Pablo Velazco, the doyen of the journalists in the Cuba’s nickel mining region of Moa died from a respiratory failure in the early morning of Thursday.

He was born in Santiago de Cuba, and since his youth he participated in the revolutionary cause, as a member of the clandestine actions of the 26 de Julio Movement as well as in the Rebel Army, after the triumph.

Velazco arrived in Moa like hundreds of young people throughout Cuba, who were in search of work, when he consolidated the work at what would soon be part of his own life, at “La Fabrica” as he used to call the Commander Pedro Soto Alba Nickel Plant.

Precisely in this industry he founded and led for several years, ¨The Nickel newspaper ¨, and also joined the small group of founders of the ¨Voice of nickel¨ radio station as a journalist and capable of training the new generations of professionals in that media, where his anthology comments and thoughts, always starting the early hours of radio transmissions, as well as critical remarks always just about everyday problems in the community.

Velazco founded in Moa, and served as the first local chairman of the Union of Journalists of Cuba. He served with outstanding results, as the first director of the communications system in Moa, and from that responsibility managed and worked tirelessly until they mounted the first radio and television transmitters in the area, until then it was an area of silence without any possibility of receiving quality signals from radio and television. He also worked for the installation of telephone boards and on the first public telephone services inMoa during the 1960’s.

Recently, and with his health failing, he devoted special efforts to the reappearance of the ¨Nickel¨ newspaper in the Commander Pedro Soto Alba Factory, on the anniversary fifty of the launch of the legendary revolutionary industry.

Velazco Mir, was, until his death, the historian of Moa, an additional responsibility to all the other duties, given to him several years ago by the Municipal Assembly of Popular Power.

The doyen of journalists in Moa, known, respected and admired locally and across the country, had been the recipient of several awards as a stimulus to his career as a revolutionary fighter, in addition, the Axe of Holguin, the highest institutional recognition that comes in the Province, and Pen of Honour of the UPEC, the microphone Dignity and thespecial Distinction ¨Teacher of youth.¨

The funeral of Velazco Mir took place Friday morning at the local cemetery at Moa, the red soil that took him as an illustrious son which he always was, and where his seed will forever be fertile, and the continuity of his work, especially with his son, Camilo Velazco Petiton, journalist and director of station La Voz del Niquel station.

Translated by: Daysi Olano

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