One of the decisive battles of these times — marked by turbulence and threats derived from imperialist action and its aspiration for lost conquest and hegemony — is, without a doubt, the battle being waged in the communications sphere. Public opinion lives — even if it tries to ignore it — under the influence of whatever is disseminated in cyberspace, that giant of subjectivities that mixes truth and falsehood in its belly while incessantly belching the haze of confusion.

The news event is a constant victim of the intentions of those who own the powerful machinery that determines what is reported and how. A clear example of this reality points to the news treatment that Cuba currently receives on social networks.

While the indomitable will of the Cuban people to move forward, their heroic resistance, and their determination to face the barbaric blockade and the threat of war from the United States are evident realities that awaken the admiration of honest people everywhere, falsehood spreads its mantle in an attempt to conceal them. Deceptive profiles mounted on the supports of manipulation seek to sow doubt about the causes of the crisis that burdens Cuban society today.

It is a constant to come across statements such as: "Cuba is a failed state" ; "the conduct of the Cuban 'regime' puts the security of the United States at risk" ; "the incapacity and corrupt behavior of Cuban leaders are the causes of shortages, blackouts, increased criminal activity, lack of medicines, and inflation" ; "the majority of Cubans are against the 'regime' and want U.S. military intervention."

In the height of cynicism, it is asserted that the blockade is "a lie to hide the incapacity of the socialist system" ; and now, as a peculiar ploy to justify a potential military aggression, the country is accused of allegedly acquiring drones "to attack" the empire's illegal base in Guantánamo — a crude way of finding justifications for threats of war, in addition to trying to discredit the legitimate right of an aggrieved country to defend itself.

But despite all that is being falsified amid this permanent onslaught of unreal information, the irreducible Cuba works and creates day by day, seeks solutions so that light increasingly shines through the shadows of the crisis, even without receiving a drop of longed-for oil, and with admirable strength and resilience puts the ingenuity and creativity of its people into the effort to move forward.

Hiding the validity and humanist scope of the work materialized during sixty-seven years of revolutionary construction has proven impossible. The majority of the population flooded squares and streets this past May Day alongside their leaders and massively proclaimed with their signatures the will for peace of this people. In all latitudes, the example of justice, solidarity, and sovereignty that Cuba represents is recognized.

Standing before the enemy with head held high, facing the challenge of the threat of aggression, resisting the longest and cruelest economic, commercial, and financial blockade in history, and proclaiming — even amid the greatest adversities — the determination to exist as a sovereign nation at any cost: these are insurmountable strengths before the siege of lies. Cuba is not alone.