Yesterday we received notice of the publication in digital format of a book by Javier Gómez, dean of the FAMCA, which is tremendously current.

"Those who heal and those who poison, pages of a media pandemic"

rescues articles published in various Cuban digital and print media, where it is shown and analyzed with concrete examples how, through fake news and manipulations, the media war against Cuba in the course of the COVID19 pandemic, generating states of uncertainty and social panic.

Those who follow in real time, that media war that does not stop and have been aware of what certain sites published in the last few hours, must have experienced a kind of déjá vú,

the certainty that we are already experiencing something exactly the same.

And Javier's book appears at the right time to tell us that yes, this has already happened and continues to happen.

Reinier Duardo considers that now it is a new peak of the same campaign.

Only the reason changes.

In some localities there have been protests and cauldrons sounded, as signs of irritation without much depth, although in some cases rude attitudes and expressions of incitement to disturbance of order are noted.

Coincidentally, not coincidentally, the same accounts of the same haters who stand out for being the ones who announce and publish before anyone else and from abroad, even the slightest negative event that occurs inside Cuba, are the ones that lead the reports of those protests.

This is seasoned with the intentional publication of some fake news markedly oriented to the so-called assassination of reputation (such as the luxury hostel that was credited to a son of the Prime Minister with numerous false messages or the so-called parody accounts of personalities from the country) and the hyperbolization of journalistic notes, linked to the patriotic dates in celebration.

The climax of the manipulations these days is associated with the strong electricity generation crisis, but it is very reminiscent in its details of the strategy applied in 2021, at the worst moment of the COVID 19 pandemic, which is the context in which the Xavier's book

Mag Jorge Castro, who was denounced from Bolivia a few days ago, for his active management in disseminating the current anti-Cuban campaign from abroad, is one of those who hyperbolizes the real situation that the country is suffering to incite protest.

If it is violent, better.

In the last hours there was a very specific case, of a person who attacked the Marianao government headquarters with stones, injuring a custodian.

The citizen involved was arrested and will be brought before the courts, as reported by the authorities.

Bárbara Betancourt recalled a recent intervention by President Díaz Canel before the National Assembly, acknowledging the logical discomfort and even citizen protest, when the effects are prolonged and it is not fully understood that the country is going through an absolutely objective situation of problems derived from the blockade. the two years of pandemic and a global crisis that has many countries under the impact of additional economic stresses.

You may not accept it, you may refuse to understand it, but this does not solve the problem and Díaz-Canel warned that what is unacceptable is violence, aggression or attack as a reaction to problems that immediately transcend real capacity. solution in the hands of the Government.

And as a Uruguayan friend who cares for her daughter in Cuba also warned,

, in a clear allusion to the countries of the region that thought they could alleviate their situation by selling basic services and today large masses of their populations bear the cost of those neoliberal policies that did not even solve the debt problems.

Returning to Javier Gómez's book and the analyzes it proposes, let's situate ourselves in those hours of uncertainty of 2020 and 2021, before knowing the real scope of the epidemic, while every day on the networks a different and the same story was told.

The same in terms of blaming the government for whatever, questioning what it did and what it didn't.

Baby recalled that Díaz-Canel also wondered in the Assembly if anyone can believe that the government wants to take the current from the people.

And from the networks, María del Carmen Hernández Carús, so central in her analysis, asked the most logical of questions: what sense does it make to think that the Revolution that electrified this country to 95 percent and more, may want to take away the service to whom it has given them, with the lowest cost compared to the generality of the planet.

The irritation when the blackout is prolonged is really understandable.

And, although the enemy of the Cuban nation has insisted on demonizing and denigrating the Revolution, who can doubt that those who have responsibilities, whether or not they have blackouts, suffer for everyone, because it is up to them to solve everyone's problem, unlike those who are only interested in solving their own.

What we all suffer from is the balance of the long-term work of the blockade, of the Mallory Memorandum: making everything that is difficult on a global level, more irritating here, because they are added to more than 60 years with the pressures, the closures, blackmail, the persecution of the blockade.

On the Ocean Sur site, Javier's book can be downloaded by those who are interested in knowing, from the opinion and analysis of an expert, how social networks are used to make us believe that our problems have no way out, precisely to prevent them from having one.

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