The Cuban regime raised the number of wounded to six the tumultuous fight that broke out this Saturday in what is known as Finca de los Monos In the Habana.
The data was made public this Sunday by the official spokesperson Humberto Lopez during the broadcast of National Television News (NTV)in a peculiar news coverage that did not include images of the massive fight and focused on “denying” what was published by independent media, which it accused of being alarmist and manipulative.
Hours after the news went viral on social networks and in the face of silence from the official media, the government of Havana published a statement in which it denied alleged reported deaths and He assured that the events left two people injuredwho had been treated in hospital centers.
In addition, he also attacked the media that reported the event and stated that the event was an “unapproved activity.” even though it had been announced on Cuban state televisionwhere nothing is promoted if it does not have the proper institutional endorsements.
“Unfortunately, the incident caused two injuries, who received immediate medical attention without danger to life. There are no deaths,” indicated the text from the capital authorities.
However, hours later and after the magnitude of some events that were impossible to hide by the regime’s censors, the official press echoed the official versions and offered a partial and sweetened account of one of the most violent episodes. that have been seen in Cuban society, carried out by groups of young people and adolescents armed with machetes and other bladed weapons.
“The note [del gobierno de La Habana] It does talk about injuries,” López acknowledged. “One is currently admitted to the William Soler Hospital, he is 18 years old, he is out of danger after having undergone surgery at the Joaquín Albarrán Domínguez Clinical Surgical Hospital (26-year-old Clinician, as he is known)”.
In relation to the second injured person, López explained that It was a 20-year-old young man, who was also treated at the 26-year-old Clinical Hospital “for a wound that required suturing and was discharged.”.
“But this note was at noon. They have continued the investigations and it turns out that we already know that In addition to those two, four other people were treated at the 26-year-old Clinical Hospital. A 15-year-old minor, a 20-year-old man, another 41-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman were treated.”the presenter reported.
As he explained, everyone received medical attention. “The woman was discharged, but the other three [pacientes] “They left the institution irresponsibly,” López added.
Its information space did not show a single one of the images and videos that circulated on social networks, in which groups of young people were seen in a threatening attitude walking through the streets of the capital armed with machetes and other sharp weapons. However, López accused the independent press of manipulation and “unscrupulous attitudes to try to discredit Cuba with falsehoods.”
Far from reporting on the facts, the star presenter of Cuban counterintelligence dedicated himself to “analyzing how the facts were manipulated and exposing the attitude of people and media” who made “false news circulate.” In addition, he gave a detailed explanation of the protocols established in order to validate the capital’s government’s statements about the “non-authorization” to hold the event.
“The journalism in this country is disgusting. They don’t put up a video of what happened, of the hundreds of young people running around (and many with machetes) so that people can see the level of violence there is, and in the process alert blind parents. Ah nooooo, it is better to say that everything was because the activity was not authorized and that’s it,” protested a Cuban in the Facebook group ‘Cuban mothers for a better world’.
“It wasn’t authorized, right? And the promotion even aired on the Havana channel. The point is not whether it was authorized or not. That does not take away the savagery that was there, and that which has been unleashed lately throughout Cuba. Two days ago there was a picket in my neighborhood with sharpened sticks and throwing stones at the houses and everything. And then? Doesn’t anyone see anything? ”The woman concluded in her comment, similar to dozens of others who repudiated the manipulation of the official press and the regime’s efforts to hide the wave of violence that is growing in the country.
