Cuba shakes up leadership at 2 prominent papers

Cuba shakes up leadership at 2 prominent papers
7:41 AM Thursday Oct 10, 2013

HAVANA (AP) Cuban authorities are shaking up the leadership at two of
the country's most prominent newspapers.

Communist Party newspaper Granma says director Lazaro Barredo is being
replaced by Pelayo Terry Cuervo, who previously headed the party's youth
organ, Juventud Rebelde.

Juventud Rebelde deputy director Marina Menendez Quintero is being
promoted to lead that newspaper.

A brief story in Granma on Wednesday says the goal is to achieve
"renewal." The decision was made by the Communist Party's powerful
Political Bureau.

President Raul Castro challenged Cuban journalists in 2011 to be bolder
with "objective, constant and critical reporting."

However there has been little discernible change since then in island
media, which rarely venture from the official line.

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