Lack of medicines in Cuba: the rigorous and objective sources of El País
The US economic blockade against the Cuban people,
a crime against humanity, has some “necessary collaborators”
according to journalist Pascual Serrano.
They are the major media that,
while silencing the crime (the economic asphyxiation of an entire population),
blame the human damage it causes not on the criminal blockout,
but on the Cuban Government.
A textbook example is the report from the Spanish newspaper “El País”
titled as “The great power does not have doctors:
parents of sick children denounce the health crisis in Cuba”.
The text brings us closer to the hard stories - undoubtedly real -
of hospitals on the Island to which certain medications and supplies do not reach.
Of course, you will not see even a remotest mention of the central cause
of this situation, whether it be called a blockade, an “embargo” or “sanctions”
from the United States that have led the Cuban health system to a difficult situation
in combination with the effects of the pandemic.
You´ll not read a letter about the closure
- due to pressure from Washington on certain governments -
of Cuba's international medical agreements,
which for years provided important resources
to the island's health centers. The cause of the shortcomings,
as we read in El País, is – as the script of
the US State Department dictates
– “the inefficiency of the Cuban State”.
But this newspaper not only acts as a necessary collaborator
of the crime by silencing it. “El País” also grants exclusive space
to those who work for the executor of the same. Let's see.
One. The journalist who signs the report is Carla Gloria Colomé
who, in turn, works for El Estornudo, a media outlet financed
by US federal funds from the
National Endowment for Democracy (NED) destined for
“regime change” in Cuba. The supposedly “progressive” Spanish newspaper
El País acts in the same way as the conservative ABC,
which hires to the editor Camila Acosta,
also paid by the NED,
in this case through the media Cubanet.
Two. The only two people interviewed in the report
are anti-Castro far-right-wing,
supporters of the blockade and sanctions against Cuba:
Lucio Enríquez and Avana de la Torre, also participants
in intimidation campaigns against Cuban artists
and people in solidarity with the Island. The latest of their exploits
has been to gather ten people in Brussels under the slogan
“In favor of the Helms-Burton Law”. As you hear it.
Pascual Serrano said a few days ago that there exists
in Cuba a “concert to commit crimes between
the United States government” and “the large media corporations”
and that these violate “not only the right of the Cuban people
to live without a blockade, but also the right of citizens (…)
to receive truthful information”. These words were spoken
in Brussels, as a witness at the International Tribunal
against the Blockade of Cuba, an event about which,
as expected, El País did not report a single word.
Because this newspaper – which still presents itself as “progressive” –
prefers to explain to its readers the health deficiencies
of girls and boys in Cuba through a journalist paid
by the US Government and by two fanatics who defend
and cheer on a crime condemned by the entire society.
International Community at the United Nations every year.
This is the journalistic rigor that the newspaper El País has.
Translated & Subtituled by Laura V. Mor.