[News] Who’s Behind the Anti-Cuban Show in San Isidro?

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Behind the Anti-Cuban Show in San Isidro?By Raúl Antonio Capote on December
1, 2020

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San Isidro Movement leader Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara (L), with OAS’s Luis
Almagro. Photo: Granma

Since the end of the 19th century, the San Isidro neighborhood in Old
Havana was considered a “tolerance zone,” until 1959, when life changed
with the triumph of the Revolution.

It was a neighborhood of humble people, harassed by the presence of Yankee
Marines who came ashore in search of fun and cheap sex. Once the butt of
jokes, San Isidro now has 14 family doctors’ offices, a traditional
medicine clinic, a veterinary clinic, three child care centers, a
kindergarten and four schools.

I had the opportunity to interact with residents, during a neighborhood
discussion organized by the local Committee for the Defense of the
Revolution (CDR) about two years ago, a tribute to honor Comandante en
Jefe, Fidel Castro Ruz.

We met, without a stage, no prepared speeches, beneath a kapok tree in a
park. I remember two comments made, one in which, on behalf of all present,
a resident declared his unconditional support for the Revolution, based on
his religious faith.

The other was that of an old man, who called on his fellow citizens to
remember what that place was like before 1959 and how many of them, as
children, knew of cases of women who were abused by the Yankee Marines.

Personal stories of social transformation like these do not constitute
important news for transnational media and virtual networks that these days
have fixed their sights on this densely populated neighborhood.

ANOTHER ANTI-CUBAN SHOW

Daily life in this neighborhood has been altered by a small group of people
– 14 in total, four of them members of the so-called San Isidro Movement –
who have become the center of a new counter-revolutionary show, sponsored
and supported by the U.S. government.

The show is very similar to those staged on other occasions by other
mercenary groups and puppets in the service of the U.S. government. Let us
not forget the notorious, ridiculous fake “avocado strike,” in which its
promoter was caught enjoying a delicious menu.

Not all of the actors in the performance play the same role: Some say they
are on a food and water deprivation strike, others say they are on a hunger
strike, and several say they are “guaracheando,” as can be seen in live
transmissions, a kind of reality show members of the “movement” post on
social media, for the purpose of self-promotion which also serves to report
on their “work” to those who finance them.

The group, for the moment, has two demands. The first is the release of
Denis Solís González, presented as a young censored artist, who they allege
went missing after being detained by the police.

Denis Solís is currently serving an eight-month prison sentence for
criminal contempt of authorities. He has not appealed the verdict.

The Cuban Rap Agency, an internationally recognized cultural institution,
exposed the crude argument that the manipulators use regarding their
relationship with the art form: “The voice of a beginner without a
consolidated body of work cannot be invoked as representative of our hip
hop, much less when it is known that the interests he defends are part of
an orchestrated subversive plan against the Cuban Revolution.”

The nature of the plot became apparent in short order, clarified by Solís
himself, who, in a video broadcast on social media, admitted having ties
with individuals who have financed violent acts against Cuba, as is the
case of José Luis Fernández Figueras, accused by the Cuban justice system
of being part of a terrorist group based in Miami, who promised to send
Solís $200 if he complied with his instructions.

WHAT IS THE SO-CALLED SAN ISIDRO MOVEMENT?

The fabricated San Isidro Movement, the center of a media boom orchestrated
by an articulated network of media at the service of U.S. interests, in no
way represents the humble, hard-working, revolutionary neighborhood from
which they have taken their name and which repudiates the presence of
people who live off scandal, commit degrading acts and even manipulate
minors to participate in their crude, provocative performances.

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who is identified as the leader of the group,
has an extensive record of provocations, trained and supported by Mara
Tekach, when she was in the chargé de affaires at the U.S. Embassy in
Havana. Congressmen who have promoted the tightening of the genocidal
blockade against the Cuban people are among the politicians he admires.

Evident in the reality shows they mount are the existential and cultural
degradation of the group, as well as their ties to Miami terrorists who
have carried out violent actions against our country.

In one of their live broadcasts, a member of the alleged Movement greeted
terrorist William González Cabrera, who is responsible for financing
attacks on facilities and establishments in Cuba, like those involving
setting fires in a cafeteria, a barbershop and a neighborhood store.
Another member of the group asked about actions to be carried out with
Molotov cocktails.

While the script unfolded focusing on solidarity with Denis Solis, his
“brothers” in the cause could be seen celebrating in a video posted on
social media, showing an attitude that contrasted sharply with the talk of
“martyrdom” they had promoted just hours earlier.

The second demand that they invented, as a pretext to gain popularity with
their provocative efforts, is the elimination of the stores in freely
convertible currency (MLC) a measure made necessary by the Trump
administration’s intensification of economic persecution and the blockade,
aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The same individuals who are making this demand are buying food imported
from abroad in these stores through an online platform, regardless of the
hunger and thirst strike they claim to support.

WHO IS PULLING THE STRINGS?

The new show, orchestrated from Washington and Miami, is part of plans for
subversion against Cuba, and has precedents in other similar actions
organized, executed and financed by that government with the goal of
destroying the Revolution.

If we analyze the modus operandi of the so-called San Isidro Movement,
being implemented are many of standard tactics used in the “soft coup”
strategy outlined in the manual by U.S. political scientist Gene Sharp,
with striking similarities to plans executed in the Ukrainian Maidán,
Venezuela’s street barricade “guarimbas” and actions by groups of
delinquents during the coup d’état against Evo Morales in Bolivia.

Easily observed is the tendency to recruit thugs and individuals of low
moral standing who lend themselves to serve as agents of a foreign
government, promoting chaos and feeding the narrative of violence and
repression in Cuba, disseminated by a well financed and articulated network
of digital and traditional media.

U.S. government officials have made no secret of their complicity with the
events in Havana, a fact that contrasts with our government’s position of
not interfering in the internal affairs of other countries.

Michael Kozak, acting undersecretary of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau
of Western Hemisphere Affairs, a fervent promoter of the blockade and the
end of remittances, has made several statements of support for the San
Isidro Movement, as has Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio, whose
anti-Cuban record is well known to our people. Luis Almagro, secretary
general of the discredited OAS, could not miss the opportunity to chime in
and express his support for the latest anti-Cuban action.

U.S. officials, anti-Cuban Congress members and the OAS Secretary General
are not interested in the effect on health that their irresponsible
attitude could have on some of those involved. What they seek at all costs
is to discredit the exemplary record of the Revolution, recently recognized
by the election of Cuba as a member of the UN Human Rights Council, and
garner support for the U.S. government’s justifications to maintain the
genocidal blockade that affects our entire people.

This provocative action, responding to strings pulled in Washington and
Miami, is intended to negate the rich history of the Revolution, which
includes no precedent for giving into pressure from the empire, or a
handful of posers. In January 1959, the Cuban people learned the value of
independence, sovereignty and devotion to the full dignity of man. We are
not willing to renounce these conquests that have cost so much glorious
blood.

Source: Granma
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