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About what would not allow in Spain or France but demand from Cuba

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Imagine that the left-wing reached various governments in Southern Europe

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and applied determined public policies and that, affected by certain transnational interests,

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the US imposed a trade war on them.

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Would Spain allow members of Spanish organizations, with funds from the White House,

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Would Italy allow Italian journalists, paid by the US,

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to carry out an international boycott campaign of their own products?

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Would France allow so-called human rights activists, paid by Washington,

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to encourage a total lockdown on its economy?

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Well, not really. Neither Spain, nor Italy nor France would allow it. Their penal codes are clear.

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From 3 to 10 years in prison for anyone who receives "from abroad (...) money" for

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"acts contrary to the national interests" of Italy. Prison from 4 to 8 years for anyone who maintains 

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"intelligence relations" that compromise "the vital interests of Spain. 


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"Penalties of up to 30 years - for similar reasons - in France.

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Now let's take this imaginary situation, located in countries of rich Europe,

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to the reality suffered by a poor country in the South: Cuba.

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The cuban “dissident” Rosa María Payá, with US federal funds,

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lobbies in favor of the Helms-Burton Act,

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which sanctions tourism companies around the world and prevents investments in Cuba.

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José Daniel Ferrer, whose "dissident" group is supported by the White House,

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is pressing for Joe Biden to maintain the current economic asphyxia to the Island if he wins the elections.

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Another "dissident", Guillermo Fariñas, acknowledges that his mission is

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"to undermine an economic agreement between Cuba and the European Union",

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and thus plug up any commercial alternative to the US blockade.

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Jorge Enrique Rodríguez, a “journalist” for Diario de Cuba, a media financed by Washington,

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is dedicated to the grossest propaganda against the cooperation agreements between the European Union and Cuba.

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But what do we read in the European press? Do we read that for maintaining "intelligence relations"

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and receiving money for "acts contrary to the national interests" of Cuba,

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as contemplated in the penal codes of Europe, these people should be in prison?

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Do we read that they are collaborators in a brutal economic war imposed

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by a superpower on a small island in the South?

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No. They tell us that they are peaceful "opponents" whom the "Cuban regime"

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"gags", "censors", that they´re not allow to have free expression or political organization.

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Although they are still free and Havana doesn´t apply, with all rigor, its laws.

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The same ones that in Spain, France or Italy would not forgive such acts of mercenarism.

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Less in the US. By the way, do you know of any European media that calls

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an imprisoned journalist named Julian Assange as a "dissident?

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Translated and subtituled by Laura V.Mor.