezuela. And because to do so would be to acknowledge the social disaster brought about by neoliberalism, following the decade of economic successes under the leftist president Rafael Correa, who is now persecuted and in exile (19).

We read a headline: “Nurse kills 10 patients to ‘reduce his workload during night shifts’.” We have to get to the fourth paragraph of the article to find out in which country this chilling event occurred: Germany. Yes, rich and very “civilized” Germany (20). But can you imagine if this event had happened in Cuba? We wouldn’t just have the country’s name in the headline. We’d also have an extensive analysis of the situation in a “failed system,” in a “failed state.”

The US banned regular remittances to Cuba because the Cuban state-owned company that managed them received a small percentage, which went to the national budget (21). Many media outlets repeated the lie that this money went into the pockets of the “Cuban military” (22). Now, Donald Trump has announced a federal tax on all remittances leaving the US (23). A “tax on the poor” that will impact the economies of many nations in the Global South, dependent on Cuban emigration (24). Will there be any media condemnation of this latest act of perversity by a selfish, despotic, and criminal regime?

Incidentally, for almost a month and a half, the US has been in a “government shutdown” due to a lack of budget agreement in the Senate (25). The consequences: more than 750,000 federal jobs were suspended without pay (26). Millions of families stopped receiving aid and public services, and tens of thousands of flights were delayed or canceled due to a shortage of air traffic controllers (27).

Isn't this the real "failed state"?

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[–] big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

that's what i like to see, gracias

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

De nada 🫡 The video version of this is in the link if you want this content for agitprop