The raising of the US flag at the newly opened American embassy in Havana is an important story, but I can’t help finding much of the US media coverage surrounding the event to be repetitive, boring and frivolous.
How many more cheerful stories about 1950s Chevro-lets on the streets of Havana, or about formerly US-owned Cuban casinos, or about the Cubans’ ingenuity to repair decades old US-made refrigerators will we have to endure on the occasion of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to preside over the flag-raising ceremony of the US Embassy in Havana?
True, nostalgia sells, and many people love these stories, but there is a big dose of hypocrisy surrounding this frivolous view of today’s Cuba.
It obscures the fact that Cuba remains one of the world’s closest dictatorships, and that most news organizations try not to be too harsh on the Cuban regime because they don’t want to be denied Cuban entry visas for their
