The Executive Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in Havana and the Provincial Assembly of the Popular Power recognized the outstanding role of journalists and media in the recovery and reconstruction phases of the municipalities affected by the tornado of the 27th. January.

In the act of the capital for the Day of the Cuban Press Luis Antonio Torres Iríbar, first secretary of the PCC in the territory, and Tatiana Viera Hernández, vice president of the local government, handed out diplomas to both information professionals and provincial and national bodies , for contributing to fight those battles with the people and their leaders.

After the passage of the tornado by Regla, Guanabacoa, Diez de Octubre, San Miguel del Padrón and La Habana del Este, from the same night of January 27 and afterwards in the recovery and reconstruction periods, the journalists were reporters of all the channels , broadcasters and digital media, said Ricardo Gómez, one of the honorees.

Also of the intense tours with the direction of the Party and the government in the province, and with President Miguel Díaz Canel, we have witnessed the deed of a people that erects a more slender and attractive Havana, half a millennium of its foundation, the speaker said, one of the first representatives of the press to report that fact within minutes of being produced.

In this regard, to intervene in the act, Iribar noted that one of the lessons that left the battle for the early recovery of the affected areas has been the necessary unity of the people, trust in its leaders to accompany him in such difficult times to give encouragement and hope that the houses would be raised again, as has happened.

But if there is a moment when that unit has to grow, it is this, in order to prevent and prevent an imperialist aggression, he said, arguing with facts how threatened the Cuban Revolution is by the administration of Donald Trump and the US extreme right, with the activation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act.

The first secretary of the Party in Havana called on journalists to continue promoting the close link between the people and their leaders, and the need not to neglect the defense as a way to preserve peace, while also inviting them to motivate the people the economic battle, in particular the production of food.

In the act, journalist Bárbara Doval received La Giraldilla de La Habana, awarded by the Provincial Assembly of People's Power, given her outstanding work in the search for solutions to problems of the population, as happens with the Free Access space of the Canal Habana , of which is its scriptwriter and conductor.

Likewise, Ricardo Ronquillo, national president of the Union of Journalists of Cuba, presented the Felix Elmusa distinction to María Elena Diosdado, Idania Díaz and Rosa Dimas, all of the Tribuna newspaper in Havana, and Caridad Rosabal and Reynaldo Hernández, of the COCO station, while a group of young people received the card as new members of the UPEC.

In the words of summary Eduardo Sáenz, head of the Ideological Department of the Provincial Committee of the Party, recalled statements by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro when he said that the main mission of the Cuban press is to defend the Revolution, and in this sense "a journalist is in First, a fighter of ideas committed to his time. "

Source: Fidel Rendón Matienzo / ACN
Edition: Digital Writing Havana 500 / MSC