A ton of corporate media outlets waited until the last paragraph of their stories to even mention the blockade as a reason for the economic problems
This is despite the fact that official US documents explicitly state that the goal is to bring about hunger & a collapse in wages
Corporate media also used pictures of demos in Miami or even the more numerous PRO-government protests to illustrate how big and impressive the anti-government action on the island was.
Meanwhile, Fox News allowed the mayor of Miami to demand airstrikes on Cuba.
The take home message from media coverage was that "socialism doesn't work, maybe bombing will."
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I've been very skeptical of the numbers and images corporate media are using for the Cuba protests🇨🇺.
This is one of the only shots where you get a sense of how big it was.
NBC used it under the headline "thousands protest in Cuba."
I manually count 175 people in this photo.
Why were so many of the pictures used close ups where you couldn't tell how big the action was? That's what politicians do when no one attends their rally.
I might be off by 5 or 10 (the pic quality isn't great). But this ain't thousands.
OMG after they showed that clip they cut to this photo of a PRO-GOVERNMENT demo (note the red and black flags emblazoned with Fidel Castro's political movement, 26 Julio), claiming it was an anti-government protest.
1) Marco Rubio celebrated the protests as being "started by artists, not politicians."
What he doesn't say is that US agencies have been funding those very same art/music communities for years, with CIA fronts, the NED and USAID plowing $$$ into them in in hopes of regime change
2) Cuban hip-hop stars immediately endorsed and even led the demos.
Yet the NED's most recent report notes that it is grooming rappers to become anti-communist leaders.
[Thread] My new @MintPressNews long form article on why the lab leak has gone viral in independent/alternative media, despite the lack of evidence supporting it.
This is not an attack on them. Rather, I hope they read this and reconsider their positions.
Much of the new wave of pro-lab leak thought is based on the work of Nicholas Wade, a disgraced racist pseudoscientist who thinks black people are poorer because they're genetically more violent and lazy. Wade's theories on Jews have earned plaudits from the KKK and David Duke.
The US government is funding NGOs in Venezuela that are urging people not to get the Cuban vaccine - the only one that is available.
Unreal levels of savagery. 🇺🇸🇻🇪
There isn't even one word the the story about the WHO, yet Bloomberg puts them in the headline to make it seem like it it's the Cuban and Venezuelan government who are the anti-science ones. Pathetic.
Also, as @v_zilber points out, "homemade vaccines" makes them sound like the medical equivalent of moonshine, adding to the scaremongering.