• PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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      5 hours ago

      Firsthand account from a woman in Varadero I met when I was in Cuba last year.

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        So an entirely unverifiable claim from a random person on the internet of a secondhand account of someone said random person claims to have met of a supposed “large massacre” that to my knowledge has never been reported on? Allow me to be skeptical.

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          I don’t really care if you personally don’t believe it. By your logic, you shouldn’t trust anything you read on social media as it’s all unverified claims by random people on the internet.

          This is what a local bus driver in Varadero told us last year. It checks out with the verified reports of protests against the government at the same time. It’s an authoritarian country so it could be possible that certain events are reported in a censored manner.

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            No, not all claims on the internet are unverifiable, many come with irrefutable proof. Secondly, you’re giving me a source that is known to lie about socialist countries backing you up, that’s de-legitimizing you. In fact, we know that western media distorted the extent of the 2021 protests using manipulated images, and failing to cover (or doing so in limited amounts) that the pro-government protests were greater than the anti-government protests.

            Further, Cuba is a democratic country. It treats capitalists and slavers from the Batista era with authority, but is comprehensively democratic for the working class, which is why the people support the government and place the blame on the US Empire and its brutal embargo. All states are “authoritarian,” what matters is which class is being represented. In Cuba, it’s the working class.