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Post by blindpig » Sat Oct 31, 2020 2:07 pm

The best response is to communicate the Revolution
The new U.S. financed counter-revolution hopes to manipulate sensitive issues and create the conditions for a social confrontation, for conflict and destabilization of the country

Author: Karima Oliva Bello | informacion@granmai.cu

october 30, 2020 14:10:31

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Checking out the World Bank’s website, the first thing we will find is a slogan announcing that the institution’s fundamental mission is fighting poverty. Nonetheless, the World Bank has been one of the principal international financial institutions, along with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), responsible for the implementation of neoliberal policies that have aggravated poverty in a large part of the world. Although the World Bank knows this better than anyone, they will never say so.

Instead, it funds rigorous research to describe how the poor live, the causes of their poverty, and what must be done to eradicate these. The World Bank obviously does not need to investigate these issues; it knows full well that in the regions where it has helped impose neoliberalism, poverty is extremely harsh, with no guarantees or protection of any kind. It also knows that poverty would be eliminated with structural changes, moving in the opposite direction of the policies it promotes, that is, the creation of decent jobs with labor rights and guarantees for the exploited, plus free access to make a reality of the universal, inalienable right to health and education, for example.

But such changes will not be promoted by the World Bank. So why does it address poverty? In order to manage the social discontent that poverty generates, to prevent it from leading to political action against the neoliberal status quo. The bank helps to produce poverty and manages the ways in which it should be perceived and confronted, neutralizing any analysis or social action that implies class struggle and criticism of capitalism.

This method is not exclusive to the World Bank. For a long time, the U.S. capitalist elite has been developing, in the territories it wishes to dominate politically and economically, ways of interfering in internal affairs with a markedly interventionist character, making use of governmental and non-governmental organizations, which, like the banks, operate under a façade, in this case, that of defending democracy, human rights and civil liberties.

In 1997, The New York Times reported that the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), founded in 1983 during Ronald Reagan's administration by the U.S. Congress with the stated goal of combating communism, was then spending $30 million a year to support "political parties, unions, dissident movements and the media" allied to the interests of the U.S. government. In the case of Cuba, it has been documented that the NED continues, to date, to serve as a means of financing individuals, organizations and media that work for regime change on the island.

For its part, the Open Society Foundation (OSF) is a philanthropic organization founded by U.S. tycoon George Soros in 1993, which invests millions of dollars in thousands of grants every year to “build vibrant, inclusive democracies,” his website states. The goal is to train local opinion leaders with grants of up to $40,000 a year and fund projects for what they call “empowerment” of civil society.

Described this way, the effort sounds like a noble, selfless endeavor, but what they really do is fabricate opinion trends and manage social movements in certain countries as a key part of the U.S. strategy of capitalist domination. The foundation has been linked, for example, to the fall of political regimes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics and the coming to power of governments, not necessarily more democratic, but more atuned to U.S. interests.

I am not saying that the societies where these types of organizations have intervened have no social problems that affect broad sectors of the population and require political, economic, legislative solutions, etc., but intervention for purposes extrinsic to the interests of the people only complicates already difficult situations, with no guarantee of effective benefit for the majority. Social dilemmas remain trapped in a mechanism of political manipulation. Channeling social discontent to serve the interests of certain groups of power in the United States is the perverse objective.

I have given the example of the NED and the OSF, because they are two of the organizations that have supported and promoted the Cuban counterrevolution, which has diversified its field of action over the last decade.

A MEDIA FABRICATED CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE SHAPING OF OPINION

In December 2010, WikiLeaks disclosed a cable from the chief U.S. diplomat in Havana, Jonathan Farrar, in which he sharply criticized Cuban dissidents as "personalist," "socially unrooted" and "excessively concerned about money," acknowledging that they are “little known in Cuba outside a circle of foreign diplomats and the press.”

Thus, strategies to promote and support the Cuban counterrevolution were modified with the intention of manufacturing another type of dissidence, in line with the change in U.S. policy toward Cuba that took place during the Obama administration (2009-2017). Since then, one of the key priorities of organizations like NED and the OSF has been to support, on the one hand, the creation of platforms and digital media - which present themselves as independent, but insofar as they are private media or paid by the U.S. government, they are not - and on the other hand, the recruitment and hiring of individuals from the academic and journalistic worlds to become media personalities who, on these platforms financed from abroad, present themselves as standard-bearers in the defense of certain rights and social groups.

The strategy is directed in two complementary directions: the production of a sort of media civil society (a novelty in Cuba’s case, due to the way it is being managed, given expanding Internet connectivity and access to social media here) and the production, at the same time, of a set of opinion trends to create the subjective conditions for regime change.

Among the issues that these digital media and actors seek to manipulate, for their own purposes, are real, sensitive social problems that affect sectors of the population which Cuban media, organizations, and institutions have inadequately addressed in their public information work. Let us take gender violence as an example to highlight the key elements of these opinion shaping strategies, although it is not the only problem used.

A fundamental strategic focus is to force an analogy between the Cuban reality and that of other Latin American societies. This is achieved via an ahistorical and de-contextualized analysis of data, facts and figures, equating, with no consideration on the matter, the character of the phenomenon of gender violence as it exists in our country and how it occurs in other contexts. Why is there so much insistence on equivalence? The issue of equivalence is key to their purposes for several reasons:

-It allows the problem to be amplified, since, while considering that any act of violence is serious in itself and deserves attention, in other contexts violence emerges as an expression of complex socioeconomic dynamics which are different from those that exist in the Cuban context, given the relationship of gender violence to other types of violence typical of capitalist societies.

-Socialism is delegitimized as a model of effective society. If a whole series of structural and systemic questions are ignored in order to conclude that social problems exist in socialist societies just as they do in capitalist societies, then why are we defending it?

-The idea of an institutional vacuum is fabricated. These forces capitalize on Insufficient media coverage of these issues by institutions and the media in Cuba and attempt to popularize the idea that nothing is being done, when, in fact, what is being done needs to be perfected and disseminated in the media. -The Cuban state is portrayed as a failed state, to amplify discontent and, at the same time, to legitimize the importance of listening to "alternative" voices, that is, a platform is created for the political positioning of other leaderships.

-This approach allows for the importing of forms of struggle from other contexts that are often characterized by confrontational opposition to the state, with strikes or social mobilizations. One of the aspirations of this new counter-revolution is to achieve, at some point, sufficient power of convocation to provoke a social explosion and facilitate the longed-for foreign intervention. The goal is to manipulate discontent in such a way to encourage certain sectors to take to the streets and create the conditions for a social confrontation, for conflict and destabilization of the country - the ideal context for a soft coup.

Given this scenario, sketched with an imported paintbrush, President Díaz-Canel has insisted that the Cuban state, its institutions and organizations, are working on perfecting mechanisms to address these social problems, in accordance with the humanist essence of the Revolution. At the same time, the production of contents on these issues, and developing collective leadership for their media positioning, are priority political tasks.

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Post by blindpig » Fri Nov 06, 2020 3:16 pm

Why are There no Social Outbreaks in Cuba?
November 5, 2020 Editor2 Cuba, Latin America, peace, socialism, US Sanctions
By Iroel Sánchez – Nov 3, 2020


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A Brazilian friend who, as a journalist, spent a few days in Cuba, told me her amazement about how all the Cubans with whom she spoke know who Bolsonaro is, who Dilma is and who Lula is, which did not happen to him in other Latin American countries that had recently visited. The exceptional interest with which Cubans follow international events is something very particular that often goes unnoticed by those of us who live on the island. The social outbursts in Haiti, Chile, Panama and Ecuador, the conflict of powers in Peru, the endless repressions and murders of social leaders in Honduras and Colombia, the inherited ungovernability that forced the Government of Mexico to release a drug trafficker, the unjust imprisonment suffered by the leader of the Brazilian left to prevent his sure electoral victory and the elections in Bolivia and the United States, or the constant aggression of Washington against Venezuela, can be topics of conversation anywhere in Cuba, from a corner where dominoes are played to a university classroom.

Of course, these conversations do not evade the serious difficulties that the Cuban economy is going through, against which new sanctions from the United States Government are announced every week, nor any of the deficiencies in the services with which citizens collide, in which the impact of the economic blockade can be mixed with bureaucratic laziness and cause discomfort and dissatisfaction.

However, this mixture of economic warfare with internal insufficiencies does not provoke social outbreaks, and when the system – single party socialism – has been put to the test of the ballot box, as in the recent constitutional referendum, despite the intense propaganda to which each year the United States allocates tens of millions of dollars and a well-funded “Cuba Internet Task Force”

The explanation of the dominant media machine is that the mixture of the “intense repression of the regime” and the “Cuban lax” prevents an outbreak. But in the history of Cuba – from Weyler’s reconcentration to the Batista dictatorship, passing through that of Machado – no regime based on repression managed to remain at the head of the country for a long time, despite a “relaxation” in which corruption was the dynamic of politics and the economy at all levels.

On the contrary, if instead of February 2019, the electoral consultation were held now, in the midst of an intensified blockade, the percentage of approval would probably exceed that obtained then, and that would undoubtedly be the result of the combination of three factors conjunctural and two structural.

Conjunctural:

The upsurge in the aggressiveness of the US government strengthens patriotic sentiment and national unity.
Political effectiveness of the Cuban Government, convincingly explaining the relationship of the shortages with the increase in aggression, and the way in which the strategy to confront US sanctions seeks to lessen their impact on the daily life of the people.
International situation with visible failure of neoliberal policies and discrediting of the formulas of bourgeois democracy.

Structural:

Massive political culture among Cubans, established for 60 years by the pedagogy of Fidel Castro, about the nature of imperialism and the project of social justice and national sovereignty of the Revolution.
Link of the revolutionary leadership with the people, continued by the leadership of Raúl and sustained by Díaz-Canel, which has reinforced the perception that the Government listens to the people and works for them.
No Latin American country, of those that right now repress social protest with gunshots and / or openly violates the rules of formal democracy that they themselves defend, has been subjected to economic warfare, to multimillion-dollar financing to create an artificial opposition and , much less, the permanent global media and academic lynching of its leaders and its political and social project.

But despite all that, it must be recognized that there are dissatisfied people in Cuba, and many of those dissatisfied go to Miami. The accumulation of almost six decades of migratory privileges, together with the development of educational capacities and the state of health promoted by Cuban socialism, make them very competitive with respect to the rest of the non-native communities, but they do not make them freer.

More than a million Cubans in the US suffer severe limitations to relate to their families in Cuba thanks to Trump’s measures, however, there is no news that this provokes significant protests there. Nor do we read anywhere that this public absence of disagreement is attributed to corruption and repressive practices, not democratic, that the ruling class on the island until 1959 seems to have implanted in Miami during its already long stay in that city, without disdaining the edifying example offered by a system that today puts Donald Trump and Joe Biden in competition with corruption and insults.

(La Pupila Insomne)

Translated by Walter Lippmann

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Post by blindpig » Sat Dec 05, 2020 3:07 pm

Cuba Won't Dialogue With Dissidents Funded by the US Government

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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez: Cuba's is not a government in hiding. It is a Revolution in power, which has among its most formidable forces, culture—a sovereign, independent and anti-imperialist culture from its roots. | Photo: Twitter/@CubaCultura

Published 4 December 2020

On November 27, in front of the Ministry of Culture of Cuba (Mincult), young people, artists, and intellectuals with diverse claims gathered.


Out of respect for the concerns and demands of the young people linked to the various fields of artistic expression, who arrived there by joining networks of groups with other interests, the doors of the Ministry were opened for an exchange with Deputy Minister Fernando Rojas and representatives of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac) and the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS).

After more than four hours of dialogue, it was agreed to hold a new meeting, chaired by the Minister of Culture, for which lists of topics and participants had been previously agreed to.

This December 3rd, at 1:39 pm, an insolent e-mail arrived at the Cuban Ministry of Culture, where the group that now claims to be the voice of all, intends to impose, in a unilateral manner, who, with whom and for what will be acceptable in order to dialogue.

By attempting to include among the participants people who have long been self-excluded because of their aggressions against patriotic symbols, common crimes and frontal attacks against the leadership of the Cuban Revolution, under the guise of art, those who implemented this maneuver have broken all possibility of dialogue.

The Minister of Culture stated he will not meet with people who have direct contact and receive funding, logistical support and propagandistic backing from the United States Government and its officials. Neither will he meet with the unaccredited press or media financed by US federal agencies.

The Culture Ministry has rejected the basis—contained in the aforementioned email, which can be consulted in the Mincult digital sites—on which the conditions of this group, lacking legitimacy and ethics to summon the institutions of Cuban culture, have been articulated.

For young people and for all those artists who met in front of Mincult on November 27, who have not compromised their work with the enemies of the Cuban nation, the opportunities for dialogue remain open, as has been the historical practice of the cultural institutions of the Revolution, the Culture Ministry affirmed.

Cuban President, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, has reiterated that Cuba's is not a government in hiding. It is a Revolution in power, which has among its most formidable forces culture—a sovereign, independent and anti-imperialist culture from the root.

The Cuban Ministry of Culture has affirmed that with the mercenaries, it will not negotiate.

Below is the text, translated in full, which was sent to the Ministry of Culture and prompted the rupture of the dialogues.

"Sunday meeting ideas for conditions:

1. Given the harassment, bullying and criminalization of participants in the 27N and the MSI we ask for guarantees of safety and protection for all of us who go to the meeting and for those who want to be outside.

2. Given that the list of representatives sent to MINCULT contains the names of people democratically elected by the NP27 protesters, the participation of these representatives in the meeting cannot be negotiated.

3. Since we are going to discuss legal issues, we will be accompanied by jurist Julio A. Fernández Estrada as legal advisor in this meeting.

4. Given that the issues on the agenda go beyond the powers of the Minister of Culture and given that, in previous moments in our history when there has been a crisis in the field of culture, it has always been the highest authority in the country who has sat down to dialogue, we ask President Miguel Díaz-Canel for his presence at this meeting, as well as a representative of the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice.

5. Given that those who are inside the meeting are bound to and represent hundreds of people who will not be present; given that in the previous experience agreements were violated, and that the official media only reported what happened in the meeting through the NTV in the version of Deputy Minister Fernando Rojas, without the possibility of a reply in that media, we require the presence of independent press to record and cover the meeting. Likewise, we ask that the official media required by MINCULT be present.

6. We ask that at the end of the meeting a joint public statement be made (a representative of MINCULT and a representative of N27) setting out all the agreements reached between the two parties.

7. We do not consider it pertinent to present ourselves at the meeting until these assurances have been given publicly.


List of participants in the meeting:

Alejandro Alonso

Amaury Pacheco

Aminta de Cárdenas

Camila Acosta

Camila Lobón

Carlos Manuel Álvarez

Claudia Calviño

Claudia Genlui

Daniel Díaz Mantilla

Gretel Medina

Henry Eric

Jon Benavides

Juan Pin Vilar

Julius Caesar Llopiz

Katherine Bisquet

Liatna Rodriguez

Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara

Mauricio Mendoza

Maykel González Vivero

Michel Matos

Mikhail Rodriguez

Miryorli Garcia

Nelson Julio Álvarez Mairata

Reynier Diaz

Reynier Leyva Novo

Sandra Ceballos

Solveig Font

Tania Bruguera

Ulysses Padron

Yunior Garcia

Accompanying persons:

Fernando Perez

Julio Antonio Fernández Estrada

List of independent media:

14yMedio

Rialta

Periodismo del Barrio

El Toque

Cibercuba

We invite the official press among them:

Granma

Juventud Rebelde

NTV
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Cub ... -0026.html

A revolution is in no way duty bound to give any 'platform' to counter-revolutionaries. The young artists not involved in counter-revolutionary activities should disavowal these traitors, art should serve the people and the revolution, not tear them down. 'Art for art's' sake is bourgeois in revolutionary times.
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Post by blindpig » Wed Dec 09, 2020 2:32 pm

In Cuba, They Shall Not Pass: Declaration of ALBA Movements
Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on DECEMBER 8, 2020

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In the last few days, several communication monopolies with chains around the world, echoed a protest by a few young Cubans at the headquarters of the Ministry of Culture of this country. What would never be international news if it happened anywhere else in the world, is when it comes to revolutionary Cuba, some claim against its government or some event that puts its sovereignty and legitimacy at risk. From all of Our America, the popular movements and processes know very well how to distinguish protests and discontent of the people, from hybrid war maneuvers, armed and planned from Washington.

This last chapter should be framed in an escalation of sabotage and intensification of the blockade of the Cuban economy, directed from the United States for decades, and continued even during the Covid-19 pandemic. The so-called “San Isidro Movement” (MSI), which appears as the protagonist of these demonstrations, cannot be separated from this general strategy of destabilization.

The facts

On November 27, in front of the Cuban Ministry of Culture, people with claims and demands related to art-related youths gathered, arriving there by invitation in networks of the supposed movement (San Isidro), together with a member accused of contempt and an alleged hunger strike. They were backed by a strong campaign in the foreign press, in the paid digital media and had the immediate support of Marco Rubio, Luis Almagro and other characters.

Through the social networks, a rarefied climate was created, with an intense emotional charge, to provoke expressions of support and moral backing in the face of a hypothetical injustice.

Those who congregated on November 27 before the doors of the Ministry of Culture were influenced by the atmosphere created in the networks. Few knew what actually happened in San Isidro or its protagonists. Others (a minority) used the social networks to amplify what was happening there and spread it in an adulterated way, with false news about a repression that never existed but that did have its impact and reached the concerned ears of high US officials, the same ears that close themselves off in the face of death and repression in their own country.

The actors

It is public knowledge that the San Isidro Movement ( MSI) was born in 2018 and that, under an artistic and civil society façade, it receives direct funding from imperialist organizations such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

The members of the MSI, which owes its name to the fact that they gathered in a house in the popular neighborhood of San Isidro, in Havana, consist of a few artists who, together with a dozen people who are not artists, joined a virtual hunger strike (but with food at hand) with the main demand for the liberation of the musician Dennys Solís, a member of the MSI, who is serving an eight-month sentence for contempt after being investigated for his relationship with José Luis Fernández Figueras, a member of a terrorist organization in Miami. He was sentenced to eight months in prison without appeal for refusing to attend the police summons.

Many of these artists have close relations with officials from the U.S. embassy, who have visited them on several occasions during the “hunger strike”. They also received immediate support from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Assistant Secretary Michael Kozak, and Tekas, the State Department’s coordinator for Cuban affairs and very close to one of the artists. And the support of the mercenary Luis Almagro, secretary of the discredited OAS, cannot be overlooked.

It is necessary to frame this hybrid war advance in the unprecedented support granted by Donald Trump to the counterrevolutionary extreme right in Miami, with the emergence of a new generation of mercenaries in Florida who have been paid millions of dollars, with which they have established a new system of counterrevolutionary media and cybernetic war platforms. This also meant an increase in the use of digital networks to create fake news and falsehoods, which had emerged since the time of Obama, but which with Trump were articulated in more pragmatic and classic ways.

For all these reasons, we at ALBA Movimientos do not doubt the true engine of these protests and we say it with certainty without hesitation:

– We denounce this phase of hybrid war against the Cuban revolution, developed by US imperialism and the worm reaction in Miami.

– We support the Cuban Revolution, its government and people in this obvious and shameless reactionary offensive.

– We stand in solidarity with the people of Cuba, who are resisting the criminal blockade and, moreover, in times of pandemic, are seeing the difficulties in their daily lives intensify.

– Likewise, we salute and value the popular organizations of Cuba that work for and from the people to guarantee Cuban food, services and dignity day by day, 24 hours a day without rest. They are the ones who know what solidarity work is; they are the ones who will never use the difficulties to put them at the service of the empire.

– We will always be grateful to the Cuban Revolution for its support and contribution to the artists of all Our America, for promoting the culture of every corner of the Great Homeland and giving it possibilities to thousands of comrades who would never have been able to make themselves heard in their countries.

Within the revolution everything, outside it nothing.

They shall not pass

ALBA Móvimientos

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Post by blindpig » Fri Dec 11, 2020 12:47 pm

SAN ISIDRO MOVEMENT: AN ATTEMPTED COUP AGAINST CUBA NOT SO SOFT
11 Dec 2020 , 8:02 am .

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The San Isidro Movement has proven connections with imperial agents (Photo: Cadena Agramonte)

The tactics of the United States government to besiege governments that do not act according to their global impositions are multiform. In particular, they have developed a broad capacity to capture the discontent of social sectors and undermine social peace with color revolutions or analogous methods that end in "soft blows" when allowed to prosper.

In the recent case of Cuba it seems that there is something more than a revolt of artists and intellectuals, the facts are detailed.

REMOTE-CONTROLLED EVENTS
On the night of Thursday, November 26, the Cuban police evicted fourteen young people, six of whom had been on a hunger strike and a sit-in a week before to demand that the government release rapper Denis Solís González, one of the members of the so-called San Isidro Movement (MSI).

According to the hegemonic media, social network services, which are the main communication channel used by this and other groups, were temporarily suspended on the island during the police operation. Next, the Razones de Cuba website indicated that it was an action by the Cuban health authorities to certify the violation of the health protocol for international travelers due to the covid-19 pandemic.

Such violation was carried out by a Cuban citizen with Mexican residence named Carlos Manuel Álvarez Rodríguez, who after entering Cuba through the José Martí International Airport and declaring another address where he was going to stay, decided to move to that house.

Faced with their refusal to comply with the preventive measures that are applied to people from abroad, the National Revolutionary Police carried out the extraction of the people who were in the place.

A hunger strike (initially some were also thirsty) was maintained by a group of Cubans engaged in artistic activities since last November 18 in a half-collapsed apartment in the old part of Havana.

Solís González, arrested on November 9 and sentenced on the 11th to eight months in prison for the crime of contempt, is the MSI member who was seen in a video insulting a police officer who went to summon him personally to his residence, then that he had refused to attend a police summons.

He had already received several administrative fines for disturbing the order and two official warnings for harassing tourism. The crime of contempt is provided for in article 144.1 of the Penal Code. The activist, who shouted that Trump is his president and that he was becoming a "dissident," accepted the charges and did not appeal.


The artists' protest on Friday 27 was considered the largest, against the Cuban revolution, registered on the island since 1959. More than 300 people, mostly young people, gathered outside the island's Ministry of Culture to demonstrate against the forced eviction of MSI members.

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Artists and people linked to the cultural world gathered in front of the Ministry of Culture of Cuba to protest the alleged violation of human rights by a group of strikers (Photo: Ismael Francisco / AP)

A representation of the protesters was admitted by the authorities and they reached a series of agreements, including opening a channel of dialogue that would include a meeting with Alpidio Alonso Grau, Minister of Culture, the following week.

REACTIONS TO THE REALITY SHOW
That Saturday, Timothy Zúñiga-Brown, head of the United States diplomatic mission in Havana, was summoned to whom the Cuban government would express its rejection for supporting members of the MSI.

In a note published on the official website of the Cuban Chancellery, it was reported that having personally gone to the house in the historic Havana neighborhood of San Isidro, "where an event of political and social provocation was taking place," and taking Several of the activists are "serious violations" of Zúñiga-Brown's functions as diplomat and head of mission.

The statement adds that it is "a flagrant and defiant interference in the internal political affairs of Cuba and incontestable violations of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations." The Cuban foreign minister asked the US diplomat to transfer the disagreement to his government. He also stated that: "Cuba does not allow the United States or any State to interfere in the internal affairs of the country."

The Cuban foreign minister not only limited himself to filing a formal complaint with Washington, but also accused the imperial government of financing, guiding and inciting opposition groups on the island seeking to challenge the government's authority, both through peaceful and violent means. " .

The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, denounced on Sunday 29 the media manipulation of the so-called Movement of San Isidro, which he described as a "farce", adding that the island does not admit "interference, provocations or manipulations."

"Those who designed the farce of San Isidro were wrong about the country, wrong about history and wrong about armed forces," said the president through the social network Twitter, while in another publication he condemned the participation of the United States Government in the facts.


"The farce of San Isidro. The links and harmony of the so-called San Isidro Movement with officials of the United States Government, in charge of the care and provisioning of its operational base in Cuba, are not an invention at all," adding that "Our people have everything the courage and morality to fight for the heart of Cuba ”when referring to a“ group determined to hurt ”the country.

"San Isidro, an act of an imperial reality show. The imperial spectacle to destroy our identity and submit us again. All those plans will be defeated," he stressed.

On Friday, December 4, the Cuban government announced that it considered the dialogue agreed with the artists who staged the protest in support of the San Isidro Movement (MSI) broken. "Those who asked for dialogue are breaking up," an official statement indicates that "The Minister of Culture will not meet with people who have direct contact and receive funding, logistical support, and propaganda support from the United States Government and its officials."

KEY PIECES FOR THE SOFT SHOT?
Even though for more than half a century the Cuban Revolution has faced measures imposed by the United States that threaten the health and nutrition of the population, the most notable thing about the concentration of 300 people is that they expressed concern for the health of the "strikers."

More iconic is that the "dissident" group bears the name of a neighborhood in Old Havana that was turned into a "tolerance zone" to which, according to Raúl Antonio Capote in the Granma newspaper, the United States Marines went "in search of of fun and cheap sex before the Cuban revolution ", but which today has 14 medical offices, a traditional medicine clinic, a veterinary clinic, three nursery schools, a kindergarten and four schools.

They are key pieces in a highly financed sanctions and sabotage puzzle in which leaders rake in millions while operators receive crumbs. In a video broadcast on social networks, Solís González himself acknowledged having links with Jorge Luis Fernández Figueras, accused by the Cuban justice for belonging to Lobos Solitarios, a terrorist group based in Miami. He would have promised to send you $ 200 if he followed his instructions. "What interested me was money," said Solís.


The leader of the MSI, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara has been accused of provocations and offensive acts against the Cuban flag under the protection of Mara Tekach, former business manager of the US embassy in Havana. He also openly sympathizes with US congressmen who have promoted more blockade against the Cuban people. He has been arrested on previous occasions, which has aroused reactions even from singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez.

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Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, leader of the San Isidro Movement, has been accused of provocations and offensive acts against the Cuban flag and is a sympathizer of congressmen who promote the longest blockade in history (Photo: Archive)

One member of the MSI greeted William Gonzalez Cabrera in one of the live broadcasts they did, is the r esponsible to fund attempts to fire a coffee shop, a barber shop and a warehouse, and another member of the group asked for actions that would be carried out with Molotov cocktails. He is dedicated, along with other groups in Miami, to attract mercenaries through social networks.

MSI has received statements of support from Michael Kozak, Acting Undersecretary of the Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs of the US Department of State and a fervent promoter of the blockade and closure of remittances, also from Republican Senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, with a well-known anti-Cuban record.

Likewise, the ineffable Luis Almagro, secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), was quick to show his support for this new campaign of supremacism and extremism of the hemispheric right.

The journalist Iroel Sánchez has reported that, in February 2005, while waiting for a reception with then-US President George W. Bush, the leader of OTPOR, Ivan Markovik, expressed the intention of creating a color revolution in Cuba.


In addition, Sánchez recalled that in 2011 the Wikileaks organization revealed two secret cables from the then United States Interests Section in Cuba that prove that the US government's attempts to provoke a color revolution on the island, affecting young artists and university students .

A cable, dated November 2006, refers to youth groups who were gathered to speak about "the role of the youth of the OTPOR ('Resistance') group in precipitating change, through meetings, mobilizations and sarcasm" .

Another, dated April 2015, focuses on the tension between "traditional dissident organizations" and the younger generations made up of "bloggers, musicians, and performing and plastic artists do not belong to identifiable organizations."

SANCTIONS, DISINFORMATION AND SABOTAGE AS A CIRCUIT OF TERROR
Another of the "demands" demanded by the MSI is the elimination of stores in Freely Convertible Currency (MLC), these are commercial establishments whose objective is to capture circulating currencies in the citizenship due to the economic impact of covid-19 and, even Furthermore, due to the unilateral coercive measures implemented by the United States that have intensified since 2019. In particular, those that caused the closure of more than 400 agencies that receive remittances in foreign currency.

Curiously, those who make this demand were bought food from abroad in these stores through an online platform while they supposedly went on a hunger and thirst strike.

The attacks on these stores are encouraged and shown as trophies by the Mayan press, whose interest is to deepen the discomfort caused by the blockade they stimulate, while on the other hand they have cataloged the stores in MLC as an "economic apartheid" or new Special Period. .

Cuba and the United States had a difficult relationship again after Donald Trump was elected. This is one of the most tense stages after the detente led by former presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro between 2014 and 2016, a stage known as the "thaw", which led to the reopening of embassies.

Since 2019, the Trump administration has tightened the embargo that the United States has maintained since 1962 and has increased pressure on Havana with new sanctions due to the cooperation of the Cuban government with that of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Trump decided to close his Consulate on the island and ordered the departure of most of his embassy staff in the context of rumors about alleged "biological attacks" on his headquarters in Havana. Today this headquarters works under the command of a charge d'affaires because the US Congress has not yet appointed an ambassador, while Cuba does maintain an ambassador in Washington.

The government led by the magnate has also expelled Cuban diplomats from its territory and has issued travel alerts to Cuba for alleged danger, in addition to prohibiting the docking of US vessels on Cuban coasts and limiting flights from that country only to the airport of La Havana

The United States further intensified the blockade imposed on Cuba in the second quarter of 2019, applying attacks such as Title III of the Helms Burton Act, financial persecution of banks, measures to prevent the entry of fuel to the Island, of air and sea travel from that northern country and the attack on Cuban medical missions.

Last September, the outgoing White House mogul announced damaging sanctions against Cuba, such as the prohibition of Americans from using more than 400 government-owned hotels, at which time he also announced that he was seeking to further restrict Cuban alcohol and tobacco imports.

The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, rejected the use of violence and terrorism financed from United States territory against his country, this in connection with a television report that presented filmic evidence of incitement to acts of sabotage and subversion in the island from US territory in exchange for money and promises to emigrate.

The audiovisual showed the statements of several Cuban citizens, with instructions and monetary resources from people and organizations based in South Florida (United States), to set fires in commercial and service facilities in Havana (capital of Cuba).

Other targets such as vehicles, medical consultations, educational centers and computer facilities were part of the vandalism. One of the authors collected information about the National Electric System (SEN), which he later gave to those who contacted him. This information would later allow the organization of attacks on the SEN, while spreading false news, in order to create discontent and irritation.

One of the terrorist events that managed to materialize was the derailment of a freight train from the Mariel container terminal, an enclave of one of the most important investments in the country. The investigation of the event, which occurred in May 2019, allowed the four perpetrators to be arrested , who confirmed the incitement, organization and funding from Florida.

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Last May, a freight train that covered the Havana-Mariel road was derailed, causing extensive material damage. It was revealed that it was an express order from the paramilitary organization Alfa 66 installed and supported by the United States (Photo: Carlos Manuel Serpa / Cubadebate)

WHAT IS THE FIGHT? BEING STATE 51?
It is known that Trump's fervor for imposing sanctions on Cuba stems from his interest in capturing as many votes as possible from the Cuban "diaspora" installed in the state of Florida. An NBC News poll revealed that about 55% of the Cuban-American vote in that state went to Trump, while 30% of Puerto Ricans and 48% of “other Latinos” supported him.

His support in Miami-Dade, passed 333 thousand 999 votes in 2016 to about 529 thousand votes this year, such a rise could also influence votes such as those of two Democrats of the House of Representatives from South Florida who lost against their Republican challengers : Representative Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, the first member of Congress born in South America, behind Carlos Giménez, former mayor of Miami-Dade County, and Representative Donna Shalala, surpassed by television presenter and commentator María Elvira Salazar.

The Cuban community is the largest among Latino voters in Miami-Dade, and they also have a strong turnout rate, at 58%, compared to other groups. Obama won the Cuban vote in 2012, but this year it was clear that the tide had turned when Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Trump ally, won 66% of the Cuban-American vote.

However, until now it is unknown who is the winner of the US elections, according to projections the magnate is the virtual loser, attacking Cuba was not enough, even though his party has advanced among the Cuban-American community, whose leaders would not hesitate to annex the island to the American Union if they were to take power, as shown by an emblematic truck photographed in Miami.

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Last November, a van was photographed in Miami with a poster asking Donald Trump that Cuba be the 51st state of the United States (Photo: File)

Terrorism, suffocating sanctions, continued disinformation, and the possibility that many measures against Cuba will be difficult to reverse in an eventual Biden administration leave questions: Are these attempts at a color revolution part of the Trump-style death throes of attacking Cuba? Is this a (not so soft) hit in the works that leaves Biden to lose popularity if he decides to slow down?

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"Those who designed the San Isidro farce were in the wrong country.”
"Cuba does not allow the United States, or any state whatsoever, to interfere in the internal affairs of our country," Cuban diplomat Carlos Fernandez de Cossío informs U.S. chargé d'affaires

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"Those who designed the San Isidro farce were in the wrong country; they got the history wrong; and the armed forces wrong. We do not tolerate interference, provocation or manipulation. Our people have all the courage and the moral authority needed to sustain a fight for the heart of Cuba.” With this statement on Twitter, President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez made clear the nation's position regarding the latest political provocation financed by the United States government.

In several tweets, posting articles from the revolutionary press and Cuban intellectuals, the President denounced U.S. insistence on efforts to hurt our country, especially this year, marked by the pandemic and the tightening of the blockade.

He also shared the most recent press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex), accompanied by the comment, "This will always be our response to any perverse plan against the island."

In its publication, the Ministry refers to a communiqué sent by Carlos Fernandez de Cossío, Minrex director for the United States, to Timothy Zuñiga-Brown, chargé d'affaires at the U.S. embassy in Havana, which stated, “"Cuba does not allow the United States, or any state whatsoever, to interfere in the internal affairs of our country."

Díaz-Canel had also shared a message, November 28, denouncing the Trump administration’s support for the most recent actions taken in Cuba to generate political instability. "Some are bent on starring in media shows attacking the Revolution, poisoning and lying on social media. The revolutionary Cuban people will fight back," he wrote.

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"Art for art's sake?" My ass. Counter-revolutionary bourgeois nonsense. Counter-revolutionary 'art' in the service of foreign capital betrays the nation. I'd give these clowns a one way ticket to Miami, some would be shamed, some would go and some would stay because the rewards of treason are great. Those last are foreign agents and should be treated accordingly.
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Pompeo Plans To Include Cuba in 'Sponsors of Terrorism List'

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Cafeteria decorated with posters related to the year’s end and the 62nd anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution, Havana, Dec. 30, 2020. | Photo: EFE

Published 30 December 2020

The designation of Cuba as a terrorist state would place additional obstacles to improve diplomatic relations between Washington and Havana.

Three weeks before President Donald Trump leaves the White House, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would be looking to put Cuba back on the "State Sponsors of Terrorism list."

State Department officials drew up a proposal to define Cuba as a terrorist state, despite the fact that President Barack Obama’s administration (2009-2017) removed the Caribbean nation from the blacklist in 2015.

According to The New York Times, the designation of Cuba as a terrorist state would place incoming President Joe Biden additional obstacles to improve diplomatic relations between Washington and Havana.

The U.S. Democrats criticized Pompeo's move, calling it a last-minute change in the country's foreign policy.

"It is another trick of this president with less than 23 days to the end [of his office]," Gregory Meeks, the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, said.

If Pompeo formalizes this new bullying modality, Washington's blacklist will include Cuba, Syria, Iran, and North Korea.

Previously, on Dec. 17, President Miguel Diaz-Canel rejected the U.S. attacks on his country and described Trump's foreign policy as a resounding failure.

"During this period, the U.S... unleashed a sordid war against Cuba, with the absurd pretense of bringing us to our knees, breaking the resistance of the Revolution, and forcing us to make concessions... Its failure is resounding and notorious," he said in the closing session of the National Assembly.

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Firm, absolute condemnation of fraudulent qualification of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism
Statement from Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Author: Cubaminrex | internet@granma.cu

january 12, 2021 09:01:41

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Cuba is a victim of state terrorism and our population has suffered it firsthand, at the cost of 3,478 fatalities and 2,099 disabling injuries. Photo: CNN

The Ministry of Foreign Relations of Cuba condemns in the strongest and most absolute terms the fraudulent qualification of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, announced by the United States government in a cynical and hypocritical act.

For months now, there has been speculation about the possibility of including Cuba in the State Department's unilateral list that categorizes countries, without any authority or legitimacy, lacking genuine motivation, referring to terrorism and its consequences, and as an instrument of defamation to justify coercive economic measures against nations that resist bowing to the whims of U.S. imperialism.

The announcement made by Secretary of State Michael Pompeo is a superb act by a government that is discredited, dishonest and morally bankrupt. It is known, without a doubt, that the true motivation for this action is to impose additional obstacles to any prospect of recovery in the bilateral relations between Cuba and the United States.

Cuba is not a state sponsor of terrorism, a truth recognized by all. The official and well-known policy, and the impeccable conduct of our country, is the rejection of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, particularly state terrorism, by whomever, against whomever and wherever it is committed.

Cuba is a victim of state terrorism and our population has suffered it firsthand, at the cost of 3,478 fatalities and 2,099 disabling injuries, due to acts committed by the United States government or perpetrated and sponsored from the country’s territory, with the tolerance of official authorities. Cubans repudiate with contempt any maneuver meant to manipulate such a sensitive issue, for crude purposes of political opportunism.

Havana, January 11, 2021

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Investments to expand production of bioproducts in Cuba
The availability of new facilities will free the country from the need to import such products, and support the use of ecological practices in Cuban agriculture

Author: Yudy Castro Morales | internet@granma.cu

january 29, 2021 08:01:34

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Engineer Teobaldo Cruz in the Havana bioproducts plant’s fermentation area. Photo: Ariel Cecilio Lemus

Rooted in Fidel’s wisdom, like almost everything good between heaven and earth in Cuba, the use of bioproducts in agriculture dates back to the 1990s, when four production plants, located in the municipalities of Güira de Melena, Güines, Matanzas and Sancti Spíritus, saw the light of day under the guidance of our Comandante en jefe.

Engineer Teobaldo Cruz Méndez, lead investment specialist at the Labiofam State Enterprise Management Group (OSDE), is in charge of a project following the footsteps of those first facilities, looking to increase the country's production capacity for bioproducts approximately eight times over.

The investment plan includes three industrial complexes, located in Havana, Villa Clara and Granma, which are projected to meet practically the entire domestic demand for biofertilizers, biostimulants and biopesticides, in order to guarantee greater phytosanitary protection for crops.

A history of delays

The history of the bioproducts plant in Havana, still under construction, is much longer than it should be, repeatedly plagued by financial limitations and other problems that have unfortunately become commonplace in too many investment projects: delays, irregularities in planning and contracting...

Without passing judgment, briefly summarizing the course of the work is illustrative. At this point, 88% of the industrial erection has been completed and 99% of the civil works.

Teobaldo Cruz explained to Granma that plans for the Havana plant emerged in the first decade of the 2000s, that is, during that period the conceptual design and basic engineering were outlined, with a view toward manufacturing the bacterial control products Bactivec and Griselesf.

Some years later, however, it was determined that the facility could assume the manufacture of bioproducts, in addition to biological control products and Biorat to eliminate rodents and other pests.

This projection, very positive economically speaking, although delayed, began to take shape in 2012, a stage in which financial limitations began to have a stronger impact on the effort.

According to Cruz, the plant passed from one financier to another, until 2015 when the investment was resumed. From that time to date, the project has experienced a series of highs, lows and very lows in financial matters.

Nevertheless, beyond these tensions, the Havana facility still awaits completion of several subsystems and three fundamental systems, including electrical power distribution infrastructure, the waste treatment plant and the fire prevention system.

In the case of Villa Clara, fermentation elements are 65% complete, while work at the Granma plant is behind schedule.

Cruz reported that contracts have been signed with several Cuban companies to conclude work on the unfinished systems, which implies considerable savings.

"The total cost of the three plants comes to 50 million dollars and this collaboration with national industry has allowed savings of between 6 and 7 million dollars," he emphasized.

Two examples suffice to illustrate the savings. The rice scale, originally projected to cost $80,000 USD, can be made in Cuba for $26,000, additionally allowing for savings of 60% in expenses for materials initially conceived for civil construction.

The rice washing system, on the other hand, projected to cost 886,000 USD, can be manufactured by Cuban companies for approximately half that amount.

If all these alternatives can be concretized, the Labiofam investment specialist, stated, the Havana plant will be ready, with a minimum of conditions, by the last quarter of 2021, and Villa Clara, by the third quarter of 2022.

Increasing agricultural yields with new technology

More than a plant, the Havana facility is an industrial complex, capable of producing, in addition to Bactivec and Griselesf, 12 assortments of biofertilizers and biopesticides, and is studying the introduction of others compatible with submerged fermentation technology.

Cruz is confident that the Havana plant will reach its nominal capacity of 5,800,000 liters of fermented broth, equivalent to 3,800,000 liters of finished products. But production will increase in accordance with, among other aspects, agricultural demand and anti-vectorial campaigns.

He added that, in the specific case of bioproducts, the program, which not only includes the Havana industrial complex, but also those in Villa Clara and Granma, could provide supplies for one to 1.5 million hectares.

In addition, the four existing facilities are currently undergoing a capital renovation process based on two fundamental premises: nominal capacity and industrial reliability, in order to achieve higher levels of both production and efficiency.

Today, Cruz estimates, the production of Labiofam's four plants meets around 26% of the country’s total demand for bioproducts.

With the start-up of the new facilities, in addition to increasing production of biofertilizers and biopesticides, the enterprise plans to produce some 1,080 tons of Biorat per year, which will enable it to meet domestic demand and additionally export to other countries in the region.

Likewise, the production of the crop biostimulant Biobras 16, which can increase rice yields up to 25%, is also projected. Between the Havana and Villa Clara industrial complexes, the figures should reach 220,000 liters per year, the engineer reported.

The availability of these facilities, Teobaldo Cruz Méndez insisted, will, first of all, free the country from the need to import a considerable volume of products, and allow the Cuban industry to gradually develop a presence on the international market. In addition, the preparation of specialized technological packages for specific crops and planting seasons will be possible and, above all, the expansion will pave the way for our agriculture to develop at a higher ecological level.

IN FIGURES

The country produces today:

1,180 tons of biofertilizers.

1,200 tons of biopesticides.

LABIOFAM

2020 Plan: 568 tons of bioproducts, close to the volume obtained in 2019.

2021 Plan: 653 tons of bioproducts.

Source: Labiofam

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Cuba will vaccinate its entire population against COVID-19 in 2021
Dr. Eduardo Martínez, president of the BioCubaFarma state pharmaceutical enterprise group, reports that work is advancing to expand production capacity of Cuba’s candidate vaccine Soberana 02

Author: Nuria Barbosa León | internet@granma.cu

Author: Juan Diego Nusa Peñalver | internet@granma.cu

january 26, 2021 10:01:39

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The BioCubaFarma enterprise group is adjusting capacity to make possible the administration of Soberana 02 to more than 150,000 persons, while a new clinical trial with children has been launched, as more steps are taken along the path to vaccinating the entire population. Photo: BioCubaFarma

Cuba’s national public health system is waging a hard battle against the new coronavirus, sparing no effort and overcoming physical and intellectual fatigue.

The Party and government’s strong political will has made this possible, along with the impressive work of our scientists who have again reiterated that Cuba will be among the first countries in the world to vaccinate its entire population in 2021, despite the tightening of the U.S. blockade of the island over the past 12 months, stated Dr. Eduardo Martínez Díaz, president of the BioCubaFarma state pharmaceutical enterprise group, on his Twitter account.

The general director of the Finlay Vaccine Institute, Dr. Vicente Vérez Bencomo, has reported that the country is preparing capacity to produce 100 million doses of the injectable Soberana 02 vaccine against COVID-19.

Regarding this announcement, Dr. María Eugenia Toledo Romaní, epidemiologist at the Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK), condemned the escalating sanctions imposed by the United States which have a negative impact on the effort to expand capacity toward this end, stating, “If we are obliged to purchase new machinery and erect more plants, this is extremely difficult given the limitations we face in acquiring the technologies.”

This is why BioCubaFarma is taking advantage of its international experience to sign agreements with other countries that can help with the needed resources and allow the project to advance.

Dr. Toledo additionally explained, “To conduct a Phase 3 clinical study of efficacy, in which we show that vaccinated subjects are less likely to become ill than those who were not vaccinated, we must measure this aspect and then make comparisons to find the necessary statistical evidence to finally determine that the candidate vaccine is no less effective than others on the world market.

SPARING NO EFFORT

Currently underway on the island is a Phase 2b expanded clinical trial

of the candidate vaccine Soberana 02 in persons between 19 and 80 years of age, in the Havana municipalities of La Lisa and Plaza de la Revolución.

Dr. Mayra García Carmenate, research coordinator at the 19 de Abril neighborhood polyclinic, explained that the site was selected for the trials because the facility has met the standard prerequisite of systematically adhering to “best practices,” and has participated in several months of training to prepare staff members involved and subjects who will receive either the vaccine or a placebo.

After administration of the vaccine, participants will remain under observation for one hour to evaluate any adverse side effects and will be actively monitored via out-patient follow up visits for a period of 28 days. If any reaction should occur, the subject is to immediately return to the clinic where a 24-hour medical post will be maintained to evaluate the situation and, if necessary, transfer the subject to the appropriate public health facility.

Dr. García noted that the community’s population is very enthusiastic and many have made their way to the clinic to volunteer. They have confidence in Cuba’s public health system and those selected are proud of their participation and the fact that their neighborhood was chosen for this type of clinical trial, she said, adding “None of those chosen during the recruitment have declined to sign the informed consent agreement.”

Volunteers and technical personnel alike are confident that Cuban science will defeat COVID-19 with intelligence and dedication.

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New Chapters of the Permanent Cultural War against Cuba
Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on FEBRUARY 12, 2021
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https://misionverdad.com/sites/default/ ... GASt7onThe San Isidro Movement is once again playing the leading role in color coup tactics in Cuba (Photo: Archive).

More than 70% of the Cuban population was born under the U.S. blockade of Cuba, the only one of its kind in the world because of its duration but also because of the capacity of the people to resist and overcome a continuous aggression. This has molded the ways of being and behaving within Cuban society.

The Global North has taken note of what has happened to the customs, daily life, lifestyles, behaviors, perceptions, creations and other elements of their culture, as well as their interaction with the new communicational elements centered on the Internet and social networks.

That is why the San Isidro Movement (MSI) appears in the Cuban political scene, since the government of that country published, in July 2018, the decree 349/2018 that regulates artistic activity, Cuban artists’ associations have reacted to it. The legal instrument was to go into effect on December 7 but was criticized by figures who support the revolutionary government, such as Silvio Rodríguez, and received strong opposition from other artists, including some who participate in the global art market.

Protests against the decree, some of which included violent and destabilizing actions, led to the arrest of people linked to the MSI who sought to escalate a major conflict rather than engage in dialogue, even though they were released. It has also generated debates and several meetings between authorities and cultural sectors, for which the government decided to suspend it and study further clarifications.

New round to fuel the permanent conflict

The MSI campaign has sought to involve those who critically support the new statute and generate controversy among activists and cultural professionals, supported by the U.S. Embassy in Havana which, at the time, tweeted in favor of “artistic freedom”, with a highly undiplomatic slogan: “No to Decree 349”. In addition, the operators of the diplomatic headquarters have opined regarding arrests and incidents in chorus with the cartelized press that their own government finances.

MSI members have been protesting the November 9, 2020 arrest of rapper Denis Solis, a member who received an eight-month jail sentence for assaulting a police officer. They have since drifted into calls for protests demanding Solis’ release and clamoring for freedom of speech (or to be publicized).

Last January 27, three months after the events that took place in the same place, three people linked to the events of last November had been summoned for a space for dialogue, however a group of approximately 30 people gathered in front of the Mincult (Cuban Ministry of Culture) with the supposed aim of protesting against several arrests that day and were summoned to dialogue on the spot by the Vice Minister of Culture, Fernando Rojas, to which the group refused.

Later, the same Minister of Culture, Alpidio Alonso, showed up at the rally and, after one of the demonstrators brought his cell phone close to his face, he snatched the device out of his hands. This served as an excuse to detonate the usual media spectacle to which a network of digital media joined, spreading the story of a “violent attack against young people who were demonstrating peacefully in front of the headquarters of the institution”.

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Three people were invited to dialogue at the headquarters of the Cuban Ministry of Culture but the MSI opted for a demonstration to fuel the conflict and its media positioning (Photo: OnCubaNews).

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel denounced the actions promoted against State officials and entities, as a provocative action in an environment where the country is facing the hostile policy of the blockade.
It is dishonest to hide behind art to provoke by besieging institutions and public officials, while the nation fights tooth and nail against blockade, pandemic and death. Our ministries are not media platforms. Hard work is done there. #CubaEsCultura #CubaViva pic.twitter.com/1pmvorVtnp

– Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) January 28, 2021

Synchronously in Miami, the MSI branch in that city demonstrated in favor of the detainees and the alleged assaulted. As is well known, the events of November caused a media stir because some members of the MSI staged a hunger strike to demand the release of Solis.

The novelty, which is not so much, is that the controversy is circumscribed around the Mincult; this gives an idea of the ongoing agenda. It is not only a question of bursting in on a legal decision but also of denying the dialogue offered on multiple occasions to fuel the ongoing conflict, the live transmissions to social networks such as Facebook Live show that the motivation has been essentially mediatic. This is also demonstrated by the tweet from the U.S. Embassy in Cuba:
We are concerned by reports that Cuban officials assaulted peaceful protesters seeking freedom of expression and that of detained colleagues. We urge the government to listen and dialogue with its people instead of resorting to arrests, violence, and cutting off the Internet. https://t.co/6k5drLfQ0L

– U.S. Embassy in Cuba (@USEmbCuba) January 27, 2021

On January 29, media outlets such as Cibercuba reported on the alleged detention of rappers Maykel Osorbo and Omar Mena of the MSI as they left their homes in Havana and Santa Clara, respectively. They also reported that activist and independent artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara had also been detained on his way to demonstrate at the Capitol.

There were also reports of the detention of rapper Maykel Castillo, a member of the MSI, as he was leaving his home, and of artist Yasser Castellanos in front of the Capitol steps. The same media reported that the detainees were released within hours, however the victimizing narrative persists as part of a psychological operation.

On February 2, a reporter from the U.S.-managed ADN Cuba website acknowledged in a video, which circulated on the networks, that he had received between 150 and 200 dollars to cover the event.

The human rights of the so-called “artivists” are insistently defended by Cubalex, an NGO funded by the National Endowment of Democracy (NED) and whose spokesperson in Cuba is Tania Bruguera, who has called, together with others from the MSI, to take over the Capitol in Havana as in the recent raid on Washington.

Who wants to be a mercenary? The business of funds

The viral articulation that seeks to show before the world a climate of ungovernability in Cuba and give signals to both the new Biden administration and its allies, also aims to impose a narrative about an incurable obscurantism in the Cuban Revolution, and, internally, to generate a climate of distrust and discredit towards institutionality.

In 2013, a report published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that the Obama administration promoted a social network equivalent to Twitter called “Zunzuneo” that sought to build a Cuban audience, mostly young people, which would then be induced to dissidence. This was also admitted by the then USAID administrator, Rajiv Shah.

In June 2017, former President Trump reinforced the attack on politicians, journalists and artists aligned with Cuban sovereignty by creating the “Internet Task Force” through a presidential memorandum. This entity hires netcenters (bots handlers), cyber-mercenaries and youtubers articulated with the media cartel created, organized and paid by Washington.

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A media network financed by U.S. agencies seeks to legitimize in Cuba the hegemonic vision of democracy and freedom through constant intoxication via social networks (Photo: Granma).

Mother accounts generate messages of hate and negative perceptions that are replicated in the network of “independent” media and social networks, usually using people with certain recognition or popularity, who pretend to be journalists or opinion leaders, so that their words are taken as true, although they are not.

They are influencers with hypercritical tendencies, created to generate empathy and ideological tendencies in thousands of followers. Another element used is the one known as hater, the user who expresses hostility, reproduces hate speeches about people, specific groups of the population or about a topic.

In an article for Cuba Money Project entitled “The business of democracy in Cuba is booming”, journalist Tracey Eaton has pointed out the financing disguised in multiple ways to dozens of groups, through agencies, companies and organizations that are almost never transparent in the management of their funds. Sponsorship of actions that pursue subversion and coup d’état exceeded 249.5 million in the last two decades.

In 2020 alone, a report based on public information handled by agencies such as USAID on their digital portals estimates the sum to finance subversive initiatives at 2.5 million dollars. This is a partial figure, because “some programs are so secret that the recipients of the funds are never revealed,” explains Eaton.

The journalist also assures that at least 54 groups operated programs on the island with money coming from USAID or NED since 2017, coinciding with the arrival of Donald Trump to the presidency.

As interest in MSI grew, on Nov. 24 the U.S. State Department offered up to $1 million for programs that would increase “civil, political, religious, and labor rights in Cuba.”

Officials were seeking proposals that would “strengthen the capacity of independent civil society groups in Cuba to promote civil and political rights on the island and increase the accountability of Cuban officials for human rights violations and corruption.”

However, Eaton reveals only one layer of an extremely profitable business, as U.S. agencies and the government report having “undisclosed” contractors, to whom a part of the funds for a regime change in Cuba also go.

In order to receive funding in an expeditious manner, anti-Castro media such as El Toque, through the Más collective, based in Poland, or El Estornudo, created in Cuba and later legalized in Mexico, have registered in other countries as NGOs.

In the ZunZuneo case, front companies were created in Spain and the Cayman Islands since 2009 to hide the money trail, and hired CEOs without telling them they were going to work on a project funded by U.S. taxpayers. The $1.6 million spent was publicly listed as going to an unspecified project in Pakistan, but these documents do not reveal where the funds were actually spent.
In a covert USAID operation, the U.S. government built a social network ‘ZunZuneo’ to try to subvert Cuba’s government by luring a young audience to push them towards dissent. https://t.co/Ed5u3QbjZ6

– Camila (@PrensaCamila) February 9, 2021

Yazmín Vázquez Ortiz, from the Center for Hemispheric and U.S. Studies at the University of Havana, explained that financing, training and technical assistance are pillars, from which to take advantage of the conditions that exist in societies that may be subject to intervention, to promote resistance movements that can promote the change that the United States wants.

The deputy director of the same Center, Olga Rosa González Martín, pointed out that since it functions as a private organization, it receives private funds from any individual, from any corporation at the international level, which makes it more difficult to link an entity with a specific government and its foreign policy objectives in a given country.

The Institute for Peace and War Journalism, Factual, Distintas Latitudes, Swedish Foundation for Human Rights, Editorial Hipermedia, Diario de Cuba, Cubanet, Universidad Sergio Arboleda, and many others, function as contractors for these mercenary press projects. As a strategy, they select their future leaders, train them, reward them, finance them, stimulate them, make them visible, agglutinate them, empower them, orient them and give them spaces and platforms.

The penetration of the Internet has underpinned this facet of the cultural war, which is not new, while public sources of information from the U.S. government itself show the increase of funds during the last few years, at the same time that the Cuban State is undergoing transformations in its economic and social model.

Last January the MSI was nominated for the Freemuse Award for Freedom of Artistic Expression 2021 by the CADAL foundation (Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America), a right-wing entity based in Argentina and Uruguay that perceives itself as “a clear and constant voice in the promotion of democracy, the strengthening of institutions and the economic and social progress of Latin America”, and receives funds from the Ford Foundation and the Atlas Foundation.

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The “artivism” of members of the San Isidro Movement receives more and more funds and training to cause visual impact and disguise as art the change that the United States wants (Photo: Granma).

The nomination of the “artivists” is due to “their innovative work and great effort in confronting the coercive (!) measures of the Cuban government”.

In 2011, the NED published on its official website that it contributed 60 thousand dollars to Cadal and, up to 2012, nine of the 16 books she had published in partnership with different foundations and publishing houses, dealt with Cuban issues.

It has been denounced in that country for being an organization financed by the National Foundation for Democracy, which in turn has been financed by the CIA, and they started the “anti-communist” fight together with Fundación Libertad, the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies for Equity and Growth (CIPPEC), Fundación Vital Voice, Fundación Pensar, Fundación Creer y Crecer and several of the referents of regional politics, such as Mauricio Macri, Laura Alonso and Patricia Burllich.
Imaginaries and values as the spoils of the cultural and permanent war

The cultural war, as has been said, is not new, nor is the multidimensional, structural and systemic crisis of capitalism: that is why the attacks against any system of government that does not contribute to sustain its liberal imaginary based on the individualism of the few are intensifying.

The machinery for the dissemination of political and cultural values in the United States does not take into account respect for the sovereignty of nations and the cultural diversity of peoples; beyond mere influence, it practices covert and overt interference in the internal affairs of other states.

The debate is not limited to what a group of artists do or think, not even to the violence they generate or seek to generate. There are denser elements that seek to change the way of thinking of citizens, to create an uncritical mass of people who do not believe or work for any revolution, and nothing is more useful than culture as a spectrum of change of values.

Bruguera’s own statements on several occasions are eloquent: art “to try new political structures” (2005), “a means for other things” (2008). In the logic of these operators, there are no cultural restrictions in the United States as there are in Cuba, they transmit it by ignoring the Trump episode against the TikTok app of Chinese origin or the discrimination against Russian journalists in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France.

The insistent and costly effort of the United States to present itself as the cultural model for the world, just as it wishes to be socially, economically and politically, is part of a business but also of a war. It is based on the notion that culture is merchandise and, therefore, what sells is what is promoted, i.e., if the elites can successfully market banality, sex and violence, then so be it. Profit is the guiding criterion.The U.S. culture war against the world goes beyond mere influence, it practices covert and overt interference in the internal affairs of other states to impose and standardize with its mercantilist values as “normality” (Photo: Archive).

All this became clear when, in 2005, the United States and Israel equated freedom of creation with the free market in art. That year, in Paris, Unesco adopted the Convention on Cultural Diversity, which establishes that culture is not just another commodity, and grants States the sovereign right to promote and protect their cultural, tangible and intangible production against any measure they consider a threat.

The text was approved by 148 votes in favor and 2 against: the latter were from the United States and Israel, whose delegates argued that promoting true cultural diversity is about fighting for individual freedoms so that everyone can have “cultural liberty” and “enjoy their own cultural expressions and not those imposed by governments”.

Elier Ramirez Cañedo, from the Granma media, believes that the model of the Global North imposes the capitalist market as the primary standard for artists, which is why that government not only protects the market economy internally, but also opposes the sovereign right of other countries to protect their traditional culture.

The U.S. promotion of “democracy,” “freedom of expression” and “individual rights” is so all-encompassing that it includes the cultural issue, and is listed as one of the objectives of such funding.

It will never be said that these are colonizing onslaughts by the global hegemonic industry, with specific culture war projects designed, financed and implemented both to dominate societies affectively and cognitively and to impose and standardize certain groups and nations with their values.

A critical point is history: the more we can manipulate, distort the past and attack its most sensitive and symbolic bases, the better we will be able to sweep away the example of revolutionary processes such as those that occurred in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Ecuador.

In her book The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, researcher Frances Stonor Saunders discusses how culture was a fundamental weapon during the Cold War against the socialist experiences of Eastern Europe. She describes that:

An important feature of the actions undertaken by the Agency to mobilize culture as a Cold War weapon was the systematic organization of a network of private “groups” and “friends,” within an informal consortium. It was a business-like coalition of philanthropic foundations, companies and other institutions and individuals working side by side with the CIA, as a cover and as a means of financing its secret programs in Western Europe.

It is a concept that, understood as a system, integrates or relates to elements of other terms that have been more widely used such as political warfare, psychological warfare, fourth generation warfare, smart power, soft coup, unconventional warfare and political-ideological subversion.

The White Paper of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command of March 2015 under the title “Special Operations Forces Support to Political Warfare” proposes that the United States should take up the idea of George F. Kennan, a U.S. strategist against the Soviet Union and architect of the policy of “containment against communism” in the State Department.

His approach is based on the need to overcome the limitation of the concept that establishes a basic difference between war and peace, in an international scenario where there is a “perpetual rhythm of struggle in and out of war”. In other words, war is permanent (hence the permanent conflict of the ISM and many other groups financed by the North), although it adopts multiple facets and cannot be limited to the use of military resources.

In fact, the document expresses that war can be waged without having declared it, and even wage war while declaring peace.

It adds:

The ultimate objective of Political Warfare is to win the “War of Ideas, which is not associated with hostilities.” Political Warfare requires the cooperation of the armed services, aggressive diplomacy, economic warfare and subversive agencies on the ground in promoting such policies, measures or actions necessary to disrupt or fabricate morale.”

The ideologist Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to former President Jimmy Carter, in his work The Great World Board, said:

Cultural domination has been an undervalued facet of American global power. Whatever one thinks of its aesthetic values, American mass culture exerts a magnetic pull, especially on the world’s youth. That attraction may derive from the hedonistic quality of the lifestyle it projects, but its global appeal is undeniable. American television shows and movies account for about three-quarters of the global market. American popular music is equally dominant, while American novelties, eating habits and even clothing are increasingly imitated around the world. The language of the Internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of global computer-mediated conversations also originate in the United States, influencing the content of the global conversation.

It is becoming increasingly clear that this was not a spontaneous movement and that its direction and direction towards a soft coup lead to constantly forcing scenarios of tension that trigger situations of conflict.

In addition to positioning this type of events, the aim is to wear down the official narrative in long explanations and answers that symbolically legitimize new faces inserted in operations that are “a means to other things”.

The Cuban cultural institutionality is the beachhead in this strategy whose bottom line is to progressively strip it of meaning. From there, the aim is to radiate a story of crisis to the rest of the State in order to force unruly rivers, escalations of chaos and spirals of violence.

Translation by Internationalist 360°

https://libya360.wordpress.com/2021/02/ ... inst-cuba/

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Peddlers of poison: María Elvira Salazar & Frank Calzón
Professional anti-Cuban agitators attempt to exploit the animal rights issue in Cuba

Author: Iroel Sánchez | internet@granma.cu

february 12, 2021 08:02:58

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Anti-Cuban media financed by the U.S. government. Photo: Granma

Many Cubans, including leaders of opinion in our society, have expressed their solidarity with those who have recently suffered the painful, deplorable poisoning of their pets.

The necessary clarification of the facts surrounding these cases has been demanded, along with laws to punish anyone causing harm to the species with which we share the planet, including those that accompany us in our immediate environments - about which positive reports have appeared recently in official media, indicating forthcoming implementation of new legislation.

Several of articles published following these events, including one in Granma, made clear that allegations that State Security is “responsible for the death of dogs, as retaliation for the activism of their owners," are widely rejected.

We must continue to ask ourselves where this thesis came from, no matter how far-fetched it may seem, since it has been widely disseminated by the private media system financed by the United States, with a long track record of fake news and distortions about Cuba.

The Internet allows us to determine the first time something is said about a given issue: if you search Twitter, you will find that it was U.S. Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar, a member of the anti-Cuban mafia in that country, who on February 2, when no one had launched the theory blaming Cuban authorities for the poisoning of pets. She quoted a tweet from the owner of a private U.S. funded media outlet that regularly contributes to smear campaigns against Cuba, who gave her the scoop on this opportunistic slander.

Nothing unusual. A quick look at Ms. Salazar's profile features repeated calls for more blockade against Cuba and opposition to the new President’s removal of our country from the spurious, absurd list of state sponsors of terrorism, something that harms all of us who live on the island, regardless of our political positions. "I strongly reject any attempt by this administration to remove the murderous regime of Cuba from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism,” she stated, just a few days ago.

On February 6, following a second case of poisoning, the same author of the tweet that María Elvira Salazar quoted, took up her thesis, which was re-tweeted by none other than Frank Calzón, who has a long history of participation in CIA-sponsored terrorist organizations, like Alpha 66 and Abdala. He has reappeared in "human rights struggles" financed by the U.S. government through USAID, directing an anti-Cuban propaganda project from Freedom House, an entity Washington has used for decades to attack countries and organizations not to its liking.

In the wake of the poisonings, more than a few people have asked themselves who would be interested in disrupting the dialogue underway between state institutions and animal protection groups in Cuba, when an important step is about to be taken: the entering into effect of desired animal welfare legislation. The answer is obvious: individuals like Calzon and Salazar, the same people who have no qualms about lying, as long as it adds grist to the mill attempting to produce unrest and division among Cubans.

I sincerely hope that this type of brutal behavior toward animals that deserve our affection and solidarity will cease, once and for all, that regulations will be established and that a culture will be promoted to prevent it, but these changes will not come from people like María Elvira Salazar or Frank Calzón, true peddlers of poison. Solidarity is the opposite of hate. Justice and truth will never be advanced by those who call for more blockade and endlessly fabricate lies to justify their dream of a Cuba bloodied by violence.

http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2021-02-12/ped ... ank-calzon

The gusanos and quislings will commit any atrocity, great or small, to return Cuba to capitalist chains. A small thing compared to others, no doubt, nonetheless disgusting and angering. These scum would betray their countrymen, would they not their pets too in services of Uncle Sam?
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