Cuban television denied the escape of the Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad on December 7, shortly after eight in the evening. This was done hours before the official announcement in the West regarding the fall of the Damascus regime on December 8, when the Russian government confirmed that dictator al-Assad was in Moscow, settled in with his family.
In the Evening News, presenter Talía González called the information reported after 8:00 PM in Cuba on Saturday, December 7, about the Syrian leader fleeing to Russia "misleading."
For his part, his colleague, Froilán Arencibia, merely referenced the information being released at that time by the Presidency of the Syrian Republic and Prensa Latina. Both sources provided misleading information for reasons that remain undisclosed. The Cuban news agency published the news of the fall of the Syrian regime on the same day, December 8.
The Caribbean Channel also provided that information on December 8, but without mentioning the tyrant's flight to Moscow. In other words, their "error" from December 7 was not corrected.
The first to notice the 'fake news' from NTV was the outlet El Toque, which shared on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) the moment when the presenters denied that the Syrian dictator was in Russia.
Behind the gaffe of Cuban television, there may be at least two reasons: intentionality or an evident admission that neither Russia nor Syria informed their Cuban partner about the tyrant's escape, which indicates that Miguel Díaz-Canel's regime does not enjoy the supposed friendship displayed recently with both countries. In fact, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez boasted on social media about having spoken with his Syrian counterpart on December 4th, just four days before Al Assad's downfall.
The scales tilt towards this second option (Díaz-Canel has no influence among his partners), considering the silence of the Cuban regime following the fall of El Assad and his flight to Russia. They found out late and were left speechless, or they knew, lied knowingly, and chose to remain silent. Time will tell the final word.
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