Exiliarse y seguir: ¿Qué ha pasado con el periodismo independiente cubano luego del histórico 11J?

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00:00What are your thoughts on the Cuban journalist movement?

00:07We as journalists, who are educated and want to continue doing journalism,

00:11once we leave Cuba, of course we want to continue doing that,

00:15but we face very different conditions.

00:19We are in exile, we have more connection facilities,

00:24we are no longer repressed,

00:28But we also face challenges from a material point of view,

00:32from the point of view of insertion in the new society.

00:35First, the precariousness in which we journalists in Cuba are subjected

00:38is reflected when we get to the third century.

00:40We arrive without any kind of purchasing power or without any economic protection.

00:46And that influences because in the world you don't exchange,

00:50you buy things to be able to live.

00:52For me it was very hard, stressful and painful.

00:57Because I've never really had,

01:02nor do I have, nor will I be afraid to write and face the dictatorship.

01:07You need a lot of support from an economic point of view,

01:10from many points of view,

01:12to be able to continue your job as a journalist.

01:14You are no longer on the ground,

01:16and now everything has to be done through WhatsApp,

01:18through the phone,

01:20through the sources that remain in Cuba,

01:23and everything becomes much more difficult.

01:24When we get to the century, there is still this kind of precariousness

01:28for the people who try to be journalists.

01:31First, because the Cuban media has very little access to the best sources.

01:34And second, because there is a kind of decantation

01:37that also happens through a filter of struggles

01:39that I have been dragging from Cuba,

01:40such as the issue of anti-racism.

01:42The so-called freedom conceived in the Cuban constitution

01:46in its articles 54 and 56

01:49allows you to speak of what you feel like,

01:53less what bothers the dictatorship.

01:56You face all kinds of threats, repressions,

01:59you threaten your life, the prison, and everything.

02:02Of course, many of us are not willing to do that,

02:06because the most important thing for a journalist

02:08is to report, it is the news.

02:10When you start to see, to make a panorama

02:12of the journalists who are doing the same Cuban journalism,

02:16you would not be able to mention any Afro-descendant,

02:20or at least someone who is recognized as an Afro-descendant.

02:22You move away from your family, you move away from your land,

02:26you face a lot of economic challenges,

02:32challenges of a new society, a new language.

02:36And many of the journalists who have decided to emigrate

02:40have not been able to continue doing journalism.

02:42The pain of the prison is the hardest,

02:44the most devastating of the pains,

02:46the one that kills intelligence and desecrates the soul,

02:50leaving in them traces that will never be erased.

02:56The truth will always continue its march,

02:59without anyone or anyone being able to stop it,

03:03destroy it or cover it up.

03:05We can be sure of that.

03:20We can be sure of that.

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