On July 12, 2021 the London Guardian newspaper published a sensational decontextualized article on the events on Cuba. It claimed that “thousands took to the streets in cities throughout the island, demonstrating against food shortages, high prices and communist rule.”

As visual evidence of the “thousands” of Cubans demonstrating in Havana, it published the photo above from the Associated Press, a monopoly U.S. news agency.

The newspaper admitted later in the day in a postscript at the end of the article, “This article was amended on 12 July 2021. The original agency caption on the image of people on the Máximo Gómez monument incorrectly described them as anti-government protesters. They were actually supporters of the government.” Thousands had taken to the streets demonstrating support for revolutionary Cuba.

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