Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, 13 May. - The Union of Journalists (UPEC) of Cuba and the Cuban Association of the United Nations (ACNU) paid tribute today to the Ecuadorian journalist Carlos Bastidas, on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of his assassination by the regime of Fulgencio Batista.
As reported by ACNU in its profile of X the leadership of UPEC, together with representatives of various agencies, recalled the value of the journalist and his eternal commitment to the truth.
Roberto Morales, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, also mentioned in X the figure of the Ecuadorian, who was the last journalist killed in Cuba, a day like today in 1958.
"This is the Revolution that swept away the dictatorship and prevented crimes like that from happening again," Morales said.
Bastidas was assassinated by the Batista dictatorship, on his return from the Sierra Maestra, after holding a professional meeting with the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.
The journalist at only 23 years old had an important journalistic endorsement: he had reported for different newspapers in Ecuador the events of Hungary in 1956 and the fall of the dictatorships of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, in Colombia, and Marcos Pérez, in Venezuela, various articles refer on the website Cubaperiodistas.
He was completely conquered by the Revolution and so he lived in the Sierra as one more revolutionary, would count years later the Argentine journalist Jorge Ricardo Masetti, founder and first president of the Latin American news agency Prensa Latina, with whom it coincided in that scenario. (Text and photo: PL)
