A week ago the Radio Rebelde digital portal published the news that Yulieski Gurriel had signed with the Houston Astros, work was applauded on our pages, while the New Herald, from the pen of Jorge Ebro, did something similar. Always supporting openness, freedom of expression and the transparent press. Today we know that many have suffered for such publication and that tyranny and censorship do not intend to budge.
Original work of SwingCompleto:
Original work Herald:
Dreamers, to put it politely, we were all in Cuba we thought could make known how the world works in reality and not after the journalistic wall that isolates million citizens, but fortunately not all.
We thought it was possible to have the truth in the Cuban press and not the speech failed, brainwashing and misleading news that paint an optimistic country met harvests, doctors per capita and public peace.
We believed that echo the environment and let you know a whole people, what happens to their athletes, those who will continue idolizing however 'defectors' who want them to call, it was possible, leaving aside the habit of decades of totalitarianism that It strives to say, even in the third millennium, the world is full of earthquakes, racism and diseases.
Because we were so wrong, as mangled the Cuban press, hiding 'spots' system that defends and exacerbates the problems of all countries that are not 'friends' (in many cases 'temporary friends') it is.
It is horrible to talk politics, especially when we come to these pages for baseball, a passion that could not wrest, as much as it hurts a few.
But today claim by the firings that occurred on Radio Rebelde, including inquisitorial interrogations were carried out 'heads asking'.
It was impossible (insist that went very deluded, but deserve a expletive) in the same station founded by Fidel Castro, it was unveiled that Yulieski Gurriel had signed with the Astros, for 47.5 million. ¿Clapping a 'traitor' and recognize their success? Error.
Error that has cost sanctions, threats and even jobs of colleagues in the press, some of them close.
We will not mention names, because it has already been too much and could compromise more, they decided to do their work and not respond to censorship.
The reality is one, the news was withdrawn from Radio Rebelde ipso facto, although it was not the same with the CubaSi portal logically smaller and history.
We leave you link the original publication of Yulieski signing with the Astros, now redirects us to the sports page of Radio Rebelde:
And this is the CubaSi (both notes were a replica of the original EFE):
A new scandal, the same scenario, similar actors. The fate of Cuba is cast, so it seems for the moment.
We leave, hopeless and worried about us, but not before remembering that "Journalism is to publish what someone does not want to publish, everything else is public relations" (George Orwell (1903-1950), British writer and journalist).
No more for now,
Daniel Andre Malas
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