MADRID, Spain.- The Editor-in-Chief of Alma materYoandry Ávila Guerra, left the university magazine after the dismissal of its director, Armando Franco Senén, by the National Bureau of the Union of Young Communists of Cuba.
Ávila Guerra, a graduate of Heritage Management and Preservation, at the San Gerónimo University College in Havana, made public through Facebook change of employment status.
Like the news of the dismissal of Franco Senén, Ávila Guerra’s publication has provoked numerous comments of support and discontent with the arbitrary decisions of the regime.
“Sometimes you have to receive blows like these, the ones that really shake, to understand where we stand and what really exists in our country: a dictatorship that uses the press only in its favor. It is a story that repeats itself and repeats itself, that consumes and extinguishes, that crushes and disappears those who dare to cross the line. But don’t get tired. Your talent is above everything”, said the journalist from Telemundo 51Alexis Boentes Arias.
Yoandry Ávila Guerra has also been a reporter for the digital site Cubajournalists and has collaborated with media such as The Bearded Cayman, We are Young Y Cubadebate.
Although the authorities did not clarify the reasons for the dismissal of Armando Franco Senén, since he began directing Alma mater The magazine addressed issues that the Cuban government usually hides.
interviewed by Cuban JournalFranco Senén did not give details of his dismissal.
“It is a decision of the organization (the Union of Young Communists) to which he belongs. Alma mater. Other than that, I don’t have much else to talk about. You will understand that there is the heat of the moment and there is an open process around that. We are in the delivery and such, at this time I can not tell you anything else, “she said.
Just as he stressed that the possibility of appealing the decision “is not an option that he is evaluating.”
After the dismissal of Franco Senén, the renowned journalist Joaquín Borges Triana stated: “In the 36 years that I have been a journalism graduate, I have been a witness again and again to stories like the one that now motivates multiple comments on the networks. Let’s suppose that yes, that Armandito made a mistake in something and for those mistakes he has to be released. In such a case, this corroborates that in the exercise of journalism in a society like Cuba’s, there is no margin for error. A doctor can make a mistake and someone can die because of him, but it may not come to light. In journalism this is not the case. To this assumption we must add that the great enemy of a project like the one that is being built in this country is not the blockade or capitalism, but reality itself.”
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