Cuba-USA: Subtleties to marry us to a lie
Posted on: Cuba Network in Defense of Humanity
To put the media “under suspicion” and accuse them of being a part of a new language for the public in general and news professionals, in particular. This is valid in any context when we live in a world of news monopoly.
And referring to Cuba, in moments that the Island has been attacked for decades in every field and especially in the media, it is surprising that it acquires an informative connotation that we must be wary of with simple common sense. In a scenario with repeated and abusive messages and intentional misinformation against Cuba in various forms, unfortunately very extended manipulation in which they pass multiplied lies with a typical saturating repetition; a formula that in truth misinforms.
We will give an example but first a thought of the professor of Political Sciences of the Universidad Complutense, Angeles Diez, that is pertinent.
“If 90% of the information is controlled by the large US and European corporations it is difficult to think that we are well prepared to consult better information derived from the mass media…” And, in general, one should ask “for example, what interests are hidden behind the facts, what credibility do we have about the source; who does the news benefit and why…” On February 15 and 16 it was reported, as breaking news, that the first US company since 1959, Cleber LLC, had been approved by Cuba to install in the Special Zone of Development Mariel where there are already companies from Mexico, Brazil and Spain. The company based in Alabama will set up a plant to produce, yearly, up to 1000 small tractors.
The news agencies that gave the scoop in Washington were AP and ANSA, and can be read but find something that was repeated: converting the victim into killer with a lie that below was revealed. The first AP writes: The plant valued between five and 10 million dollars will be the first important corporative investment of a United States company in Cuban territory since Fidel Castro took power in 1959 and nationalized millions of dollars of private corporate US property. This confiscation led to the US embargo against Cuba…” The second, ANSA, claimed that ; “US businesses were nationalized by the socialist government headed by the then prime minister, Fidel Castor, after winning a civil war against the regime of Fulgencio Batista in January of 1959”. To observe how a lie is multiplied with almost identical words by the media that cannot be excused of ignorance or lack of technical skill, quoted randomly in a manner the reader will recognize at a glance: El País de España, La Nación y Clarín de Argentina, La Tercera de Chile and Deutsche Welle. For its part the VOA and other propagandists of the right wing did not spare adjectives in the news: “It is the first US company in the communist nation since 1959 when dictator Fidel Castro took power and nationalized billions of dollars of US private and corporate properties in the Island”. In truth all these “dear” agencies and media could spare the lie since it was not Cuba that began aggression. That was enough and did not apply specific techniques of manipulation of the news. I should conclude this work here but, perhaps, the reader is interested in extending the analysis with the manual of manipulation employed that is common in the world of news, extending a known promiscuity of deceit that is sickening and call it subtleties in the heading is almost a euphemism because it intends to marry us to the lie. When agencies and media “thus informs” they are applying “Biased manipulation: a tactic that biases the information, partially or totally, and does not reveal all the information it has. Manipulation by deformation: a tactic that employs real facts but deformed. This technique of manipulation and the previous one move together. Emotional manipulation is a tactic that intends to manipulate opinion working, skillfully, on their feelings. Expressing here that these media and others lie let us recall that as early as February 6 of 1959 US banks received 424 million dollars stolen by Batista henchmen that was never returned to Cuba. On June 24 of 1959 the US State Department called a meeting for guidelines: corresponding to the United State Government to take a firm position against the Agrarian Reform Law and its implementation (…). The best way to achieve the necessary results is through economic pressure.” They then evaluated, for the first time, the suppression of the Cuban sugar quota.
On April 6 of 1960 another report of an official of the State Department reveals: “That most Cubans support Castro (…) there is no effective opposition policy (…) the only means available to alienate internal support is through unrest and discouragement based on dissatisfaction and economic difficulties." President Eisenhower decreed the reduction of the sugar quota and breaking relations with Cuba. On April of 1960 the transnationals Esso, Texaco and Shell were requested by the United States government to restrict export of fuel to Cuba. In June of 1960 President Dwight Eisenhower decreed a reduction of 700 thousand tons of the Cuban sugar quota in the US market. On September of 1960 the United States government notified the suspension of operation in the nickel plant of Nicaro, property of the government of that country.
On October 19 of 1960 general measures are enforced prohibiting US exports to Cuba. Exceptions are food, medicines and medical equipment not subsidized. On December 16 of 1960 President Eisenhower eliminates totally the Cuban sugar quota in the first three months of 1961. On January 30 of 1961 the United States breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba. Tell that to someone else because in truth they intend to convert Cuba from victim to killer with doubtful good intentions.
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