Por Redacción TV Yumurí 
A dozen press professionals in the Cuban province of Matanzas received the 60th Anniversary coin from the Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC), during an award ceremony held at the Office of the Curator of this city.
On the occasion of the event for the six decades of the organization, on the 15th, José González Rivas, Manuel Hernández Valdés and Roberto Pérez Betancourt were recognized, who already hold the José Martí National Journalism Award, in addition to Francisco «Pancho» Soriano Bérmudez, National Award for Sports Journalism.
Likewise, the medal was awarded to Maritza Tejera García, Aurora López Herrera, Federico Almeida Baró, Efraín Rodríguez Salas, Wilfredo Alayón Pérez and Yirmara Torres Hernández, in an act in which those who were winners and obtained mention in the most recent edition of the National Journalism Contest July 26.
Pérez Betancourt expressed that this moment is of great importance in the professional lives of the awardees, in which men and women who shared joys and disappointments, awards and frustrations, recognitions and criticisms come to mind during the course of their professional practice.
Today our unavoidable duty is updated by facing the challenges of the communication war characterized by avalanches of false news aimed at undermining unity, sowing disenchantment and discord, as well as inviting dissent from the values that we have historically defended, he stressed.
Pedro Rizo Martínez, president of UPEC in Matanzas, congratulated the founders of the organization and applauded the work of its executives and directors for six decades; you are the culture of resistance in the daily battle we face, he said.
The prizes of the National Journalism Contest July 26, 2023 in this western territory corresponded to Roberto de Jesús Hernández and Anet Martínez in written press, testimonial genre, in which section Ayose García received a mention.
García himself deserved the award in an interview, infographic (together with Lisandra Pérez Coto and Daryl Hernández) and journalistic dossier (together with a group of authors), while Yenli Lemus and Jessica Mesa added mentions in the written press and radio, respectively.
The Union of Journalists of Cuba reaches its 60th birthday with more than three thousand affiliates throughout the country and in a frank battle to consolidate an innovative and resistance journalism, while advancing in the construction of a new press model for the socialism. (ALH)
John Vila Acosta/ACN
Translated by Casterman Medina de Leon