Cuban regime intensifies persecution of dissenting voices: it will seek to fight against “politico-ideological subversion” on the Internet and social networks

The governor Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) assured this Saturday that will seek to be more effective in the fight against “politico-ideological subversion” on the internet and on social networks.

This will be one of the goals that only part of the island will seek to achieve in its VIII Congress which will take place between April 16 and 19, according to an article published by the newspaper Granma, organ of the CPC Central Committee.

“Convinced that, in terms of thought, this is the greatest war that has been waged against us, the Party has included in its work system the monitoring and confrontation of politico-ideological subversion as a permanent scenario of confrontation with internet and social networks has on the internet and social networks. enemy“, he underlined.

The fast internet streaming to mobile phones and wifi areas over the past three years in the country open to Cubans a unknown access to information and to a forum of opinion, until then reserved for state media.

This reality changed the national political landscape, where the ruling party appears several times in the defense of messages from emigrants or Cuban residents on the island showing their dissent and discontent.

It is increasingly common for these critical citizens, artists or independent journalists express your dissatisfaction in social networks What record with a phone in the street how you are being watched outside your home by the Cuban police.

Many times this action is worth holding for hours. The musician Maykel Osorbo, one of the artists who participates in the viral video of Homeland and life, denounced having been arrested three times last week. Song recorded by Cuban emigrant and resident artists sought after oppose the political meaning of the slogan “Fatherland or death”, launched by the leader of the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro, In 1960.

“The Congress will focus its gaze on how to achieve higher efficiency in all fields and all forms, using the means available to undertake the communication battle with more creativity and intelligence”, he pointed Granma.

He added that “the development of an effective information policy and adequate social communication will continue to play a fundamental role”, seeking to have a greater presence on all platforms.

With information from AFP

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