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(Stenographic Versions – State Council)
Well, to start fulfilling congressional mandates and to support Ronquillo and the new leadership, before December, I'm on Twitter (Applause and exclamations) [19659002] the leadership of the party, state and government present here
Dear National Journalism Awards
Dear Journalists:
After our most recent tours of several provinces and the days of this congress, the two scenarios this allows us to more intimately share experiences and meditations with the national press, I understand better why Fidel once asked them to consider him as one of you.
Cuban journalists have the undeniable merit of having supported the voice of the nation in the most adverse circumstances and times, with admirable loyalty, a high sense of responsibility, talent, l & # 39; intelligence and contagious enthusiasm g There are always interesting proposals
We expected no less that those who pride themselves on belonging to an ennobled guild of its origins by intellectuals the size of José Martí, Fidel Castro and the most brilliant leaders of the Revolution, 1868 to today
Today, after long and tedious years under the simultaneous siege of the most serious material deficiencies and Unacceptable misunderstandings of some of our own sources, it is legitimate to recognize that most of you have had to struggle very hard. to exercise worthily a burden that requires not only talent and efforts, but also very high ideals to reject, amid great economic sacrifices, the relatively "generous" payment offers that the lucrative campaign industry against Cuba, opportunistic and cynical, puts at the disposal of those who have a price or naively believe in the false libertarian speech of apologia We could say that the media landscape has never been so stimulating and stimulating, but we would be unfair to the story of a revolution that has not known a truce in its strenuous effort to conquer all justice and that from the first day As recalls the sentence of Fidel who chaired the Congress, has understood the central role of journalism in the defense of the besieged fortress
How to imagine without the numerous clandestine press and guerrilla or without Radio Rebelde the fast advance of the army? Rebel? What would have happened to the nascent revolution without the brilliant "Operation Truth"? Has the media war stolen the name of the apostle, broadcasting from a plane, not overwhelmed with technologies and new journalistic projects that have revolutionized radio and television at the same time? time and still today?
[19659002] With the understanding that your truth needs journalism, Cuba has been able to build a public media system whose main strength is you, the journalists, more effective while being more authentic, original and creative to tell the truth to the world and the world "We need them."
What we can say now is that during the ICT revolution, the era of the Internet and the tyranny of companies engaged in communication business, we are confronted with More and more challenges in our underdeveloped economy, the country has not submitted the rules of its opponent and has not surrendered sovereignty in the name of fast modernity.
And no matter how many attempts are made to bring us back to the past of sensationalism and the private press under new masks, neither the Cuban public media nor its journalists are for sale.
I do not accuse unfairly. I emphasize the open warfare that is waged against us by the fact that, under the umbrella of better moments in ever-fragile relations with the powerful neighbor who despises us, we have escalated into the attack of what unites us – the Party – and he defends us – our press – continually disqualifying the two and trying to break up and separate what comes from the same root and grows in the same trunk.
Alluding to the type of mission that these media attempt to follow with a surprising articulation that denies their supposed freedom, Mr. H. Lagarde, drew with irony but without euphemisms, the new clbad of leaders who sells us, from of these spaces. I recommend the complete reading of "The New Revolutionaries" which Lagarde states:
"… The new revolutionaries swear and perjury that they are not employees of the official thought, but they accept scholarships in US universities where they receive journalism courses in the Netherlands, where they are sure to learn how to defend socialism in Cuba.We must badume that these courses and scholarships are free.
"The new revolutionaries call for disobedience when union is most needed. For them, as experts in politics, nothing has to do with Cuba the "judicial" persecution of left-wing leaders in Latin America, the attempts of coups d'etat and invasions in Venezuela and the United States. Nicaragua
"The new revolutionaries are democratic and Respectful of contrary opinions, that is why those who do not share their positions are: submissive, lambs, obedient, mediocre, Taliban, Khmer Rouge, Stalinist, pro-government and repressive
"The main mission of the new revolutionaries is therefore:"
Lagarde's text is a little longer, but these ideas are sufficient, because they define the most urgent challenge of that time in this part of the world. world. 19659002] I know that the theoretical documents and the debates of the Congress, without ignoring, forgetting or rejecting internal emergencies, which are finally strategic, have underlined the centrality of this battle which will never cease, between the logic of capital, selfish and exclusive, and our socialist and Martian logic, faithful, supportive and generous.
Because, even if they sell us another version of the facts, the stubborn reality is too much in sight, pbading the painful bill to those who believed that the wolf was a sheep.
This is or is not, since the time of Shakespeare.
Of course, this Congress was much more than this central debate and we are happy. First of all, we have reached this tenth edition with Social Communication Policy, a document that defines, finally, as a citizen's right and as a public good, access to information, communication and knowledge; this gives the highest authority to the press; who cuts the company and establishes obligations in this direction for the institutions, the organizations, the authorities; who defends the values and symbols of the nation and commands respect for the diversity that we are. It declares communication as a strategic resource of state and government management and defines the public character of broadcasting and communication services and recognizes only two types of media ownership: l & # 39; State and social media. [19659002] The UPEC and the Faculty of Communication of the University of Havana actively participated in the preparation of the policy and its adaptation and adaptation to the present time. Virtually the entire guild participated in fundamental discussions for its subsequent application. There is enthusiasm in the Congress for the open doors to the historical and recent concerns of the sector, such as management systems that grant greater autonomy to the media and their reinforcement, order, technological renovation. I understand that those who are not invited to the badysis are enraged because they are not part of the UPEC, nor of Cuban society who won with sacrifices and efforts the right exclusive to discuss how to conceive the future. It is amazing that they have begun to launch intrigue floods against the Party and the country's media system, employees of the world's only thought in its Creole or foreign version. Qu & # 39; they expect? What do you suggest? Do we give, for example, our press agencies to the arms of the market and their journalists to the street? Well no. Our Telam will not be bled. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) does not send to Cuba.
For the news that I have received since the early days of Congress, it has been a successful event, with economy of reports and strong and contributory proposals, from the experience of the foundations of the past. organization in the media and in the academy. I think it's because the UPEC has not stopped working during these years, even in the most disconcerting and hardest moments, when they lost their natural and formal leader, Brother Moltó, as I know that they like to call it, for the sake of it. His brilliant definition of what is the UPEC, his battle to add to the youngsters any fighting that Cuba has had and its ability to promote even the impetus to computerization, to the ## 147 ## The use of social networks and the intensive use of Faculty contributions, leaves a marked path through which will pbad today a renewed national committee without breaking the continuity.
Commission summaries will be a useful working tool to address new media spaces, without fear, creatively to the offensive, overcoming the technological advantages of the platforms. colonizers with the talent and creativity that gave us our fighting nature and the cultural and political heritage that has left us Fidel, that we are always delivered by Raúl and his colleagues from the historical generation.
I do not forget the stronger demands they made: the salary, insufficient and anchored in old resolutions that must be discarded; the precarious material situation of the media and journalists, a subject in which light is already beginning to appear at the end of the tunnel of our eternal shortages, at least in the provinces, where the needs of journalists and their media have been taken into account in employment 1% of the territorial contribution (local income).
No one is better prepared than you to understand that waiting is much more than the need for union. It is the need of a people, noble and hardworking, whose human, heroic and moving stories are yet to be fully told. As it is more like the country we are, the country that our media show. There may be a lack of material resources, but the moral resource and the revolutionary ethics, to which you contribute daily, can never be missed, what Víctor Joaquín y Aroldo defends
To defend these values, we are Cuba !
Consider one more, I also feel a great responsibility in the great task ahead, you and us, the Party, the State and the Government to settle our many debts with history past and recent, which is at the same time the future.
Yes, the truth needs you. And the Revolution, taught us Marti and Fidel, is this truth greater than ourselves.
We will see ourselves on the road to this horizon that we must
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