The Ministry of the Interior (MININT), together with the Attorney General's Office and the Comptroller's Office of the Republic, advocated for the use of "anonymous" messages to report illegal activities in Cuba.
According to Colonel Felipe Oliver García Sariego, head of the Specialized Body for Combating Crimes against the Economy of the Technical Investigations Directorate (DTI), the MININT "prioritizes everything related to complaints from the population," albeit with the clarification that this repressive body has its own ways to detect the crime.
Regarding the anonymous individuals, the official stated that they have a specific way of being handled. "They are analyzed, evaluated, any existing background in that sector is reviewed, points of convergence are sought to confirm the truth of the facts, and consequently investigate them," he added.
Data presented by the official spokesman Humberto López on the program Hacemos Cuba, broadcasted on Canal Caribe, reveal that between January and May of this year, 58% of the reports made by the population to the MININT have coincided with the results obtained from the investigations.
The figure is even higher when it comes to complaints made to the Comptroller's Office, reaching a 70% similarity between what the population says and the result; while in the case of the Public Prosecutor's Office, it is 56%.
Many of these complaints that reach the Prosecutor's Office are first made in the entities, and due to superficialities of their managements, which sometimes underestimate the information, they do not investigate it," which leads to prosecutors getting involved," explained Luis Pérez Morales, head of the Tax Verification Processes Department.
On the other hand, the Deputy Comptroller General of the Republic, Darlam Dalmau Palomino, expressed that complaints, including anonymous ones, raised by the population are "a source of information we have about irregularities that may be occurring in entities, and based on that timely complaint from the population, we can investigate."
Despite the comments made by these three officials, the reality is portrayed differently for Cubans, who often do not know how to differentiate between an "anonymous report" or an "unknown accusation," commonly known as a tip-off.
The government itself uses each of these forms to its advantage and convenience.
Recently, on the television program that is used to indoctrinate and intimidate the population of the island, the colonel from the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) and head of the specialized investigative and procedural body of the General Directorate of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR), Rogelio Luis Lazo, explained the mechanism by which a citizen can be the subject of anonymous reports, police surveillance, and even criminal proceedings in case of not being linked professionally or academically, and continuing to exhibit a behavior that ignores the warnings of the social prevention group that is handling their case.
"What we need is information about the person who engages in these behaviors, about the people who disturb the peace," Colonel Lazo told the host.
As a practice, the Cuban regime has always promoted "snitching" as "civic" behavior aligned with the principles of the so-called "revolution." Informing on others is part of the totalitarian DNA introduced in a society dominated by over 60 years of single-party dictatorship.
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