You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to
When a vile and repressive regime is as loved and revered by the press as the Cuban dictatorship is, what was once objective now becomes subjective. One man's oppression is another man's freedom from choice; one man's slavery is another man's job security; one man's forced indoctrination is another man's free education. And in the case of Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, one woman's brutal beating by state security is another woman's brief detention by police.
There is no doubt that Reuters had come across the statements given by Yoani regarding her brutal encounter yesterday with the dictatorship's goons, but all they saw was that the blogger was "detained briefly."
Blogger Yoani Sanchez detained briefly in Cuba
HAVANA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Well-known Cuban blogger and government critic Yoani Sanchez said she and two fellow bloggers were detained briefly on Friday by security agents and accused of being "counter-revolutionaries" as they walked to a demonstration against violence.
Sanchez, 34, told Reuters the agents forced her and blogger Orlando Luis Pardo into a car as they neared the demonstration in Havana's Vedado district, took them to a spot near her home and dropped them off, throwing her purse on the street as they drove away.
"We were detained by three men who came in a black Chinese car," said Sanchez, who is known internationally for her "Generation Y" blog, which frequently criticizes Cuba's communist-led government.
Sanchez said she told people standing nearby they were being kidnapped, but the men told the bystanders: "They are counter-revolutionaries. Don't get involved."
"There was no chance to resist, they were strong men."
The men offered no explanation for the seizure, but Sanchez said she believes they were preventing her from attending the demonstration. "I'm flustered. It has been very intense," she said. She said she had a sore shoulder and back from the encounter, but no serious injuries.
Pardo was released with her and had no injuries, she said. Another blogger, Claudia Cadelo, was taken away in a separate police car and released unharmed at a different location.
Yoani saw and experienced violent oppression, Reuters, however, just saw a brief detention.
It is no wonder the world is blind to the atrocities that have been taking place in Cuba for the past 50 years.
If reading the actual accounts written by Yoani and others manages to bring tears to my eyes, the subsequent reading of the Reuters report (viciously exempt from telling details), fills me with the most awful, impotent rage......
"Reuters, however, just saw a brief detention."
Well, that's not fair. The Reuters article quoted Yoani as saying she was "detained" and they also quoted her saying: "I'm flustered. It has been very intense," she said. She said she had a sore shoulder and back from the encounter, but no serious injuries.
In fact, almost this entire article is nothing but quotes from Yoani.
Cubabuzz,
They didn't fail to quote her, they FAILED to quote her completely, leaving out that they pulled out hair, that they put her head down and feet upward in the car, that they put a knee to her back and that they told her, her time was up.
That is where "Reuters" FAILED. They also could have called the incident a kidnapping, and not a detention, as the people who commited the crime did not identify themselves as official government thugs.