The Green Screen

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/04/20...throw.html

BY JUAN O. TAMAYO
jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com

Cuban bloggers like Yoani Sanchez and young exiles who reach out to their counterparts on the island are part of a U.S. campaign to overthrow the Castro government, according to a secret Cuban video posted on the Internet.

The video also alleges Washington launched a secret effort in 2008 to create 10 wi-fi points around the island that would have allowed up to 250 computers access to the Internet through satellite telephones -- totally independent of Cuban government controls.

The nearly one-hour video appears to be of a secret June 2010 lecture on the Internet's dangers to the revolution, delivered by an Internet expert to an audience of men and women in military uniforms -- likely Armed Forces or Interior Ministry officers.

Its content largely repeats the Cuban government's allegations that independent bloggers and groups like Raices de Esperanza -- Roots of Hope, an organization of young exiles that has been establishing contacts with youths in Cuba -- are part of a U.S. campaign to undermine the Castro government.

Perhaps more surprising is the appearance on the Internet of what is clearly a secret lecture to Cuban security officials.

Available at http://vimeo.com/19402730, the video appears to have been first posted on the Internet by a person identified as Black Coral. It was also posted by the Spain-based blog Penultimos Días.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/04/20...z1D1EQdLjC

This link works...

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/48606

Here is Yoani's answer: Jumping the Barriers
http://www.desdecuba.com/generationy/?p=2287

The Cyberpolice in Cuba from Coral Negro on Vimeo.

Are you one of those who fabricates the lies? Or one of those who believes them? I would like to ask this question of the speaker who deploys a complicated conspiracy theory in this video. If it’s someone who is just sending a message, then the answer is simple: the falsehood is concocted higher up and he is just the messenger. But I fear that part of what he is expounding in front of those grim soldiers — with a constellation of stars on their uniforms — is his own production, cooked up by himself. His lengthy presentation, punctuated with words such as “enemy,” “operative,” and “the evils,” shows me what can happen when one talks about the most modern of technologies using old-fashioned language. He doesn’t seem to understand the affinities and ties that link sites like Facebook and Twitter, but applies a prism of his own making to them, rather than recognize that individuals make their own decisions to join them and — horrors! — jump the ideological barriers. Although he might be a brilliant computer scientist, this young man failed social sciences.

On this fictitious base they design strategies that will barely hurt the Cuban blogosphere. Meanwhile, believing that the impulse does not come from us, but from others who manage us like puppets, they will develop tactics that will make a lot of noise but generate few results. To recognize that the New Man — their New Man — is tired of being a soldier, repeating slogans, applauding at political rallies, and now wants to have his own space for expression, would be like confessing that they have failed. All the walls and boundaries they impose on us in the physical Cuba, we have jumped over into that infinite space that so robs them of their sleep. If they can no longer control us, let them at least console themselves by dismissing us.

*Thanks to the commentator in my blog who sent me the link to this video, the distribution of which is proof positive that our government has lost the monopoly on information, including its classified materials. Viva Cubaleaks!

Translator’s note: Given the length of this video I don’t think we will be able to prepare a translation. The gist of it is a detailed explanation of how Yoani and other dissident bloggers are classified by the government as counterrevolutionary enemies controlled from the U.S. and Spain. There is a proud enumeration of the “Revolutionary” blogs and the accuracy of their attacks on Yoani et al. The principle criticism aimed at the alternative bloggers is that they are trying to break the “ideological barriers” (put in place by the Castro regime). The term “human rights” is repeated as if it is an obscenity. At one point the slide on the screen shows us Fidel’s “blog” and how many “hits” he has (more than half a million!).

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Could anyone write a brief summary of the video in English?

Poor fucker living the lie still and knowing no better or does and doesn't care about anyone but himself and therefore spouting the company line. Hurry up with that fiber optic cable Venezuela so Cubans can exploit it to the next revolution to replace the Black Market Revolution now going on in Cuba and being unsuccessfully tackled by the defunct Raul.

(Feb 05, 2011 10:58 AM)Batt Wrote: [ -> ]Poor fucker living the lie still and knowing no better or does and doesn't care about anyone but himself and therefore spouting the company line. Hurry up with that fiber optic cable Venezuela so Cubans can exploit it to the next revolution to replace the Black Market Revolution now going on in Cuba and being unsuccessfully tackled by the defunct Raul.

I 100% agree with you.

Yes we will infiltrate the Black Market Cuban Revolution with oh my god -------> the truth -----> INFORMATION IS POWER and will only assist Cubans in joining the world against the wishes of the Castro regime and party.

I hope that the days of the regime are counted and that the countdown is in progress.

This only shows how much the Cuban regime fears the people of Cuba.


Blogging is nothing more than freedom of thought and freedom of speech. The Junta is so accustomed to control that they can't bear the idea that free men and women should think for themselves and share their opinions with others.

And this is the reason I dedicate a few hours to translating bloggers. "When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson. For others who wish to promote liberty in the world, go to http://www.hemosoido.com, spend a few hours on translating bloggers, so that the Cuban state will fear the bloggers, and the people of Cuba will lose their fear of the government.