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Granma: Invisible Web Weaves Hate and Narrative War Against Cuba

From Granma · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

At a glance

News Named sources Context piece
  • Cuba is the target of a sophisticated narrative war, employing disinformation and hate speech online, according to a Granma article.
  • The article claims international media outlets and social media influencers, particularly from Miami, are part of a planned discursive construction to destabilize Cuba.
  • It accuses these actors of using agenda-setting, framing, and post-truth tactics to portray Cuba negatively, focusing on economic crisis and social unrest.

From the heart of Cuba, Granma observes with clarity the insidious nature of the narrative war waged against our nation. The imperialist enemy, unable to defeat us on the battlefield, now deploys its most potent weapon: the manipulation of consciousness through a sophisticated disinformation campaign. This is not mere reporting; it is a meticulously planned operation orchestrated from media power centers and executed by a legion of hate operators on social networks, particularly those based in Miami.

Cuba, small island of dignified resistance, is today the target of a hypertrophic communication device, designed from centers of media power and executed by a legion of hate operators on social networks.

— GranmaDescribing the perceived external forces targeting Cuba.

We see through the flimsy pretexts used by outlets like CiberCuba and El Nuevo Herald. They do not report; they construct a discourse designed to sow discord and justify aggression. Their strategy, rooted in the theories of Agenda Setting and Framing, seeks to invert reality. The international blockade, a genocidal act under international law, is reframed as mere 'pressure measures.' Our people's resistance is distorted into 'authoritarian regime.' This deliberate inversion aims to paint the victim as the aggressor, the defender as the oppressor.

The media industry has set three recurrent topics: economic crisis, social unrest, and 'imminent implosion.' The mechanism is as old as it is effective: repeat until the anomaly becomes discursive normality.

— GranmaExplaining the media's alleged agenda-setting strategy against Cuba.

When reality contradicts their fabricated narrative, they resort to post-truth, where emotion trumps fact. Images of empty shelves, a direct consequence of the intensified blockade, are amplified without context. Isolated protests are magnified into insurrections. This is how they seek to break the Spiral of Silence, emboldening radical voices while silencing those who defend our sovereignty. The operators of hate, with their 'own-fabrication' content and 'misleading connections,' link every local difficulty to fabricated corruption or political persecution, ignoring the external pressures that truly shape our circumstances.

The interpretive framework is inverted: the attacked appears as the attacker; the victim, as the victimizer.

— GranmaAnalyzing the framing techniques used to misrepresent Cuba's situation.

This narrative war is a critical front in the defense of our revolution. It seeks to isolate Cuba, to demonize our government, and to undermine the will of our people. But we, as journalists of Granma, remain steadfast in exposing these machinations. We will continue to analyze these tactics, armed with the theory of communication, to defend the truth and the dignity of Cuba against those who seek to destabilize our nation through lies and manufactured hatred.

When reality contradicts the framework, post-truth comes into play: feeling matters more than facts.

— GranmaDescribing the use of post-truth tactics in the narrative war against Cuba.
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Originally published by Granma in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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