{"id":5397,"date":"2021-11-01T16:24:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T16:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=5397"},"modified":"2021-11-03T16:28:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:28:35","slug":"how-miami-spanish-radio-sows-hatred-disinformation-and-family-disunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/how-miami-spanish-radio-sows-hatred-disinformation-and-family-disunity\/","title":{"rendered":"How Miami Spanish Radio Sows Hatred, Disinformation, and Family Disunity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"747\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Radio-manipulation.webp?resize=747%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Radio-manipulation.webp?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Radio-manipulation.webp?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Radio-manipulation.webp?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Radio-manipulation.webp?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><figcaption>REBECCA ZISSER\/HUFFPOST; PHOTOS: GETTY<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_36c92a-ad, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_36c92a-ad[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_36c92a-ad\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_36c92a-ad mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_36c92a-ad[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_36c92a-ad\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_36c92a-ad img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_36c92a-ad[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_36c92a-ad\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h1 class=\"kt-adv-heading_36c92a-ad wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_36c92a-ad\">How Spanish-Language Radio Helped Radicalize A Generation Of Miami Abuelos<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The misinformation crisis among South Florida\u2019s Hispanic communities is warping some residents\u2019 understanding of reality \u2014 and straining family ties as a result.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/author\/lautaro-grinspan\"><\/a>Lautaro Grinspan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MIAMI<\/strong> \u2014 Virginia\u2019s mom has parroted a number of lies in the last year: The 2020 presidential election \u201cwas stolen, of course.\u201d Antifa and Black Lives Matter share responsibility for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.&nbsp;Joe Biden&nbsp;is a pedophile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Disagree? Then Virginia\u2019s mother would say you\u2019re probably a communist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Virginia, a 58-year-old Cuban immigrant who lives in Broward County, north of Miami, says that many of her mother\u2019s radical views stem from the same source: misinformation on regional Spanish-language talk radio. To her growing dismay, Virginia says her&nbsp;<em>mam\u00e1<\/em>, 79, is an avid listener, with particularly strong allegiance to right-wing commentators on Radio Mamb\u00ed, Miami\u2019s leading Cuban-exile station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cShe follows these people loyally and whatever they say is God\u2019s word,\u201d Virginia said. \u201cI think that we\u2019ve allowed the Spanish radio here to get away with murder for a long time. There\u2019s no accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Misinformation targeting Latinos comes from different sources, from chats on popular messaging platforms like WhatsApp to&nbsp;Facebook&nbsp;pages and Latin American YouTube channels. Many of these platforms translate conspiracy theories that originated in English into Spanish. But when that misinformation \u2014 from unsupported claims about election fraud to anti-vaccine propaganda and everything in between \u2014 makes the leap onto Miami Spanish-language radio (a space dominated by Cuban Americans, a key Republican constituency in Florida), it receives a mainstream stamp of approval from stations that have, in some cases, been a part of people\u2019s daily routines for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those include Radio Mamb\u00ed and Actualidad Radio \u2014 the two AM radio stations with the highest ratings in Miami,&nbsp;according to Nielsen&nbsp;\u2014 and La Poderosa. Mamb\u00ed has been on the air since 1985, and is owned by Univision, the national Spanish-language TV network headquartered in the Miami suburb of Doral. Even Radio Caracol, a fourth local station and a rare example of moderation on Miami\u2019s Spanish-language airwaves, was criticised last year when it aired a racist and anti-Semitic rant, via programming paid for by a local businessman. In response, the station banned the businessman from the airwaves and&nbsp;promptly apologised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Political analysis of this phenomenon has focused on the role misinformation could have played in helping doom&nbsp;Democrats\u2019 prospects with Latino voters in 2020, including Biden\u2019s, as well as those of South Florida congressional incumbents Donna Shalala and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell<strong>.<\/strong>&nbsp;However, more intimate fallout continues to reverberate across South Florida as family members \u2014 many of them second- or third-generation Cuban Americans \u2014 grapple with what they describe as the deepening radicalisation of older loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/616efe26210000313e6fd545.jpeg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A supporter of former President Donald Trump wearing a protective mask attends a rally outside the &quot;Latinos for Trump Roundtable&quot; event in Doral, Florida, on Sept. 25, 2020.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"\/><figcaption>A supporter of former President Donald Trump wearing a protective mask attends a rally outside the &#8220;Latinos for Trump Roundtable&#8221; event in Doral, Florida, on Sept. 25, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> &#8220;More intimate fallout continues to reverberate across South Florida as family members \u2014 many of them second- or third-generation Cuban Americans \u2014 grapple with what they describe as the deepening radicalisation of older loved ones. &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To better understand the strain that conspiracy theories are exerting on local family ties, HuffPost spoke with South Florida residents who say they\u2019ve lost older relatives to right-wing, Spanish-language misinformation. All interviewees singled out talk radio as the on-ramp to extremism, with conspiracy theories disseminated on the airwaves subsequently reinforced online and offline, through social media algorithms and in echo chambers in Miami-Dade\u2019s Cuban enclaves. When trying to push back on the misinformation, many family members found, the conversation tends to end with the same retort: \u201cCommunist!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cuban Americans\u2019 susceptibility to right-wing propaganda and red scare tactics is fuelled by a political culture that presumes loyalty to the Republican Party, which many have long viewed as the ideological antithesis to the communist government they fled. Polls show that support for the GOP is strongest among older Cubans, for whom the wounds of Fidel Castro\u2019s 1959 revolution run deep. Even after decades in the U.S., the spectre of socialism still triggers their most visceral reactions \u2014 and in South Florida, Republican politicians have been happy to do the triggering. Trump\u2019s dominance among Cubans in 2020 was the product of persistent outreach to the Cuban exile community, in which he positioned himself as a bulwark against socialist ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_00c9b2-6b, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_00c9b2-6b[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_00c9b2-6b\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_00c9b2-6b mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_00c9b2-6b[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_00c9b2-6b\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_00c9b2-6b img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_00c9b2-6b[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_00c9b2-6b\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h1 class=\"kt-adv-heading_00c9b2-6b wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_00c9b2-6b\"><strong>\u201cThis has destroyed my family.\u201d<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contributing to Spanish-language radio\u2019s persuasive power is the presence on the airwaves of high-ranking public officials, who often feature as guests in a variety of telecasts, ranging from those led by responsible journalists to others with more notorious reputations for spreading misinformation. On occasion, those same politicians take active roles in amplifying conspiracies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/61702370200000044e8d0b63.jpeg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Maria Elvira Salazar, then a Republican candidate for Florida's 27th Congressional District, talks with voters at a Miami-Dade County housing facility on Nov. 6, 2018.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"\/><figcaption>Maria Elvira Salazar, then a Republican candidate for Florida&#8217;s 27th Congressional District, talks with voters at a Miami-Dade County housing facility on Nov. 6, 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Jan. 11, during an appearance on Ninoska Perez\u2019s daily show on Radio Mamb\u00ed, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, a Republican who represents Miami-Dade and the daughter of Cuban immigrants,&nbsp;shared a false claim&nbsp;about the integrity of voting in Pennsylvania, one of the 2020 presidential election\u2019s most closely contested states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHow is it possible that in Pennsylvania there are 200,000 more votes on Election Day than there were [voters] in the electoral rolls? That\u2019s not possible,\u201d she said, referencing a repeatedly&nbsp;debunked conspiracy theory&nbsp;based on incomplete data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In March, during an interview about immigration on Actualidad Radio, Rep. Carlos Gimenez, a Cuban American and Republican representing parts of South Florida, didn\u2019t push back when hosts claimed that the Biden administration is letting in thousands of unauthorised immigrants as part of a \u201cMachiavellian plan\u201d to turn them into Democratic voters. Instead,&nbsp;as WLRN reported, he replied \u201c<em>no te lo dudo<\/em>,\u201d which translates to \u201cI don\u2019t doubt it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miami Republicans like Salazar or Gimenez \u201ccould shut it down,\u201d said Guillermo Grenier, a sociology professor at Florida International University and one of the lead investigators of the school\u2019s highly watched Cuba Poll, which tracks the opinions of the Cuban-American community in South Florida. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWhat gives this juice, what institutionalises the misinformation is that [elected officials] go on these stations and give them credibility.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both Republicans have seemingly accepted Biden as president, often pushing for the administration to&nbsp;give more support to Cuba and its people. Salazar\u2019s and Gimenez\u2019s offices did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/616dc548210000313e6fd412.jpeg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.), right, speaks as House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) listens on May 20, 2021, in Washington, D.C.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"\/><figcaption>Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.), right, speaks as House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) listens on May 20, 2021, in Washington, D.C.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sandra\u2019s parents began listening to Radio Mamb\u00ed as soon as the family emigrated from Cuba to South Florida in 1993. They never stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you go to my mom and dad\u2019s house in Hialeah, they\u2019re bound to be listening to that radio. It\u2019s on constantly,\u201d said Sandra, 52, who asked to be identified only by her first name. \u201cIf they\u2019re home, then that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing. They\u2019re bombarded 24 hours a day by those stations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said her parents, both of whom are in their mid 70s, dismiss more mainstream Spanish-language news, such as Telemundo or Univision, as \u201ccommunist.\u201d They feel much more affinity for the current of hardline anti-castrismo \u2014 narratives rooted in opposition to Castro \u2014 coursing through the airwaves of AM Spanish-language talk radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cEverything they say in those news shows are really targeted to people like my parents. They know the culture really well,\u201d Sandra said. \u201cFor my parents, it\u2019s like a drug. It does something to their brain.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a way, Sandra\u2019s experience with her parents is far from unique: Research has shown older adults are&nbsp;generally more likely&nbsp;to fall for and spread misinformation. But Grenier says something specific is at work with older Cubans and the radio, which gave many their first sense of belonging as an exile community, years before subsequent waves of immigrants refashioned Miami into the Cuban-heavy town it is today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe radio has always been a kind of town hall in Latin America,\u201d he said. \u201cThe old Cuban immigrants shaped these stations. They are their stations; it is their voice that is being heard there. They are very influenced by it. They are tied to it in a way that we can\u2019t really understand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Sandra\u2019s view, the misinformation on the radio started becoming more extreme around the time of the 2016 election, when her parents would relay information they\u2019d heard about, for instance, suspicious trips Hillary Clinton had allegedly made to Cuba in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m no fan of Hillary Clinton,\u201d Sandra said, \u201cbut I would tell her, \u2018Ma, don\u2019t you realise that those are all lies?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, she worries that conspiracy theories disseminated on the air about the 2020 election and Democrats\u2019 supposed desire to implement communism in the U.S. is warping her parents\u2019 understanding of reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/616efcd82800003c3da73a33.jpeg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A man holds a sign that reads &quot;Viva Cuba libre without communism&quot; as he shouts slogans during a rally calling for freedom in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua in Miami, Florida, on July 31, 2021.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"\/><figcaption>A man holds a sign that reads &#8220;Viva Cuba libre without communism&#8221; as he shouts slogans during a rally calling for freedom in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua in Miami, Florida, on July 31, 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s a concern others likely share: Up to&nbsp;40% of Cuban Americans in Florida&nbsp;reject the legitimacy of the electoral result that certified Biden as the winner, according to a poll by Bendixen &amp; Amandi International, a Miami-based consulting firm<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI know what it means to be listening to this stuff constantly. It\u2019s like a hypnosis session, and then after a while you\u2019re part of that cult,\u201d Sandra said. \u201cFor me, those stations have been horrible. My dad has become another person. My mom has become another person, completely. This has destroyed my family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement, Radio Mamb\u00ed\u2019s parent company, Univision, said: \u201cRadio Mamb\u00ed has a long history of providing South Florida with a forum where all opinions and open debate are welcome via the live opinion shows that make up the majority of Mamb\u00ed\u2019s program lineup. Univision takes misinformation very seriously and we strive to ensure that our audience has access to various perspectives and points of view.\u201d La Poderosa and Actualidad Radio management did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_279c97-c2, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_279c97-c2[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_279c97-c2\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_279c97-c2 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_279c97-c2[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_279c97-c2\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_279c97-c2 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_279c97-c2[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_279c97-c2\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h1 class=\"kt-adv-heading_279c97-c2 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_279c97-c2\"><strong>\u201cOur truths are opposite.\u201d<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After growing up listening to Radio Mamb\u00ed, Amore Rodriguez, 28, said she still gets the station\u2019s jingle stuck in her head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rodriguez is the first Miami-born member of her Cuban American family. Her early exposure to local Spanish-language radio programming came from her grandmother, a former professor at the University of Havana who became a political prisoner on the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s been her source of news since I\u2019ve been born,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cShe learned how to put Radio Mamb\u00ed on her phone so she wakes up and it\u2019s on, like blasting the whole time. That\u2019s all she listens to &#8230; Fox had been her source of English news but she excommunicated them after they called the election for Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rodriguez\u2019s grandmother has been listening to Spanish-language talk radio for so long \u2014 and takes the opinions of hosts and commentators so seriously \u2014 because doing so reinforces a key part of her exile identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s a level of trust that has been built there for years, and I think the best media and the best communication happens between people who trust each other. And some of these commentators are the same people, just older. I\u2019ve grown up with these people. My grandma calls in, she has their phone numbers, she feels connected to them,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cThese are the programs that have made my grandma feel at home, or that she\u2019s not alone as a Cuban exile.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rodriguez says her grandmother believes, among other lies, that the election was stolen by Biden due to fraud in places like Arizona and that Democrats run sex rings, as QAnon followers have suggested. Rodriguez\u2019s mother, who listens to less radio and consumes more digital media, holds similar views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s so shocking to me that they believe these things and there\u2019s nowhere to go because they think I\u2019m the one who is brainwashed,\u201d Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Grenier says that misinformation has long been a feature of many South Florida Spanish-language radio programs, pressure began mounting more forcefully in the wake of the Capitol riot, which was fueled by&nbsp;baseless claims about voter fraud&nbsp;and other conspiracies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/616f3262200000e84a8d0a66.jpeg?resize=640%2C422&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A woman holds a sign referencing the QAnon conspiracy as supporters of President Donald Trump gather outside the Governor's Mansion on Nov. 7, 2020, in St. Paul, Minnesota.\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\"\/><figcaption>A woman holds a sign referencing the QAnon conspiracy as supporters of President Donald Trump gather outside the Governor&#8217;s Mansion on Nov. 7, 2020, in St. Paul, Minnesota.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In January, Latino leaders from more than 20 local advocacy groups called on Spanish-language stations&nbsp;to implement more rigorous fact-checking processes&nbsp;to curb the spread of false information, warning in an open letter that \u201chateful rhetoric can have deadly consequences.\u201d Earlier this year,&nbsp;a report&nbsp;from progressive-leaning nonprofits and Latino communications agencies cataloged a week\u2019s worth of programming across two popular Spanish-language stations in Miami. Aside from allegations of widespread voter fraud and assertions that Biden would usher in communism, the report said that the stations claimed that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) committed immigration fraud and married her brother, and that \u201cChinese communists\u201d were behind the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pressure is also coming from Latino lawmakers at the federal level. In the lead-up to the 2020 election, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), then-chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and Mucarsel-Powell (who lost her reelection bid to Gimenez in 2020),&nbsp;requested an FBI investigation&nbsp;into disinformation targeting Hispanic communities. Hispanic Caucus members also mobilised in April to&nbsp;pressure the Federal Communications Commission&nbsp;to reject the sale of Radio Caracol over concerns that its new owner would pave the way for&nbsp;more far-right disinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the increased scrutiny, there remains a widely shared perception that local broadcasters don\u2019t face consequences when circulating conspiracies in Spanish, in part because of the Miami area\u2019s language idiosyncrasies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phillip M. Carter is a sociolinguist at Florida International University, where he focuses his work on Latino communities in the U.S. He said that distortions of the truth are just as likely to occur in English-language media but the difference is that, in Spanish, the problematic content \u201cflies under the radar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s nothing inherent to the Spanish language, it\u2019s about the language dynamics and the political dynamics in South Florida,\u201d he told the Miami Herald&nbsp;earlier&nbsp;this year. \u201cThere\u2019s a sense in which saying things in Spanish is not subject to critique because Spanish is constructed here as a minority language even though it is in a way the majority language.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miami-Dade, the most populous county in Florida, is&nbsp;nearly 70% Hispanic, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Almost three quarters of the county\u2019s residents speak a language other than English at home,&nbsp;a higher proportion&nbsp;than in places like Los Angeles or El Paso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although Rodriguez and her family members remain close, the relationships have frayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is no conversation that can happen because our truths are opposite. It\u2019s like we live in a parallel universe \u2026 But I have accepted that this is not them being evil. It\u2019s them being manipulated, and it\u2019s been very hard for me as their daughter and granddaughter to see that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_d0358c-66, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_d0358c-66[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_d0358c-66\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_d0358c-66 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_d0358c-66[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_d0358c-66\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_d0358c-66 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_d0358c-66[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_d0358c-66\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h1 class=\"kt-adv-heading_d0358c-66 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_d0358c-66\"><strong>Paranoia<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the most painful effects of the disinformation deluge has been seeing loved ones become viscerally upset by alarmist statements about the Democratic Party\u2019s supposed drive to bring communism to the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Misleading rhetoric around communism and socialism isn\u2019t limited to Spanish-language media, of course. Republicans nationwide have long accused even the most centrist Democrats of embracing socialism, popularising the notion that Democrats want to make the U.S. into a Venezuelan-style socialist government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI get angry looking back and thinking about it &#8230; These are people who made it to their 90s and made it through revolution. It just seems abusive for them to be fed a bunch of lies to worry about and to pull on the strings of all the things that they are sensitive to, the things that have hurt them in the past.\u201d- Armando Garcia, whose Cuban grandfather died in 2020<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But for first-generation Cuban exiles in Miami, speaking about communism as if it were an ascendant force in the U.S. can bring up past trauma related to their experiences on the island, risking their mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think my grandma has had the worst anxiety that she\u2019s ever had since she\u2019s been here, because she\u2019s never felt like it\u2019s so close to happening again,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201dShe fought so hard and lost everything to get away from communism to come to the land of democracy and all of this misinformation makes you feel like it\u2019s at the tip of your doorstep again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo I think my family has almost started to relive their trauma. The fear tactic has been so brilliantly done &#8230; My grandma feels like she is fighting for her life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Armando Garcia, 37, can relate. His late grandfather, once a fisherman in Cuba, was jailed by the Castro regime after he was caught trying to leave the island after the revolution. In his final years, according to Garcia, he was increasingly concerned about undercover communist operations in the U.S., a fear stoked in part by Spanish-language radio in Miami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI would try to not go into these subjects but he couldn\u2019t help himself. He would get just very emotionally agitated. It\u2019s like he stopped being the grandfather that I grew up with,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cAnd he still showed me that but in those last few visits before he passed away, he was increasingly more in this world of paranoia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garcia\u2019s grandfather died in early 2020. He was in his mid-90s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI get angry looking back and thinking about it \u2026 These are people who made it to their 90s and made it through revolution. It just seems abusive for them to be fed a bunch of lies to worry about and to pull on the strings of all the things that they are sensitive to, the things that have hurt them in the past,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cAt those final moments I had with him, if they weren\u2019t taken up by him obsessing over these political things &#8230; What could we have talked about instead? That\u2019s something I wonder about. It\u2019s just kind of a cruel thing to do to people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Grenier, the obsession described by Garcia could be indicative of a greater vulnerability immigrants have to misinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you don\u2019t think Biden is a legitimate president, then everything is up for grabs. This entire country that you supposedly came to for its democratic institutions it\u2019s not what you thought it was,\u201d he told HuffPost. \u201cSo I can imagine that it creates a lot of existential [crises] for a lot of people, probably more so in South Florida than other parts of the U.S. Among immigrant populations that buy into this, the anguish must be much greater.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s not just invocations of communism that can deeply unsettle talk radio listeners. In the wake of George Floyd\u2019s murder in May 2020, coverage of Black Lives Matter demonstrations provoked similar anxieties, with some Spanish-language media personalities&nbsp;repeatedly insinuating&nbsp;that those who protest violence are untrustworthy or dangerous. Those included radio host Carines Moncada, who made&nbsp;national news&nbsp;in October 2020 when she claimed on Actualidad Radio that a co-founder of Black Lives Matter practiced&nbsp;<em>\u201cbrujer\u00eda,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;or witchcraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo you ask yourself, \u2018Why are they destructive?\u2019\u201d Moncada said, referring to protesters. \u201cBecause they are vibrating with the devil. They are vibrating with negativity. They are vibrating with the dark.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last summer, when Sandra\u2019s parents drove to visit her in Jupiter, her mother was \u201cin a terrible fright.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/616f24c62400002d42507cff.jpeg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A woman is draped with a cloth reading Black Lives Matter during a protest over the murder of George Floyd on June 2, 2020, in Miami.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"\/><figcaption>A woman is draped with a cloth reading Black Lives Matter during a protest over the murder of George Floyd on June 2, 2020, in Miami.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was a lot of fear and terror. My mom would say, \u2018We have to leave early because if we are on the highway and [protesters] block the highway they might kill us. Those people are evil,\u2019\u201d Sandra said. \u201cIt was an extreme fear.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garcia says his last remaining grandparent, his&nbsp;<em>abuela<\/em>&nbsp;on his mother\u2019s side, had never been very political. But to his surprise, in recent visits, she has started bringing up Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was something about how these thugs are taking over the streets. I was like, \u2018<em>Desde cuando tu le pones atenci\u00f3n a todas estas cosas?&nbsp;<\/em>Since when do you pay attention to these things?\u2019 &#8230; I hadn\u2019t realised that this stuff was coming from Spanish-language media,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s causing her stress. Like, \u2018Oh, what\u2019s happening to this country?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Disingenuous narratives about Black Lives Matter protests \u2014 which are very&nbsp;rarely violent&nbsp;\u2014 have remained a frequent feature on the airwaves. In the wake of the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol perpetrated by Trump supporters, hosts across a range of stations, including&nbsp;<strong>Radio Mamb\u00ed<\/strong>,<strong> Actualidad Radio<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>La Poderosa<\/strong>, gave credence to the nation that Black Lives Matter and \u201cAntifa\u201d shared responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the spring, following the conclusion Derek Chauvin\u2019s trial, Poderosa host Lucy Pereda and frequent guest Julio Shiling, a right-wing commentator, said that \u201cthreats from Black Lives Matter\u201d and \u201cBlack Lives Matter militias\u201d pressured the jury into convicting the former Minneapolis Police officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat ruled in that trial was mob justice, the terror of the streets,\u201d Shiling said. He added that&nbsp;critical race theory&nbsp;is part of a Biden administration agenda to advocate for \u201cBlack supremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_36fee9-10, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_36fee9-10[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_36fee9-10\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_36fee9-10 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_36fee9-10[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_36fee9-10\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_36fee9-10 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_36fee9-10[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_36fee9-10\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h1 class=\"kt-adv-heading_36fee9-10 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_36fee9-10\"><strong>Fraying Families<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For these Floridians, their wish isn\u2019t to get their parents or grandparents to think like them. After all, their core political beliefs are already fairly similar. Sandra calls herself one of the \u201cmost anti-communist people out there,\u201d and is proud of the anti-Castro activism that got her kicked out of university back in Cuba. Virginia was a lifelong Republican until she left the party last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rodriguez is openly liberal \u2014 she is one of the co-founders of Cubanos Pa\u2019lante, an alliance of progressive Cuban Americans \u2014 but said she fully shares her conservative grandmother\u2019s fervor for freedom, noting she carries \u201cthe pain of the Cuban story in my soul.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fault line lies in the different generations\u2019 ability to determine what\u2019s true and what\u2019s false, what\u2019s fact and what\u2019s conspiracy. The younger crop wants to help their older relatives, but despite their empathy, they\u2019ve been unable to find a reliable strategy to debunk the misinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Sandra tries to fact-check some of her parents\u2019 conspiracy theories in a direct manner, \u201cThey start yelling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy dad yells. My mom immediately says, \u2018<em>No me hables<\/em>. Don\u2019t talk to me.\u2019 She gets aggressive,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019re a lost cause. And they probably see me as a lost cause too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Virginia\u2019s methods are more subtle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/616f2d94200000e84a8d0a61.jpeg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She has access to her mother\u2019s Facebook account and logs in \u201clike a parent\u201d to \u201cunfollow some of her crazy friends\u201d and get her out of conspiracy-minded groups. Facebook groups are private pages for users with similar interests \u2014 and a&nbsp;big source of misinformation&nbsp;on the platform, especially for users who interact with content in foreign languages. According to the&nbsp;Wall Street Journal\u2019s Facebook Files series, only 13% of the company\u2019s work addressing misinformation in 2020 dealt with content outside the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When her mom visits her home, Virginia also turns on the TV and sets it to a mainstream news station, which she leaves playing in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ll have the news on and I\u2019ll tell her, \u2018See, mom, this is what they are saying here,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t want to hear it. She totally shuts down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for Rodriguez, while she previously felt a \u201cresponsibility to fact-check, to bring awareness, to bring truth,\u201d she says she\u2019s lost some of her drive because \u201cright now everything is a lie,\u201d and trying to explain the inaccuracy of something her grandmother heard on the radio very rarely ends well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cShe told me, \u2018I\u2019ve never been more disappointed in you. I can\u2019t believe you think I\u2019m a liar.\u2019 And I told her, \u2018I don\u2019t think you\u2019re a liar. I think you\u2019re being manipulated.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A growing cause of consternation for Rodriguez, especially as&nbsp;hospitalizations due to COVID-19 surged in Florida&nbsp;over the summer, is that&nbsp;misinformation about vaccines&nbsp;has kept many of her relatives from getting the shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy grandma says she has heard some doctors on the radio talk about how the vaccine wasn\u2019t safe,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m the only vaccinated person in my family \u2026 They still think there\u2019s a chip.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Rodriguez\u2019s view, the status quo could only improve if the people her grandmother trusts on Spanish-language radio actually speak the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Virginia doesn\u2019t believe that\u2019s likely to happen in the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have no faith whatsoever,\u201d she said. \u201cAs long as I can remember, I haven\u2019t had faith in Spanish radio.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Huffpost<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Spanish-Language Radio Helped Radicalize A Generation Of Miami Abuelos The misinformation crisis among South Florida\u2019s Hispanic communities is warping some residents\u2019 understanding of reality<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/how-miami-spanish-radio-sows-hatred-disinformation-and-family-disunity\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-us-anti-cuba-disinformation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6677,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cuba-one-year-after-7-11\/","url_meta":{"origin":5397,"position":0},"title":"Cuba: One Year after 7\/11","author":"Editorial Team","date":"July 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on July 7, 2022 protesting Meta-Facebook On July 11, it will be one year since the riots in Cuba that made headlines around the world. 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