The Apologies of Agent Percy

The Apologies of Agent Percy
July 13, 2012
Fernando Ravsberg

Percy Alvarado half apologized to only some of the many people he slandered.

HAVANA TIMES — Cuban security operative Percy Francisco Alvarado Godoy
just apologized (on his Spanish language blog) for having accused
several personalities and intellectuals of working against the
revolution, implicating them in the plans for a cyber-war orchestrated
by the United States.

Percy affirms that "honest people apologize for the mistakes and errors
committed." He speaks as if he had made a few typos or misspelled some
names, though he knows perfectly well what such accusations means in Cuba.

What's more, such accusations are more serious when they come from no
other than a Cuban security agent who has a website titled Descubriendo
verdades (Discovering Truths), where "declassified files" are revealed.

Doing a balancing act he has turned himself into a victim, because
following his small mistake he was attacked in cyberspace; as he put it,
that error "triggered an avalanche of offensive twitters against me
personally from the counterrevolutionary twittersphere."

The questions that remain for everyone — and which the agent fails to
clear up — is where that contaminated information came from and who
directed him in denouncing those people and others to whom he doesn't
apologize. Was he tricked, misdirected or was it simply his hurried opinion?

Whatever the reason, it turned out to be very serious, and for the
apology to be accepted it deserves a more serious explanation than the
one offered by this agent, especially because I don't think that the
institution he works for wants to see itself involved in such
"neighborhood gossip."

I hope that based on this commentary, Percy doesn't also put me on the
list of "enemies of the revolution paid by the empire." It would be good
if he didn't pointlessly waste what little credibility he has left after
the little "mistake" he has just committed.

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