Radio and television can foster people’s spirituality, said Josefa Bracero Torres during her speech on the TV program: “Con dos que se quieran” (Between two people who love each other) that was broadcast on Tuesday by Cubavision channel on the Cuban Television with its host Amaury Perez vidal, a Cuban singer and writer. Josefa Bracero is a journalist, a researcher, a historian and a prominent personality from the mass media in Cuba.

The outstanding figure referred to the imprint left by those who are part of the history in our mass media by their creative and artistic talent, and they also left a deep human and cultural imprint. Germain Pinelli, Jose Antonio Cepero Brito, Consuelito Vidal, Manolo Ortega, Raquel Revuelta, and Gina Cabrera are included, among others.

Bracero noted that she had learned of universal culture-since she was a child- by listening to radio novels, including drama versions of universal literature, from her native province of Camaguey. Then she told us about her dedication to radio announcing and research journalism as well as the time she dedicated to serial narration, in which she is considered as one the women who made their incursions on that difficult field, only conceived for male narrators.

She highlighted that the art of animation is one of the most difficult specialties on the radio and it constitute the highest step within radio announcing and narration. "To announce on the radio you should know how to improvise, to have a general culture and professional knowledge, and even to feel you have an angel inside," she said.

She described her professional work on the radio, being the vice-president of the Cuban Institute for Radio and Television (ICRT) over 19 years and 4 months, as a step forward from the teaching quality point of view. Those were wonderful times for Cuban radio, when 29 radio stations were created, even in distant territories like those mountain regions and in winding places of Cuban geography such as Caimanera, Niquero, Guantanamo and Holguin.

Bracero stressed the contribution of all the staff during her long professional path as ICRT vice president. She named, in particular, Urivazo Renaldo Infante, a programming director and his excellent staff of radio advisers whose were responsible for ruling methods and missions of the Cuban radio and the Revolution.

Finally, Bracero acknowledged - with a sincere smile- her family dedication and collaboration for she could spend much time at work studying and searching about those great personalities who have worked for the radio and television from its foundation until 2006, an information compiled in her testimonial book: “Rostros que se escuchan”  (Faces that can be listened  to).

A translation by: Silke Paez Carr

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