The Cuban regime through its official dissemination and propaganda organ, the newspaper Granma, This Thursday he reminded Cubans of the consequences they face if they decide to “disrespect public officials.”
A writing published in the aforementioned newspaper, titled: “Protection against disrespect for public officials, authority, their agents or auxiliaries”, came to light without a specific context, or at least explained in the journalist's work, which makes one presume of an assignment based on the intimidation of Cuban citizens, so that, as the saying goes: "ignorance of the law “It is not going to exempt them from crimes.”
In the text, The journalist uses several articles of the Cuban Constitution that regulate the behavior of citizens towards public officials., where the clearest thing that exists is the discretion with which the island's authorities can interpret the concept of disrespect.
But the most interesting thing is the link that the journalist makes with Law No. 151 of 2022, Penal Code Law, a instrument that further legitimizes the regime's repression against opponents, journalists, independent media and civil society on the island, but also to silence opposition voices that arise from anywhere in the country.
According to Granma, public officials, which he defines in a great concept that, in addition to being extensive, has many interpretations, in the exercise of their functions they face “threats, slander, outrages or offenses against their dignity and decorum; In other cases, they are resisted or involve situations of violence or intimidation to prevent them from carrying out an act that is part of their duties.”.
Each of these actions, and others they describe, have consequences ranging from fines to years in prison, depending on the consideration of the seriousness of the act or the interest of those in charge of “exercising” the law.
The questions behind this text in the official organ of the Communist Party of Cuba are based on the objective they pursued when making the publication., not at all clear, as it lacks examples, of the many that exist about the arbitrariness of the regime against its opponents, in the name of any nuisance.
Last year, Cuban Leandro Pupo Garcés, 35, was charged with four years of deprivation of liberty for the alleged crime of “"offending and discrediting" the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) on Facebook.
“The Popular Municipal Court of Banes, in Holguín, requested four years of deprivation of liberty for affecting “the morale and prestige” of the MININT for a “publication that was seen by State Security officials of the municipality of Banes, who They had control over their actions and they reported the facts,” as stated in the judicial case shown by Pupo himself on social networks.
Some days ago, Cuban independent journalist José Luis “Tan” Estrada was fined by the Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA) for their “likes to memes, comments, likes to other publications, shared memes” on social networks and which the entity, together with State Security, considered were against the Cuban leaders.
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