Granma (newspaper)
The Granma (English " grandma " ) is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, named after the yacht Granma with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other rebels landed in Cuba in 1956 to oppose the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista fight. It is with a daily circulation of around 500,000 copies, the largest daily newspaper in Cuba and appears in the tabloid -like miniature. The only color besides black is the red of the logo and several headings. The right of the Granma lettering appears a photo of the young Fidel Castro surrounded by comrades with highly stretched carbine rifles and right next to it occasionally changing motto.
Content is continuity since the founding of the newspaper. Man tells of state visits and party meetings, speeches socialist leader will be printed, coupled by a few international news, a bit of culture and national sports news. The general tone is triumphalist. Problems of the population are almost not discussed in the editorial section. Only in the free daily letters to the editor they appear in their infancy.
History
Your first issue appeared on October 4, 1965. It originated from the merger of two Cuban newspapers, Revolución, organ of the 26th of July Movement, which led by Fidel Castro revolutionary organization, and Noticias de Hoy (1938 ), organ of the Socialist People's Party of Cuba after both organizations merged after the victory of the Cuban Revolution in July 1961.
The Granma published daily with a circulation of about 500,000 copies. Moreover, there is as of February 20 1966 weekly international edition, which now appears in many different languages ( inter alia German, English, French, Italian, Creole haitien ) appears. They first called Granma weekly review, and since 1991 Granma Internacional. The article in the Granma published in parallel on the Internet, both as a PDF edition of the print version as well as its own online publication.
Often, official announcements of the Cuban government in the Granma be published. The Cuban edition is printed daily, excluding Sundays, each comprising 8 pages, in March 2008 from Friday 16th you occasionally contains other side dishes, such as 2006, a supplement to truck purchases in the People's Republic of China by the state-owned power plants or other at the beginning the Football World Cup 2006 in Germany.
In March 2008, a weekly, published on Fridays letter to the editor section has been set up in the newspaper. It is sometimes released there criticism of poorly performing authorities, but no breach of the said line of the Party views. The expenditure of the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9 March, 2013, the content of which was devoted to each predominantly the recently deceased Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, the title logo of the newspaper was printed in black instead of the usual in red
The technical equipment of the editorial is considered relatively poor: The computers are outdated and slow, just as the Internet and the cameras of photojournalists. Given a below-cost selling price of 20 centavos (Peso Cubano ), which as of 2013 is less than one euro cent, this is not surprising.
With the change in the editorship in October 2013, some observers connect a hope of cautious opening of the press away from pure obsequious and uncritical reporting. The current hardline former chief editor Lázaro Barredo Molina was mixed with 65 years in retirement. His successor was the former editor of the newspaper of the Communist Youth League Juventud Rebelde, Pelayo Terry, where for example there is a quite controversial comment function used for the Internet edition. Public statements by leading members of the government, for example, Vice President Miguel Díaz- Canel, nourish this hope. Others, such as the political scientist and Cuba expert Bert Hoffmann, are more cautious. Thus, " [ was ] there a recurring ritual that Fidel or Raul Castro criticized the media without something was changing. ' Respect, Díaz- canels criticism of the state media is to be treated with caution. ' "