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00:00What are your thoughts on the Cuban journalist movement?
00:07We as journalists, who are educated and want to continue doing journalism,
00:11once we leave Cuba, of course we want to continue doing that,
00:15but we face very different conditions.
00:19We are in exile, we have more connection facilities,
00:24we are no longer repressed,
00:28But we also face challenges from a material point of view,
00:32from the point of view of insertion in the new society.
00:35First, the precariousness in which we journalists in Cuba are subjected
00:38is reflected when we get to the third century.
00:40We arrive without any kind of purchasing power or without any economic protection.
00:46And that influences because in the world you don't exchange,
00:50you buy things to be able to live.
00:52For me it was very hard, stressful and painful.
00:57Because I've never really had,
01:02nor do I have, nor will I be afraid to write and face the dictatorship.
01:07You need a lot of support from an economic point of view,
01:10from many points of view,
01:12to be able to continue your job as a journalist.
01:14You are no longer on the ground,
01:16and now everything has to be done through WhatsApp,
01:18through the phone,
01:20through the sources that remain in Cuba,
01:23and everything becomes much more difficult.
01:24When we get to the century, there is still this kind of precariousness
01:28for the people who try to be journalists.
01:31First, because the Cuban media has very little access to the best sources.
01:34And second, because there is a kind of decantation
01:37that also happens through a filter of struggles
01:39that I have been dragging from Cuba,
01:40such as the issue of anti-racism.
01:42The so-called freedom conceived in the Cuban constitution
01:46in its articles 54 and 56
01:49allows you to speak of what you feel like,
01:53less what bothers the dictatorship.
01:56You face all kinds of threats, repressions,
01:59you threaten your life, the prison, and everything.
02:02Of course, many of us are not willing to do that,
02:06because the most important thing for a journalist
02:08is to report, it is the news.
02:10When you start to see, to make a panorama
02:12of the journalists who are doing the same Cuban journalism,
02:16you would not be able to mention any Afro-descendant,
02:20or at least someone who is recognized as an Afro-descendant.
02:22You move away from your family, you move away from your land,
02:26you face a lot of economic challenges,
02:32challenges of a new society, a new language.
02:36And many of the journalists who have decided to emigrate
02:40have not been able to continue doing journalism.
02:42The pain of the prison is the hardest,
02:44the most devastating of the pains,
02:46the one that kills intelligence and desecrates the soul,
02:50leaving in them traces that will never be erased.
02:56The truth will always continue its march,
02:59without anyone or anyone being able to stop it,
03:03destroy it or cover it up.
03:05We can be sure of that.
03:20We can be sure of that.