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Cuba and US Media Campaign

The United States has encouraged subversion against Cuba 50 years ago, and is trying to distort the reality through a media campaign with the objective of asphyxiating the island's revolutionary process.

  The US administration, led by President Barack Obama, has joined his predecessors' work and renewed in February 2010 the national emergency statement against Cuba, in force since 1996, when after several airspace violations, two aircrafts were shot down.

Subversion media strategies have been currently focused on recruiting anti-social elements capable of all economic change, as the Cuban Parliament recently stated in an official declaration.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez stated at the UN Human Rights Council's top segment some days ago that "the United States pretends to present mercenaries as patriots, agents paid from them in Cuban territory as dissidents, and unpatriotic criminals as prisoners of conscience."

"The empire's powerful mechanism do not hesitate to use a prisoner, recidivist and sanctioned in such process, for common crime, and after being recruited in prison, to present him as a human rights fighter," Rodriguez said.

The Cuban diplomatic head refers to the case of an inmate who the island's TV prime-time news presented some evidences of the medical care given to the prisoner for common crimes before dying on February 23 in Havana.

There are some tools, as the Torricelli Act (1992) and Helms-Burton Act (1996), which state that "the United States will provide assistance to non-governmental organizations, to support people and groups that foster a nonviolent democratic change in Cuba."

Cuba accused the United States at the UN General Assembly's Information Committee to increase financing of a radio and TV campaign to foster an artificial crisis in the island.

Source: 

Prensa Latina

Date: 

16/03/2010