CAMBIOSENCUBA.BLOGSPOT.COM Friday, October 30, 2009 Yoani Sánchez: from cyber-lowlife to cyber-clown ![]() Soon! Videotape series on cyberclowning By M. H. Lagarde A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann. No better idea could have got into the mercenary Yoani Sánchez’s head than show up disguised –as a German?– in a debate about the role of the Internet in Cuban culture, organized by the magazine Temas. Her strange cross-dressing describes and defines this character perfectly. Not only her deportment, but everything about her is forged, make-believe, manipulative and deceiving. Much like her blog, of course: another fraud from beginning to end. It’s neither citizen journalism nor independent press, not to mention that nowhere in her pages does it say anything worth calling “sound analysis”. Based in a foreign country (Germany), its articles are nothing but a poor, run-of-the-mill copy –posted in the Internet– of the lines followed by the editorial policies that the U.S. intelligence services have designed for and used in their smear campaigns against Cuba for 50 years. The above is the best answer to the question this mercenary asked in the debate, held at the Cuban Film Institute’s Fresa y Chocolate Cultural Center. That’s likely to be the reason why her blog –which is not censored, as she falsely claims– is not more visible in Cuba: because our nation, as any other in the world, has the right to defend itself from the media wars, regardless of their technological vehicle. Out of force of habit, Cuba can easily recognize a mercenary, never mind that they dress up as Poles or Germans. Their goals and intentions –brown-nose to the Northern power– are always one and the same. No less fake were the theatrical –and hysterical– gestures of this cyber-lowlife turned cyber-clown when she thought she had fooled everyone in her disguise of an undercover agent at the service of a foreign country and showed surprise –no one really knows why– when the moderator instructed her to use the microphone calling her by her name (obviously, the mercenary had requested the floor under a phony name: “Ah, thank goodness you called me by my name,” she said. “We all knew you where there,” replied the officer with a smile. I myself had taped the German-looking yuma[1] for almost half an hour before the debate started. There she was, the super secret agent, wearing a blonde wig, a sparkling two-colored stole, a black dress, strapped shoes and a yellow purse. On her well-lit stage, however, the false actress would deliver anyway the spiel she had prepared in advance. Yoani Sánchez (taking off her wig with motions typical of a Brazilian soap opera): I had to come dressed like this (and showed the unkempt wig) so I could get around the police cordon around my house. Unfortunate dramatics, as bogus and feeble as her costume, performed by this odd victim of harassment who tends to her blog from peaceful five-star hotel lobbies, comes in and out of embassies out of hours, brainwashes churchgoing children, films military personnel on the sly right there in their institutions and without their consent, runs a blogger academy in her own place and –unlike other mercenaries–is allowed in the premises and, on top of that, given the chance to speak so she can blurt whatever nonsense she feels like saying out to the cameras. If anything can be said in favor of this woman who was born in Cayo Hueso –not in Key West– is not a cyber-lowlife. No siree, she’s not. She’s a cyber-clown. It only remains for us to wait for the announcement in countless mass media that the Cirque du Soleil has given her the Award for best clown of the year. [1] Cuban slang for ‘foreigner’ (T.N.).
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viernes 30 de octubre de 2009
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