Granma Newspaper Editor Leaves Cuba for Miami

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Granma Newspaper Editor Leaves Cuba for Miami

MIAMI January 18, 2014 (AP)

A high-ranking editor with the Communist Party newspaper Granma has left Cuba to live in Miami.

Aida Calviac Mora told America TeVe (http://bit.ly/1dZ5cbp) Thursday that she arrived in the U.S. through Mexico and plans to stay.

The former international news page editor criticized the state media monopoly and said there is a "crisis of credibility" in the relationship between the public and the Cuban news media.

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/granma-newspaper-editor-leaves-cuba-miami-21580748

[Zorro]

1. Hey what does she know

[Judi Lynn]

2. Apparently the dumbshit doesn't know how little respect the corporate media here deserves.

Don't make us laugh.

Un-bleeping-believable.

[Socialistlemur]

3. She does know about media censorship by the Cuban dictatorship

This is a simple case of a young Cuban who got tired of living under censorship. She knows the Cuban press has zero credibility with the people. It's mostly used as wrapping paper and for similar purposes. Evidently she is a professional and has ethics. These are the kind of you g people who will eventually overthrow Castro's dictatorship. It seems inevitable.

[Marksman_91]

4. U mad?

Oh, are your feelings hurt that a Cuban who once worked for the most popular state-controlled paper and actually has first-hand knowledge of how things work in there became so fed up with the whole situtation that they decided to leave the country? Sounds like trouble in paradise...

And as for the media here, at least one is free to openly criticize the government in any way they want without being worried that they'll get sanctioned or shut down or what-have-you. Hell, Faux News makes up ridiculous bullshit all the time about anything that Democrats or Obama do and they're still there alive and kicking. Mind you, that doesn't mean I think it's right to say lies and pass it off as "news", but the point is, freedom of speech actually is respected in the US, at least moreso than in Cuba.