The Wages of Fear

Wages of Fear

By Pedro Gonzalez Munne

 

  To be fair, not all colleagues in Miami suffer from the evils of a nubile
crotch. Some have been quick to understand how to survive in this farm with
traffic lights and airs of  metropolis.

The heroes of the stampede, once  transplanted to this swamp by  imperial
will more than 50 years ago, with their retinue of accomplices, prostitutes
and chaplains , have enriched themselves by participating in happy American
adventures in Central and South America, Africa and even Europe. They have
turned  the swamp into a refuge for murderers, terrorists and criminals of
all kinds, whose payment for serving the powerful has been this putrid
piece of land to fry  their skins in the sun.

  But they have not only received the gift of the residence and the
forgiveness of their sins. For decades the empire has given tens of millions
of taxpayer dollars to support them as a reward for their services as
mercenaries, political murderers, terrorist and criminal adventures as were
required, even within the U.S. territory.

   The lists of multi-millionaire payments from institutions like the
National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and USAID, merrily skipping over
federal laws and regulations, which expressly forbid  financing such
programs within U.S. territories are, in the case of the Cuban-American
community, a who’s who of former members of intelligence institutions,
criminals and even terrorists convicted and confessed.

   It is therefore very difficult for any journalist, reporter or editor in
Miami to go against the current, because retaliation against those who
oppose the interests of these criminals who are well funded and equipped, to
the inclusion of economic terrorism, as once told by ,the late colleague
Emilio Milian, himself a victim of a bomb, a crime whose perpetrators were
never brought to justice,like the late Jorge Mas Canosa , the architect of
the downfall of the radio station and other Milian companies.

  Here there are not scholastic concepts like "free speech", "democracy" and
" a free exchange of ideas". Here there is only the cruel reality of
repression against those who write or place on air a word against these
groups, as they are just put out into the street blacklisted for any
position in the local press of this free “territory” of the United States,
free that is, of U.S. laws. Examples abound of threats, attacks and daily
clashes in the streets of Miami

   And now, in the midst of a fierce election campaign for the presidency,
Democrats are faced with the true fate of those millions of dollars paid by
the Obama Administration to these "exile organizations," that now finance
the attacks and deceits against him in the local Hispanic media, while
praising the Republican candidate.

   Such are the oddities of this country, these contradictions between the
political and imperial interests. But those in newsrooms and radio stations,
in corridors and streets, we who are confronted every day by these criminal
groups, we understand very well how hard it is to give up the wages of fear,
because the peril is not just for journalists, but their families, their
friends and any others advocating the right to freely express their ideas.

  It is time for the press and American institutions, so accustomed to look
at the speck in thy neighbor's eye and "denounce" human rights abuses and
freedom of expression to the four corners of the world, to instead focus for
a while on Miami, as the application of justice for this community, a now
preferred corner for criminals and terrorists of the XXI century in the
United States of America, can no longer wait.

 

Director of  <http://www.thecubannation.com> www.thecubannation.com. Five
books published, one coming. Four national journalism awards in Cuba.  The
most recent articles can be found in  <http://www.pedrogonzalezmunne.com>
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