Camagüey journalist and activist José Raúl Gallego questioned the Spanish professor Ignacio Ramonet, whom he accused of being a propagandist for the Cuban regime who benefits from government favors.
Ramonet had written on his Twitter account that this Wednesday he would publish his "exciting interview of almost two hours with the Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel", and announced that "All topics. Even controversial ones. Problems of daily life; issues of economics; international politics" would be analyzed "With candor and honesty."
However, his publication was responded to by Gallego, who stated "You are not a journalist, you are a propagandist for the Cuban regime, a foreigner who is taken around Cuba with benefits and seeing what he wants to see."
"I highly doubt that questions about "controversial" topics will come from you and that you will be able to force a response," he said.
The interview, published by the official newspaper Granma and the website of the Cuban Presidency, has generated indignation among hundreds of Cubans who agree with Gallego.
In each of the topics addressed, Díaz-Canel's answers were amazing and were not questioned by Ramonet, who also did not ask the president uncomfortable questions.
For example, the president told Ramonet that in "Cuba no one is repressed for expressing an opinion against the revolution", despite the more than a thousand political prisoners on the island and the recent sentences announced against peaceful protesters.
He added that dissent in Cuba "does not have a repressive response"; and that the protesters who have been prosecuted since July 11 have been sentenced (up to 30 years) not for being against the regime, but for "disturbing public order, citizen tranquility, committing misdeeds or acts of vandalism."
Ramonet, a Spanish professor and journalist, did not question any of Díaz-Canel's answers during the interview, given at the Palace of the Revolution on May 11 and which will be broadcast tonight on national television.
"Here we have one more example of the hypocrisy of the communist regime, where has communism been successful? Everything is a crude lie, media manipulation, lacking transparency in the information they give, they think that the world believes all their lies, for Please stop raving with your dung minds," said a Cuban in the comments to the Granma publication on Facebook.
Cuba has repressed by force and through the creation of new crimes and arbitrary trials of peaceful protesters, opponents and activists, facts known to Ramonet, who is close to the regime and even paraded in Havana with his partner, an editor from Pinar del Río, on May 1.
Last March at least six people were arrested for demonstrating in the Holguín town of San Andrés on March 8, and in recent days the sentences of up to 15 years of deprivation of liberty against young people who in 2022 protested in Nuevitas due to the endless blackouts that affected that city of Camagüey.
Two weeks ago, independent journalist José Luis Tan Estrada was detained and threatened for four days at the State Security headquarters in Havana, Villa Marista.
More than 700 Cubans, most of them young people, were tried and sentenced for the protests of July 11, 2021.
On the other hand, despite these irrefutable facts, Ramonet once stated that the Cuban regime acted with "lucidity" and "transparency" in the face of 9/11 protests.
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