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Neither a style manual. Nor revolutionary solemnity. And what can be said about journalistic ethics? Slippers, pure slippers, because we already know how low the bar gets in discussions in a Cuban neighborhood.
This Thursday, the honorable cubadebatientes, members of the regime's main digital propaganda apparatus, disregarded all norms of propriety and published a note on their Facebook page that ended by labeling defenders of U.S. policy towards Cuba as "warmongers and bootlickers."
The full text of the post “revolutionarily” chusma, excerpted from a comment by Caitlin Johnstone, stated: “Nobody sincerely believes that Cuba has, by pure coincidence, become an urgent threat to U.S. national security just at the moment when the United States began to rush to consolidate its geostrategic control in the Middle East and the Western Hemisphere. This is a show staged by warmongers and sycophants.”
Just like that. With the Cuban flag backlit in the background and a peace dove at the top, as if to make up for the rough edges.
The publication, which was also reproduced by Cadena Agramonte, quickly sparked a reaction that the official outlet itself did not expect: that of its own readers, who rushed to the comments with a mix of astonishment, irony, and secondhand embarrassment.
"Is this what they call serious journalism?" one person asked. "Cubadebate needs to have more self-respect," another asserted. "They've really gone overboard," a third declared. "You’re losing your composure, colleagues," warned someone else, with a courtesy that the current ideological editor clearly lacked. "The editors have been listening to too much reggaeton," diagnosed another internet user, directly pointing to the music genre that the regime has been trying to censor for years. And therein lies a slight irony.
In 2019, Cubadebate actively participated in the defense of Decree 349, the regulation that the regime used to target artistic expressions deemed "vulgar," attack reggaeton, and criminalize profanity in Cuban popular culture. The same outlet that was then outraged by the lyrics of reggaeton has just published a profanity in a news article to defend the regime in front of the international community. The revolution has its own standards, they will say, and apparently, they are flexible.
Of course, the oven in which this cake of patriotic chusmería is produced is not for pastries. Since January 29, 2026, the Trump administration has declared a "national emergency" citing what it called an "unusual and extraordinary threat" from the Cuban government. The Island was re-added to the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism on January 20, 2025, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth confirmed before Congress on May 12 that the regime poses a threat to the national security of the United States.
Facing that pressure, the ever-eloquent Miguel Díaz-Canel stated that "Cuba has never threatened the United States", and the Communist Party even claimed that they had demonstrated to the CIA director that Cuba poses no threat whatsoever. Meanwhile, Marco Rubio announced new sanctions against GAESA as part of the maximum pressure campaign.
Cubadebate, which is already known for its verbose onslaught against any gesture of the "genocidal imperialism," has been ramping up its confrontational rhetoric for weeks. But this time, it crossed the line, or rather, it went straight to the front yard, with its hair in disarray.
While the official media "debates" who is or isn't a "bootlicker" in Washington, and in the meantime, eagerly licks what the Cuban military elite commands, ordinary Cubans are still left without electricity, food, and a future. One internet user summarized it sharply: "I don't know how much of a threat it may be to the US government, but for the Cuban people who are on the brink of extermination, it is indeed a serious threat."
And there it is, at last, a display of serious journalism.
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