[news] Cuba and the Myth of the 'Independent Libraries'

[Resist!ca]

According to its strategy of destabilization of Cuban society, the United 
States, in addition to financing and directing "independent journalists", and 
"human rights members" has created "independent libraries"(1). The main role of 
those organizations consists of carrying out a job of disinformation in the 
heart of the country, and in creating favorable conditions for weakening the 
nation, which is already in an extremely hostile geopolitical context. Those 
different splinter groups are shown in the international press as the nucleus 
of the future "civil and democratic society." The information transnationals 
still do not deign to give attention to the facts, however easily accessible 
and verifiable, preferring to talk about internal dissidence. Created in 1998 
by Mr. Ramón Humberto Colás Castillo according to the leadership of the 
United States Interest Section (SINA) in Havana, it thought that the 
"independent libraries" would give the illusion of a growing opposition against 
the Cuban government. The birth of those entities fits directly in the 
political maneuvering of the United States which consists of manipulating the 
reality of the island."(2) Indeed, those libraries should officially allow 
Cubans to have access to real independent information, but in reality they were 
propaganda groups at Washington's service.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/1/62537/32926