You won’t see any campaigns from BLM or the left in defense of this Afro-Cuban Washington Post columnist. That’s because Abraham Jimenez Enoa suffers under a socialist regime.
In a sobering column that clearly illustrates the misery of living under a communist dictatorship, Jimenez Enoa explains that if you don’t hear from him again, it’s because he has been imprisoned by the Castro regime.
If this is my last column here, it’s because I’ve been imprisoned in Cuba
As I felt the cold metal of the handcuffs dig into my wrists and tried to adjust my body after being forced to hunch forward, I looked at my shoes and wondered how a government can be so afraid of reality that it tramples with impunity over someone willing to show the world that reality. Shortly before, three state security agents dressed as civilians had strip-searched me and made me face a wall to handcuff me, and now I was being taken in a car to their headquarters for interrogation. One of the agents had his right arm pressing over my body during part of the trip to keep my head down.
I suffered a very serious act of violence on Thursday, but what happened to me was not even the worst of the arbitrary detentions that political dissidents, activists, artists and other independent journalists frequently suffer in Cuba. It is a fact that many fundamental rights, such as freedom of expression, press and association, don’t exist in Cuba, because the regime is incapable of coexisting with people who think differently. But the Cuban government not only systematically commits flagrant violations of human rights, it also has the nerve of seeking a seat on the Human Rights Council of the United Nations.
In Cuba, the only journalists authorized by the state to practice the profession are those who decide to do so in the Communist Party media, which is the only party recognized by the state. This is what the constitution dictates. Therefore, the regime has the power to harass and repress journalists who work outside that legal umbrella, in the ecosystem of independent media.
State security is the agency tasked with making our lives difficult, the one in charge of hijacking the reality of Cuba. State security can have your mother fired from her job. State security can summon your father for questioning. State security can write slanderous messages to your pregnant partner. State security can put a neighbor in jail and then question that neighbor just because he’s your friend. State security can detain you at your own home whenever they please. State security can prohibit you from leaving the country. State security can tap your phones and cut off your Internet.
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And mind you, this guy was not working for any right-wing entity, let alone anything run by or associated with “those people,” and the usual suspects still don’t care. It’s very simple, really: it’s not about actual victims of abuse, injustice and oppression, who do NOT matter as such–it’s about who can be used for the benefit of the sociopolitical agenda of the left. If I had any more contempt for the usual suspects, they’d all undergo spontaneous combustion.