Cuba's New Leader

Some Subtle Changes Already!!

     This interesting May 17-2018 photo reflects both monumental and subtle changes on the still-evolving island of Cuba. It shows the island's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel being warmly greeted by Cubans, the vast majority of whom genuinely like and support the former Education Minister's presidency. That's monumental. One of the early subtle changes on the island in the nascent Diaz-Canel era reflects his emphasis on stressing the importance of the Cuban media. He says, "Across the island our universities have contributed excellent journalists that serve the island. Our people are too smart and too well educated to be misled or lied to. Our media, both in print and in broadcasting, will be boosted to better inform our people and others with the truth, be it good or bad, about Cuba."

    This May 17th photo shows Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel getting support from everyday Cubans. The mainstream U. S. media -- and, of course, the most vicious and well-funded anti-Cuban blogs -- routinely claim that the Cubans are forced to fawn over their new leader. The primary people off the island spreading such distortions are the Cubans and their sycophants in the U. S. Congress who work so hard to keep Americans from visiting the island where they could judge it for themselves.

     In mid-May of 2018 in Diaz-Canel's Cuba a brand-new television station, Dominio Cuba, has debuted. Its first broadcasts, as shown above, featured reports and interviews conducted by Cuba's superstar broadcast journalist Cristina Escobar in Geneva, Switzerland. This one was on May 17th.

  This photo shows Cristina Escobar conducting an interview this week for Dominio Cuba on a street in Geneva, Switzerland. The report not only went back to Cuba but Dominio Cuba is designed to have a strong digital presence on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter. 
   Cristina Escobar, considered by many to be the best Spanish-speaking and English-speaking broadcast journalist in the Western Hemisphere, is a huge supporter of President Diaz-Canel and, with her mentor Rosa Miriam Elizaldo, is also a major media official on the island as well as a special on-air talent.

  From Switzerland this week, Cristina Escobar explained what Cuba's highly ambitious new television channel, Dominio Cuba, is all about: "We live in a world where truth is built by the media, and those with the most power respond to groups that want to dominate political narratives. We seek to make visible the reality of different countries, like ours."

    The Cristina Escobar reporting this week from Geneva in both Spanish and English is so well-respected as a broadcast journalist that, during the Obama era in the U. S., she made history {above} by being the only Cuban journalist to ever ask questions at a White House news conference. After making such an impression in Washington and elsewhere, Escobar made further headlines with comments such as: "Cuba's fate is up to Cubans on the island, not Cubans in Miami and Washington," and, "Cuban journalists have more freedom to tell the truth about the U. S. than U. S. journalists have to tell the truth about Cuba." Now on Cuban television and also on leading Internet forums, Cristina Escobar has a new vehicle, Dominio Cuba, to try to tell Revolutionary Cuba's still-evolving story.

     It is clear that Cuba's new President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, has given the island's media leader, Rosa Miriam Elizaldo, the wherewithal to expand Cuba's image via Rosa's ambitious Dominio Cuba channel. Its Internet exposure has already provided dividends. And Rosa expertly emphasizes the island's talented array of young journalists, especially Cristina Escobar. Recently, Rosa has supervised Cristina and a strong technical crew on live reports from Lima, Peru, and Geneva, Switzerland.

The thoughtful Cristina Escobar.

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