A well-known Cuban television presenter takes refuge in Miami – Radio Intereconomía

Miami (USA), 10 ago.- journalist and host of a nightly news on national television in Cuba Juan Carlos Tejedor Ravelo has communicated its decision to stay in Miami (USA), where he arrived about five months ago for a temporary stay, local media reported today.

Weaver Ravelo, host of the news “Closing” state television in 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 regarding his decision the 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”, had advanced Friday the decision in a television interview in which he said the word desertion seemed “a little dry because who escapes from prison is released.”

The journalist, who said it is not militant Communist Party of Cuba, acknowledged that exists on the island “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, referring to the public linkages established between him and the Cuban Government.

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

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

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