Pedro Roberto Torres Aranda, a prestigious retired reporter who worked for the Radio Bahía station, in the municipality of Caimanera, was given the commemorative medal for the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Journalists Association (UPEC) in an encounter taking place at his home in the Guantanamo coastal territory.
Taimí Fernández Pérez, president of the professional organization in the province, presented the decoration to one of the first professionals in the province deserving the José Vázquez Savón Journalism Award for the Work of Life, granted by UPEC in Guantanamo.
In his professional history, Torres Aranda stands out for his participation in the opening of the Guantanamo correspondent office of the Cuban News Agency, and his performance since 1977 as director of the Venceremos newspaper.
He was correspondent in the People’s Republic of Angola heading the press team of the weekly Verde Olivo. He was also in charge of carrying out an hour of daily broadcast on the National Radio in the sister African nation, addressed to the Cuban collaborators there.
At the beginning of the nineties in the last century, Torres Aranda started working in the Radio Bahía station, in which he was the director and later a journalist until his retirement.
The moment was also the appropriate to grant the UPEC membership to the prominent journalist Yurisneiry Borges Naranjo, who works as a reporter and program director for Radio Bahía, a station founded on December 19, 1996.
