Havana, June 5 (Prensa Latina) President Miguel Díaz-Canel asserted today that enemies of the Revolution are attempting to manipulate the opinions of university students regarding recent measures taken by Etecsa, with the goal of promoting the subversion of public order in Cuba.
During the podcast Desde la Presidencia, the head of state commented that the opinions of students at the island’s universities refer solely to their disapproval of the redesign of the services of the Telecommunications Company SA (Etecsa).
He also explained that higher education students respectfully expressed their concerns about the new mobile internet rates through organizations such as the University Student Federation and the Union of Young Communists.
He also considered that the attempt to distort student demands and destabilize the country contrasts with the meetings between company executives and the nation’s university community.
In his opinion, the criticism unleashed in the country’s higher education institutions did not arise spontaneously, but rather due precisely to manipulation on digital platforms or communication strategies designed to discredit the Revolution.
There is a campaign on social media with the clear objective of discrediting the Revolution, he reiterated, and denounced that videos and photos were manipulated to depict supposed opposition demonstrations, in order to create a rift between young people and the government.
In his address to the Presidency, the president proposed a critical approach to the measures announced by the company to address its serious financial problems, which threaten to cause a collapse of the Cuban telecommunications system.
Díaz-Canel was joined by Deputy Minister of Communications Ernesto Rodríguez and Etecsa President Tania Velázquez, who analyzed the causes and consequences of the entity’s lack of liquidity.
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