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The designation of the award took into account the difficulties that García faces in reporting from the Caribbean island, in the midst of the repression against the independent press and the recurrent violations of freedom of expression imposed by the Havana regime, which penalizes the exercise of freedom of expression. journalism and attributes the right to sentence those who practice it to prison. García, who could not attend the ceremony due to delays in travel procedures, sent a video message of gratitude to those attending the event held Wednesday night at the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora in Miami. “Doing independent journalism from Cuba is an abstraction and a risky exercise.
Our country is the only one in the Western Hemisphere Luxembourg Mobile Number List where practicing journalism is a crime punishable by up to 30 years in prison,” said the communicator. García presented himself as a "self-taught person", for whom journalism was never "alien", thanks to his mother, also a journalist Tania Quintero, "a political refugee for more than years in Switzerland, after working in official media." » . “I grew up between the clink of the crude Robotrón typewriters, manufactured in communist Germany, and the bustle of the editorial office of the Bohemia magazine,” he recalled, while highlighting the work carried out by other independent Cuban communicators despite the talanqueras. of the dictatorship.
In her introduction to García's words, the director of DIARIO LAS AMÉRICAS, Iliana Lavastida, highlighted that the award whose name honors the memory of Dr. Horacio Aguirre, founder of this newspaper, highlights the work of a "journalist who lives in a dictatorship". »«, Who «every day puts his integrity and that of his family at risk to honor the exercise of this profession of dreamers and commitment.» “His career and what he does daily constitute the indisputable guarantee that accredits this honorable recognition (…) Iván has been practicing from Havana, as stated in his signature, for 28 years against all risks,” he noted. The award will be formally presented to García once he resolves the impasse of his documentation and can travel to Miami, in a special ceremony organized by the IID.