Tangential Reaction to Obama’s Visit

Tangential Reaction to Obama's Visit / Regina Coyula
Posted on March 23, 2016

Regina Coyula, 23 March 2016 — The reactions of the press have been
quick to come. Yet, the visit from the American president has given us
much to talk about. But I want to talk about comments from Rosa Miriam
Elizalde yesterday on the Roundtable program on Cuban state TV. With
respect to the offering of internet made during Barack Obama's visit,
the director of the portal Cubadebate could not think of a better way to
refute this offer than to appeal to the example of an African country
where a Swedish NGO installed magnificent internet service and the
Africans, because they didn't know how to use it, have it "filled with
noise." The same thing, she said, could happen here to Cubans.

I will leave each of you to your musings provoked by the journalist's
reflection. In my case, I think the real reason for their eagerness to
put a negative spin on it is nothing more than to deny access to the
content that each person could choose for themselves had they
the freedom that, in Cuba, the government keeps for itself without
consulting its citizens. Elizalde, with privileged access to internet of
the highest quality, chose to appear arrogant, ignoring the educational
level of Cubans and putting Cuba at the level of Africa.

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