Journalist attacks protesters in Santiago de Cuba and calls them ungrateful and lazy

A pro-government journalist attacked the hundreds of protesters who took to the streets of Santiago de Cuba last Sunday to demand their rights, calling them ungrateful and lazy.

Mayté García Tintoré wrote a long article in the weeklySierra Maestra, in which he claims that he witnessed the protests, which "the highest authorities of the Party and the Government led."

"That a group ofPeople took to the streets demanding 'current and food', It's true; It's in those videos that circulate on social networks...", he admitted.

However, García Tintoré affirms "there is much more behind the events" and that it would be naive to think that they occurred spontaneously, without a "manipulated subversive call."

In her opinion, it was degrading to see vulnerable people who receive social assistance from the Government complaining and who, according to her, "in some cases even sell the modules that are given to them for free."

He also found the attitude of the mothers who went out under the sun with their children in tow "to demand milk that sometimes not even the little ones drink, since quite a few sell it for 2,000 pesos."

"I know those faces well," he stressed, and accused those women of having "a perfect move," since they sell regulated products and "without firing a peas," they manage to make "a lot of money."

The journalist referred to those disengaged, whom she described as "young and strong boys, who neither study nor work but who were demanding strongly."

According to him, if any of them lived in a capitalist country, they would be sent to prison or end up with a bullet in the head, but in Cuba they only complain, "when they should bless this Revolution that has been too benevolent."

"Those who hang out on the corners, live off illicit business, off invention, with deep pockets, drinking rum or beer at 9 in the morning as well as at 6 in the afternoon; those parasites of our society, who receive the same benefits that the working people, thanks to the benefits of a Government that they discredit...", he stressed.

Finally, the reporter acknowledges that in the protests there were workers, housewives and retirees and even curious people, whom she accuses of showing a lack of character and letting themselves go "to join the side of the ungrateful."