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Juventud Rebelde, daily newspaper of Cuba's young communists. This is a list of newspapers in Cuba.Although the Cuban media is controlled by the Cuban People through the Cuban State apparatus, the national newspapers of Cuba are not directly published by the state, they are instead published by various Cuban political organizations with official approval.
Granma is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.It was formed in 1965 by the merger of two previous papers, Revolución (from Spanish: "Revolution") and Hoy ("Today"). [1]
Prensa Latina was founded at the initiative of Ernesto Che Guevara. The founder and first manager was Argentinian journalist Jorge Ricardo Masetti . [ 2 ] On Masetti's instructions, the first journalists were recruited by March 1959, when the service went into operation. [ 1 ]
Prensa Libre, a daily publication in Havana, was the largest daily newspaper in Cuba. [1] The newspaper was occupied and confiscated on May 16, 1960, by the Cuban government. [2] Co-editors Ulises Carbó and Humberto Medrano, as well as Sergio Carbó, went into exile after the Prensa Libre was seized.
The newspaper has published articles by journalists demonstrating a stance against reggaetón.The paper claims that "something must be done" about the music style that has become popular among youth, as artists in the genre commonly glorify "luxury, lust, vice" and the use of drugs and alcohol. [2]
On 17 March 2024, protests began in Cuba, [2] primarily in Santiago de Cuba, the country's second largest city, in protest of food shortages and power outages. [3] [4]The country experienced what was described as the worst living crisis since the early 1990s. [5]
When Prensa Libre wrote critically about the suppression of Diario de la Marina and the imminent loss of freedom of the press in Cuba, it too was seized by the government. Revolutionary mobs, incited by the frenzy of the moment, called for the execution of all the editors who opposed Castro and his Revolution.
Carlos Alberto Montaner Suris (3 April 1943 – 29 June 2023) was an exiled Cuban author and journalist known for his criticism of Fidel Castro and the Cuban government. He was published widely in Latin American newspapers, and produced fiction and non-fiction books about Latin America.