Cuban Newspaper Pushes Beyond Party Line : NPR From: npr.org
Tagged: Cuba, Cuban, newspaperPosted on: May 29th, 2008
In Cuba, the daily newspapers are all owned and run by the government or the Communist Party. For years, speeches by Fidel Castro were splashed across Page 1, and barely a critical word was published. But Fidel’s brother Raul, who has taken over as president, is now allowing more debate in the Cuban press, and one party-affiliated newspaper is rising to the challenge.
Juventud Rebelde (Rebel Youth) was founded in 1965 as the newspaper of the Communist Youth movement in Cuba. Throughout its existence, the publication mostly has featured whatever dreary “news” party leaders wanted published.”*
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