Martinez Pirez has a long and fruitful career in Cuban journalism

Oblivious to any regionalism or narrow-mindedness, this Cuban and universal journalist and universal has a special feeling to his native land and city: Santa Clara. That's why we talked to him about being selected this Cuban central city for the second time in the recent years, the venue  to celebrate the anniversary of the attacks on Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes barracks in Santiago de Cuba and Bayamo, respectively on July 26, 1953.

José Ramón Marcos

I heard from José Ramón Marcos’s death in those windy days of April. I retained that painful piece of news as if was a deafening noise that gradually was diminished until stop. Many hours for remembering came later; long conversations and images came to my mind. With his death, somehow expected, I felt the same thing as when close friends pass away; that feeling of emptiness for loosing a friend.

I used to ask Marcos for interviews many times and he would always answer my request, smiling so tenderly that it would turn into irresistible to have encounters with him. There were many encounters but suddenly death came up. Many years of friendship allowed having different kind of conversations, mainly about theater Cuban literature, universal literature, what it made possible to have deep and helpful interviews.  I interviewed Marcos on some occasions while he tried to fix my old -fashion computer. He was very good at fixing computers; he really did a good work.

For 15 years her voice has been linked to the Cuban province of Camagüey from where she contributes her reports to Havana-based emblematic Radio Rebelde.

Journalist Miozotis Fabelo Pinares has become very popular in various radio programs in Cuba; due to her devotion she has been elected outstanding worker of the National Trade Union of the Culture's Workers twenty times in a row.

Martha Jimenez Oropesa, prize-winning actress and radio announcer will be 90 years old

Today the Cuban culture paid homage to Cuban versatile actress Martha Jimenez Oropesa who is 90 years old and continues teaching to the new generations of  broadcasters and left her imprint among the radio listeners for their role in the humoristic program ”Alegrias de Sobremesa  of Radio Progreso.

Martha received the recognition of the public that admired and loved her and actors and actresses, who the public admires and wants, and the actors and actresses that were formed by her side, nourished by their discipline, professionalism and concern for the artistic work in radio productions.

By Yainier Sanchez Gonzalez, First Year Journalism student   Translated by Daysi Olano Fernandez

Orlando Castellanos was a self taught person; he used to visit a local radio station at eight years old. Later, he was an excellent professional of the media. This devotion for the media do not leave him to continue superior studies but it did not matter. Orlando Castellanos Molina makes its own phrase ‘the practice is the mother of knowledge. Since he was a child he learned and improved the quality in his work, the same in a local or national radio station, in Cuba or abroad.