HAVANA TIMES — The Cuban government has withdrawn a “blacklist” from state-run radio stations, one which included Celia Cruz, Gloria Estefan, Bebo Valdes and another fifty artists who were or are critical of the island’s political system, reported the Cubaencuentro website.
The Cuban government has never confirmed the existence of such a list, but radio stations themselves admitted to BBC television that at least 50 performers opposed to the revolution were banned, with those same stations now having confirmed an end to the ban.
According Cubaencuentro, one of its sources explained that the authorities argue that the list served its “purpose” and framed its elimination as being within the “openness to the world” that the government is now seeking to promote.
Notwithstanding, the ending of the ban doesn’t imply the immediate inclusion of those who were censored, since in many cases the stations simply don’t have their recordings, the report said.
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