Barredo replaced ‘due to renovation’

Following is the official announcement of Lázaro Barredo’s release from duty, which appeared today (Oct. 9) on Page One of Granma. The translation is by Progreso Weekly.

The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba agreed to release, due to renovation, comrade Lázaro Barredo Medina from the post of editor of the newspaper Granma, a function he performed for almost eight years.

Promoted in replacement of Barredo Medina has been comrade Pelayo Terry Cuervo, who, at the moment of his appointment, was responsible for the editorship of the newspaper Juventud Rebelde. He has accumulated an ascending trajectory as a journalist, war correspondent in Ethiopia, and has occupied different executive posts in organs of the printed press.

Promoted to the post of editor of Juventud Rebelde was comrade Marina Menéndez Quintero, who went from journalist to deputy director of the newspaper of the Cuban youth and fulfilled missions to Nicaragua and Venezuela.