Talk:Kelly Keiderling

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Wikipedians, I've noticed that my biography (I am "Kelly Keiderling") has a paragraph with mistaken information. It's the paragraph that starts with "In 2004, as Chief of the Office of Press and Culture in the Cuban US Interests Section, she led and trained youth university leaders..." The entire paragraph is incorrect; it mischaracterizes my work as public affairs officer at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, Cuba. Could you help me edit the entry on me, and include the following correct information? (it's simply my job description)

"From 2003 to 2005, she worked as public affairs officer at the U.S. Interests Section, which was the U.S. government's diplomatic representation in Cuba before the U.S. government formally established a full embassy in Havana in July 2015. While she worked in Cuba, Kelly Keiderling brought information from the outside world to Cubans.  She helped train Cuban journalists in professional journalism, distributed books to independent librarians, connected Cuban pro-democracy activists to international audiences, and generally supported the efforts of Cubans to receive information from the outside world and to express their opinions to the international community."

By the way, since my Foreign Service assignment to Cuba, the Cuban government has tried to portray my Foreign Service work as nefarious. Cuban government officials have regularly accused me of being a U.S. spy, somehow acting to subvert Cuban sovereignty. The Venezuelan government has similarly sought to color me as a nefarious actor. This is a decades-old effort to discredit, undermine and besmirch the diplomatic work of U.S. government officials, acquired from the Soviet Union and other communist countries and put to use in Cuba. The Cuban government even published a book (around 2009?) called "Enemigos," in which I and others feature as "enemies of the Cuban state." This is a classic propaganda and disinformation campaign (we used to call it "agitprop" when referring to the Soviet Union) that seeks to sow doubt about me, my integrity, and my professionalism among an international audience. Is there any way I can find out who wrote that paragraph about my time in Cuba? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.191.241.245 (talk) 17:23, 10 February 2021 (UTC)