A well-known Cuban television presenter takes refuge in Miami – The World

Juan Carlos Ravelo Weaver. Cuban Television.

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

Weaver Ravelo, driver information ‘Closing’ on the state channel Cuba Vision said it 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 ‘Herald’ .

“I burned the ships in a while,” he said regarding his decision this presenter, who came to the United States through a third country after requesting 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 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 in the media, what prevented modify the bulletins had to read in the information or the speeches and “reflections” of Fidel Castro .

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

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

That job, which consists to read aloud to workers snuff, let him make the leap to radio and then become one of the drivers of evening news on state television, work, stressed, he did not report benefits from the government.

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