Weaver Ravelo, television presenter who escaped … – Digital Freedom

The journalist and host of a nightly news on national television in Cuba Juan Carlos Tejedor Ravelo has announced his decision to stay in Miami (USA), where he arrived about five months ago for a temporary stay, local media reports.

Weaver Ravelo, driver information Close on the state channel Cuba Vision, explained that he has taken this decision after much thought and that the reason is the search for a “better future, freedom” and made “as a professional and human being,” as he told the newspaper “El Nuevo Herald”.

“Since the ships were burned while,” he said of this decision presenter, who came to the United States through a third country after asking a vacation and then unpaid leave.

Weaver Ravelo, who said he is ready to “a new life” and had advanced on Friday that decision in a television interview in which he said the word desertion seemed “a little dry for who escapes from prison is released “.

The journalist, who said he is not member of the Communist Party of Cuba, acknowledged that the island exists “ a dictatorship ” and a control on the media, preventing him from modifying the newsletters had to read in the information or the speeches and “reflections” of Fidel Castro.

“For everybody, one is the voice, the body and face of a government,” said the presenter, alluding linkages to the public established between him and the Cuban Government.

Ravelo Weaver graduated in Biology and was the National Zoo worker Cuba, after which, during the years of the “special period”, he became reader in the tobacco Güira Melena town where it originated.

That job, which is to read aloud to workers snuff, allowed make the jump to the radio and then become one of the drivers of the evening news on state television work, he stressed, was not reported government benefits.

In the television interview to local TV America TeVé also attended the former head of the International Cuban newspaper “Granma” Aida Calviac Mora, asylee in the United States since last January and who noted that other journalists are “in the process of leaving Cuba and seek asylum in the United States and elsewhere” .