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When I was in charge of Voice of America broadcasts to Poland in the 1980s, while the independent Solidarity trade union led by Lech Walesa launched its struggle for freedom and democracy, the news the Polish Service received from the central English VOA newsroom was not always well presented, but it was not slanted and biased in favor of the communist dictatorship. The same cannot be said for the VOA report on the Cuban protests, which shows that it was updated at 4:20 a.m., July 12, 2021, but was still misleading and lacking balance.
The VOA News English-language report, titled “Rare Protests Hit Cuba Amid Economic, Coronavirus Crises,” carries a Havana, Cuba, dateline, but the report does not quote a single anti-Castro Cuban protester. Anti-government protests are not rare in Cuba, but the size of the crowds yesterday may have been. That is not the same as saying that anti-regime protests in Cuba are rare. Does VOA News really have a reporter in Cuba, as
To say a lot has changed since the very beginning of the pandemic when reports of a mystery virus started affecting people in Wuhan, China, began would be an understatement of epic proportion.
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