The independent journalist Mónica Baró responded this Thursday to the official bloggerIroel Sánchez, who tried to justify the violence of the Cuban State against the young people attacked on Wednesday in front of the Ministry of Culture (Mincult).
Sánchez, author of the political propaganda blogThe sleepless pupil, wrote on his Facebook wall: "How indelicate a slap, how delicate it is to ask for more blockade and military intervention, and not at all hypocritical to silence the second and amplify the first!", to justify the slap that the Minister of Culture Alpidio Alonso on Wednesday to a journalist who was recording him in front of the ministry headquarters.
Baró stated that the blogger's publication is "a clear example of the habit of justifying violence or errors by comparing the violent act or error with other major ones that, furthermore, do not fit the topic."
"Comparisons as argumentative resources are valid as long as they help explain a reality, not distort it.", he pointed.
He explained that yesterday none ofyoung people in front of the Mincult was supporting the United States embargo/blockade of Cuba, nor calling for military intervention.
"The people who were there only asked for a dialogue with public officials and that, to do so, the people who had been detained while trying to reach said dialogue be released," he explained.
The journalist commented that the hypocrisy, where we saw it, was "in the Ministry of Culture, which agreed to dialogue with representatives of the27N and on the day of the dialogue he was complicit in the arrest of several of the people who were preparing to attend the dialogue."
"I ask: if someone invites you and your family to dinner, and on the way to that dinner, members of the family that invited you to dinner attack members of your family invited to that dinner, when you arrive home to which you were invited, what are you doing?" Baró asked.
He affirmed that the Ministry of Culture, the police and State Security are part of the same family and the same system that carries out arbitrary arrests and closes the homes of those who dissident.
"You have to have a very twisted mind to blame the attacked people for the attacks they suffered," he said, referring to Iroel Sánchez's post.
"Yesterday we didn't just see a minister slap a journalist who was filming him with his cell phone. We saw people being harassed by the police in their homes. We saw young people forcibly detained. We heard about women being forced to undress," he commented.
"No matter what you compare what happened yesterday, what has been happening in Cuba for too long now, nothing minimizes the seriousness of the violence and the pain of the victims. As long as official policy continues to insist on resorting to violence and the abuse of power, in civil society we will continue to insist on denouncing them," he stressed.
On Wednesday, around twenty young Cubans demonstrated peacefully in front of the Mincult headquarters to demand that the authorities release several artists who had been detained in the morning to prevent them from participating in activities organized to celebrate the 168th anniversary of the Birth. of the National Hero.
However, a frontal, violent attack against the young people was generated, which was also led by the Minister of Culture himself, Alpidio Alonso, who attacked an independent journalist who was recording with a cell phone with a slap.
The reaction on social networks to what happened this Wednesday was immediate in rejection of the violence manifested by the Cuban authorities and officials themselves.
After the incident, the young people were victims of violent repression by members of State Security, who beat them and forcibly detained them.
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