Orlando Fundora López

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Orlando Fundora López (* around 1927 ; † February 2, 2016 in Cuba ) was a high functionary of the Communist Party of Cuba and honorary president of the World Peace Council .

Life

Orlando Fundora completed his studies with the Lizenziatur from.

During the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista (1952-1959) Fundora participated in the armed resistance that resulted in the Cuban Revolution . For example, he planned an assassination attempt on a high-ranking police officer in Havana, which was discovered during the preparatory phase. Fundora was arrested and, according to his own statements, tortured by the police until he was released on the intercession of a pediatrician who was related to him and who had previously saved the life of the officer's young daughter.

In 1961 he was a co-founder of the Cuban government's international shortwave broadcaster, Radio Habana Cuba , where he first worked as head of the central editorial office and then as general director. In 1967 he was temporarily general director of the internationally oriented Cuban news agency Prensa Latina .

From the mid-1960s he headed the “Revolutionary Orientation” department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba . In this role he was responsible for the content control of the co-ordinated media in the country and was regarded in a study published in 2003 by the US foreign intelligence agency Central Intelligence Agency as one of the central functionaries of the Fidel Castro propaganda apparatus . In 1985 he was released from this position and replaced by Carlos Aldana. At the same time, his superior, Antonio Pérez Herrero, Secretary of the Central Committee, also known as the party's chief ideologist, lost his post.

In the same year Fundora became the head of the "Movement for Peace and Sovereignty of the Peoples" (MovPaz), the Cuban member organization of the World Peace Council, founded by the Cuban government.

Fundora is involved as a speaker and author in the peace and democracy movement. In the spring of 2002, he was one of the signatories of an international call for peace warning of US aggression against Iraq .

In the international peace movement he emerged as a motor. Fundora replaced Albertina Sisulu as President of the World Peace Council in 2002 . In 2008 Maria do Socorro Gomes Coelho succeeded him and he himself became honorary president of the WFR.

At the World Peace Conference on April 8, 2008 in Caracas , as President of the World Peace Council, he declared the Venezuelan capital to be the " World Capital of Peace and the Anti-Imperialist Struggle ".

In 2013 he was honored by the Cuban State Journalists' Association (UPEC) together with 19 other journalists for his work in defense of the revolution with the medal for the 50th anniversary of the association.

Publications

  • A cien anos irradia luz . Paz y Soberania (La Habana) (4): 2-5; oct.-dic, 1989 La Edad de Oro
  • El modo de vida socialista: respuesta al reto del futuro , en: Cuba Socialista, núm. 4, La Habana 1982; English translation: The Socialist Way of Life: a Response to the Challenge of the Future (pp. 33-52) FBIS Latin America Report No. 2647 of February 22, 1982, accessed May 27, 2012

literature

  • Centro de Estudios Martianos: Anuario del Centro de Estudios Martianos , issues 14-15, Centro de Estudios Martianos publisher, 1991

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fallció el compañero Orlando Fundora López. In: granma.cu. GRANMA, February 2, 2016, accessed February 4, 2016 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ a b Internataufruf In: KPOE.at. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Testimonio de un revolucionario torturado por el más famoso criminal de la dictadura batistiana. In: Juventud Rebelde, May 13, 2009, accessed March 25, 2014 (Spanish).
  4. ^ Distinguen a Orlando Fundora, ex director de Radio Habana Cuba. ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Cubaperiodistas.cu of December 26, 2011, accessed on May 27, 2012 (Spanish). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cubaperiodistas.cu
  5. ↑ Directores Generales de Prensa Latina. ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.prensa-latina.cu archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Prensa Latina website , accessed March 25, 2014 (Spanish)
  6. ↑ CIA: Cuba: Castro's Propaganda Apparatus and Foreign Policy ( Memento of November 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 27, 2012 (English)
  7. ↑ http://www.deutscher-friedensrat.de/berichte_027.htm Retrieved March 4, 2012
  8. ↑ Periodismo cubano: medio siglo de brega por la Revolución.In: Radio Cadena Agramonte , July 12, 2013, accessed on March 25, 2014 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Fundora López, Orlando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban university professor and peace activist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1927
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 2016
Place of death Cuba