Granma (newspaper)
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| description | Cuban newspaper |
| First edition | 4th October 1965 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Sold edition | 500,000 copies |
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| Editor-in-chief | Yailin Orta Rivera |
| editor | Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) |
| Web link | www.granma.co.cu |
The Granma (English for "grandma") is the central organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba , named after the yacht Granma with which Fidel Castro , Che Guevara and 80 other rebels landed in Cuba in 1956 to fight against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista . With a daily circulation of around 500,000 copies, it is the largest daily newspaper in Cuba and appears in a tabloid-like small format. The only color besides black is the red of the logo and some headings. To the right of the Granma lettering, a photo of young Fidel Castro appears in the midst of comrades with raised carbine rifles and to the right of it an occasionally changing motto.
In terms of content, there has been continuity since the newspaper was founded. State visits and party events are reported, speeches by socialist leaders are printed, paired with a few international news, a little culture and national sports news. Problems of the population are hardly addressed at all in the editorial part. They can only be seen in rudiments in the Friday letters to the editor.
history
Its first edition appeared on October 4, 1965. It emerged from the merger of two Cuban daily newspapers, Revolución , organ of the July 26th Movement , the revolutionary organization led by Fidel Castro, and Noticias de Hoy (1938), organ of the People's Socialist Party of Cuba after the two organizations merged after the victory of the Cuban Revolution in July 1961.
The Granma appears daily with a circulation of approx. 500,000 copies. In addition, there has been a weekly international edition since February 20, 1966, which is now published in many different languages (including German, English, French, Italian, kréole haitien). It was initially called Granma weekly review and since 1991 Granma Internacional . Granma's articles are also published in parallel on the Internet, both as a PDF version of the print version and as a separate online publication.
Official announcements of the Cuban government are often published in the Granma . The Cuban edition is printed every day except on Sundays and consists of 8 pages each, and since March 2008 16 on Fridays. It occasionally contains additional supplements.
In March 2008, a weekly Friday readers' letter section was set up in the newspaper. Criticism of poorly functioning authorities is sometimes published there, but no views contrary to the party's stated line. For the editions of March 6, 7, 8 and 9, 2013, the content of which was mainly dedicated to the previously deceased Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez , the title lettering of the newspaper appeared in black instead of the usual red.
The technical equipment of the editorial office is considered to be relatively poor: the computers are outdated and slow, as is the internet and the cameras of the photo reporters. The sales price is 20 centavos ( Peso Cubano ), which is less than one euro cent (as of 2013).
With the change in the editor-in-chief in October 2013, some observers linked a hope that the press would be cautiously opened up and away from pure court reporting. The then editor-in-chief Lázaro Barredo Molina , who was considered a hardliner , was retired at the age of 65. His successor was the previous editor-in-chief of the newspaper of the communist youth association Juventud Rebelde , Pelayo Terry , where there is, for example, a controversially used comment function for the Internet edition. Public statements by government leaders, such as Vice President Miguel Díaz-Canel , fueled this hope. Others, like the political scientist and Cuban expert Bert Hoffmann , were more cautious. Accordingly, “[be] it a recurring ritual that Fidel or Raúl Castro criticized the media without anything changing. In this respect, Díaz-Canel's criticism of the state media should also be treated with caution. '"
On December 5, 2017, Yailin Orta Rivera took over the post of editor-in-chief after Pelayo Terry Cuervo was dismissed in early November for unspecified "errors in the performance of his duties".
Granma International in German
After intensive consultations between the Communist Party of Cuba, the Cuban Institute for Friendship of the Nations (ICAP), various German Cuba support groups and the DKP, a publisher was found in Germany to print the German edition. On May 17, 1994, the tradition of a German-language edition in the 1960s was continued with the zero number. Today the newspaper appears in the Berlin publishing house May 8th (Junge Welt) .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Media in Cuba
- ↑ a b c Philipp Lichterbeck: Party paper “Granma” wants to reform , Der Tagesspiegel from October 17, 2013
- ↑ Declaration del Gobierno Revolutionario Hasta siempre, Comandante (PDF; 884 kB, Spanish). In: Granma of March 6, 2013. Online at www.granma.co.cu.
- ↑ "Granma" has a new editor-in-chief
- ↑ https:// Amerika21.de/2019/05/226063/deutsche-granma-jubilaeum