The political bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) also moved chips in ‘Rebelde Youth’, where it amounted to director Yuniel Labacena Romero.
Miami, United States. – The political bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) promoted Yerky Sánchez Cuellar as newspaper director Granma and appointed Yuniel Labacena Romero in front of Rebel youthaccording to a note from your own Granma Posted on Wednesday.
The announcement does not mention the dismissal of Yailín Orta Rivera, which Cubanet reported in May 2024 and that would have happened in silence two months before.
Sánchez Cuellar, 41, is a member of the Central Committee of the PCC, deputy to the National Assembly of Popular Power and member of the State Council. Graduate of Journalism in 2007, he worked as an editor-portoor in the provincial newspaper of Villa Clara, Vanguarddirected the magazine Alma mater And, since 2014, he developed his work in Rebel youthwhere he was head of department, editorial deputy director and finally director.
Sánchez Cuéllar was “discovered” by Fidel Castro Ruz himself during the so -called “battle of ideas” for the return of the child Elián González Brotons. The then teenager won a celebrity within the regime for dedicate poems to the Cuban dictatoras well as the nickname of “Deputy Rimador” after reaching the National Assembly of Popular Power.
In addition, the Political Bureau agreed to promote Labacena Romero, 36 and a member of the National Committee of the Union of Young Communists, who graduated in 2014 and has been an editor-porter, head of national information and editorial deputy director in Rebel youth.
The relay formalizes, without official explanations, an exit that Cubanet He documented more than a year earlier. In his May 2024 report, this media reported that Orta Rivera, also a member of the Central Committee and deputy to the National Assembly, had been dismissed from his position and that the position had been provisionally occupied by the journalist Dilbert Reyes Rodríguez, who served as deputy director of the newspaper.
According to employees cited by Cubanetafter the exit of Orta Rivera, “a better climate.” “Since he entered [como directora] A good part of the journalists left and today there are barely reporters or specialists unlike previous years, ”added the source, more than a year ago.
During a visit to the drafting of Granma in April 2024, ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel called to transform the official PCC body to win readers. “We have to aspire to be the newspaper that is most read in Cuba, as a multim average. That young people get closer to Granmaand for that you have to provide it with a touch of originality, you have to innovate in Granma”He said then.
The history of changes in the direction of the Official Gazette also records the dismissal of Pelayo Terry in November 2017, “for ‘errors made in the fulfillment of their responsibilities’”, according to a note of the PCC of that time.
Orta Rivera replaced Terry Cuervo in 2017, after an ascending trajectory in Rebel youthwhere she was the editor, deputy director and director, until her arrival in Granma.
