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Havana, July 15th. Speech by Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, on the occasion of the closing of the 10th Congress of the Union of Cuban Journalists, at the Palais des Conventions on 14 July 2018, "Year 60 of the Revolution."
Well, to start fulfilling congressional mandates and support Ronquillo and the new leadership, before December I'm on Twitter (Applause and exclamations).
] The partners of the party, state and government leadership present here
Dear National Journalism Awards
Dear Journalists:
After our last tours in several provinces and days From this congress, both scenarios that allow us to share experiences and meditations with the national press in a closer way, I have better understood why Fidel once asked them to consider it as any one of you.
they have the undisputed merit of having supported the voice of the nation in the most unfavorable circumstances and times, with admirable loyalty, a keen sense of responsibility, talent, intelligence and skill. a contagious enthusiasm that always generates interesting propositions
. not less expected of those who are proud to belong to an ennobled guild of its origins by intellectuals of the size of José Martí, Fidel Castro and the most brilliant leaders of the Revolution, from 1868 to the present day. and boring 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 work that requires no only talent and effort, also very high ideals to reject, amid great economic sacrifices, the offers of relatively "generous" that the lucrative campaign industry against Cuba, opportunistically and cynically, makes available of those who have a price or naively believe in the false libertarian speech of market apologists.
One could say that this has never been challenging and challenging the media landscape, but we would be unfair with the story of a revolution that did not experience the truce in its wake. an ardent effort to conquer all justice and, from the first day, as she recalls the phrase of Fidel who presided over the Congress, understood the central role of journalism in defending the besieged fortress.
How to imagine without the numerous clandestine and guerrilla press or without Radio Rebelde the rapid advance of the rebel army? What would have happened to the nascent revolution without the brilliant "Operation Truth"? The media war that stole the name of the apostle, aired by a plane, has not been submerged with technologies and new journalistic projects that have revolutionized radio and television in the past. Time and still today?
the truth needs journalism, Cuba could build a public media system whose main strength is you, journalists, more effective while being more authentic, original and creative to tell the nation and the world the truth that " needs them. "
What we can say now is that although the ICT revolution, the Internet era and the tyranny of companies engaged in the communications sector present us with increasingly important challenges in our underdeveloped economy, the country has not been subject to the rules of his opponent and has not surrendered his sovereignty in the name of rapid modernity.
And that, even if it is raining attempts to get us to the past of sensationalism and the private press under new masks, neither the Cuban public media nor their reporters 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 defend 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.
Referring to the type of mission that these media are trying to respect a surprising articulation that denies their supposed freedom, MH Lagarde, drew with irony but without euphemisms, the new clbad of leaders who sells us, from these spaces . I recommend the complete reading of the "new revolutionaries" of those that Lagarde states: […] The new revolutionaries swear and perjury that they are not employees of the official thought, but that they accept scholarships in the United States universities or that they receive journalism courses in Holland. where they are sure to teach them how to defend socialism in Cuba. We must badume that these courses and scholarships are free.
"The new revolutionaries call for disobedience when the union is most needed.For them, also experts in politics, nothing has to do with Cuba the" judicial "persecution of leftist leaders in Latin America, Attempts of State Strikes and Invasions in Venezuela and Nicaragua
"The new revolutionaries are democratic and respectful of contrary opinions, that is why those who do not share their position 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.
I know that the theoretical documents and the debates of the Congress, without ignoring, forgetting or rejecting the internal emergencies, which are finally so strategic, have highlighted the centrality of this battle which will never cease, between the logic of capital selfish and exclusionary, and our socialist and marti logic, faithful, united and generous
Because, even if they sell us another version of the facts, stubborn reality is too much in sight, pbading a painful bill to those who believed that the wolf was a sheep.
It is or not, since the time of Shakespeare.
Of course, this Congress was much more than this central debate and we are happiness In the first place, it is worth noting that we have reached this tenth edition with Social Communication Policy, a document which defines, finally, as a citizen 's right and as a public good, access to the. 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.
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 economics of solid and contributory relationships and approaches, from the experience of the foundations of the 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 his ability to promote even the camaraderie that he left as a style of work and his special relationship with the base at all levels.
the impetus for computerization, 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 continuity.
The summaries of the commissions will be a useful tool of work to take charge of the new media spaces, without fears, of creative way to the offensive, overcoming the technological advantages of the colonizing platforms with the talent and the creativity that gave us our fighting nature and the cultural and political heritage that Fidel left us, that Raúl and his companions of the historical generation continue to give us.
I do not forget the strongest demands that you made us: the salary, insufficient and anchored in old resolutions that must be rejected; 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 of 1% of the territorial contribution (local income).
Person 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. Material resources may be lacking, but the moral resource and the revolutionary ethics, to which you contribute every day, 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 us.
We will see ourselves on the road to this horizon that we must.
Thank you very much (Ovation).
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