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U.S. Media Ignores Cuba’s Role in Haitian Relief Efforts

January 15, 2010 at 5:03 PM 1 comment

We Americans are, of course, supposed to hate Cuba. It’s governed by old, insane men who flail their arms around while giving 8-hour speeches during which they criticize the pure-of-heart U.S.  It’s a dark, menacing place where bad people live.

So when Cuba does something that might run counter to what we’re supposed to believe, we just don’t hear about it:

Like the fact that,

completely unmentioned is the reality that Cuba already had over 340 doctors, EMTs and other medical personnel posted to Haiti to help with the day-to-day health needs of this poorest nation in the Americas, and that those medical professionals were the first to respond to the disaster, setting up a hospital right next to the main hospital in Port-au-Prince which collapsed in the earthquake.

Or if we do hear about it, it’s propagandized as was the case (shocking, I know) with Faux News, which claimed, “that the Cubans were absent from the list of neighboring Caribbean countries providing aid.”

Propaganda isn’t always limited to misinformation or lies.  Propaganda can be the omission of information as well, which is pretty much what we get around here when it comes to Cuba.

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