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Many people are convicted in Cuba thanks to the withdrawal of accreditations from the EFE
The decisions of the Cuban specialists to withdraw at the last moment the press certifications of the group of EFE news offices on the island, has prompted a course of political responses as well as those of the associations that shield the opportunity of the press and the media editorials.
The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs met today with the chargé d'affaires of the Cuban government office in Madrid, responsible for the legation without a diplomat, to ask for clarification on this action, and of which there is no evidence that it has occurred in any other act with a worldwide wording.
Likewise, the Spanish consulate in Havana is making arrangements with Cuban specialists to return the titles to Efe columnists so that they can complete their work, official sources said.
Without receiving any explanation
The heads of the International Press Center of Cuba called this Saturday the Efe group that now certifies in Havana; We spoke of three editors, a photographer and a television camera, to inform them that their accreditations were withdrawn, without explaining if the action is brief or definitive.
The action was embraced a month and a half after the accreditation of the organizer of EFE articles in Havana was withdrawn.
The leader of the Efe Agency, Gabriela Cañas, said she trusts that the Cuban government "revalues" to return the press accreditations withdrawn to the editors of this medium.
Efe Agency is a sensible and capable media outlet that has been writing about the island for more than 40 years and does not understand the purposes of this action, Cañas wrote on Twitter.
In addition, the former director of the Efe Agency, Fernando Garea, has described this action on Twitter as "horrendous news for Cuba, and for Spain".
The Editorial Board of the EFE Agency, the body that manages the editors of this medium, has communicated its help to the specialists of their appointment in Havana and has requested the arrival of their press qualifications to have the option of attending to their responsibilities without limits.
Reactions from other media were noted
On Twitter, Reporters Without Borders requested the claim of EFE's accreditations in Cuba and addressed the Spanish government to mediate, in addition to warning that it will closely monitor the well-being of EFE's Cuban columnists.
The Federation of Associations of Journalists of Spain (FAPE) also requested the intervention of the public authority of Pedro Sánchez so that Cuba "revalues" this action.
In a note, FAPE "completely" rejects this decision of the Cuban government, considering it a "reasonable violation of the world guidelines on the opportunity of the press" and requests that the Spanish government "make the intercession attempts it deems appropriate so that Cuba reconsider the action. "
"This action is an assault on the opportunity of articulation and data and aims to prevent the editors of Efe from proceeding to give details about the circumstance in Cuba with the polished methodology, meticulousness and fairness with which the Spanish organization has always worked," he says the leader of the FAPE, Nemesio Rodríguez.
The organization of women communicators of ACM International denounced "energetically" the election of the Cuban government and from Rome, the World Association of Women Journalists and Writers (AMMPE) asked its associates to "make their voices heard" despite what it considered "a true assault on the opportunity of the press ".
" We ask our partners around the planet, particularly in Latin America, to make their voices heard despite this action, which we consider a real assault on the opportunity of the press", adds the AMMPE, created in 1969 in Ciudad de Mexico and whose current base camp is in Rome.
The Association of International Press Correspondents in Chile (ACPI) communicated its strength to the EFE Agency "considering the reprehensible assault on the opportunity of the press, a basic right that its experts have experienced in Cuba".
