CAMAGÜEY.- Reporters from various generations agree that Adelante Newspaper, which celebrated its 66th anniversary on Sunday 12th, is a school and a second home, and continues to live up to its name, combining the formula of youth and experience to make its publications an attractive product every day.
"Adelante is a forge because here I have learned to mold myself as a professional, facing the fire of challenges and pressures inherent to journalism. This media outlet has allowed me to grow and strengthen myself, sharpening my skills and ethical values with each experience lived," said Yanetsy León González, a journalist with 17 years of work in the newspaper, since she graduated from the Universidad Central de Las Villas.
In this place, she said, I have learned to give the best of myself, under challenging circumstances, to hone my critical instinct, and to remain firm in the principles of truth and responsibility that define our work.
For his part, Enrique Atiénzar Rivero confessed that it is a school where one never stops learning, he affirmed, with all propriety for the 59 years that he has been in the newspaper, since May 9th, 1966 when he first set foot in its editorial office and the offices were on Goyo Benítez Street, in the city of Camagüey.
At that time, the province extended to Jatibonico, in the current Sancti Spíritus, to the west, and to Amancio Rodríguez to the east, a territory that currently belongs to Las Tunas, said Atiénzar Rivero.
Three years ago, Luis Adrián Viamontes Hernández, came to Adelante motivated by the productive dynamics and the constant learning that exists, since it has the peculiarity of the presence in the work team of experienced and young people, something that in his opinion allows a variety of styles and ways of doing things that are exchanged, and enrich daily performance.
"Since we started, we are assigned work on different topics, that is, we move in various sectors, which helps to broaden the spectrum, get to know the province better, and perfect the knowledge acquired at the university," he explained.
During a decade of work at the newspaper, the young reporter Yang Fernández Madruga has had the opportunity to work in various fields, such as science, culture, history, among others that he has had to cover, and that is very beneficial from a professional point of view, as it prepares him to write and elaborate on the topics that need to be covered.
"The newspaper is a great stew, where the confluence of several generations contributes a lot, because the result is seen in the daily work, for the good of everything we do.
I feel very satisfied for having chosen this means of communication because I always liked the written press and I leaned towards this particular way of doing journalism, he said.
A more recent addition, after graduating from the University of Camagüey, Elia Rosa Yera Zayas Bazán, assumes the publication as a space for learning and professional and personal growth, and at the same time a great responsibility, to live up to 66 years of history.
Daicar Saladrigas González, director of the newspaper, said during the commemoration that they begin the current year with the joy of having been included in the Experiment for editorial, technological, and economic transformation, promoted by the Union of Cuban Journalists in the country.
This becomes, she said, the main motivation for the work, to materialize the editorial and service projects that they have conceived as part of the experiment.
At 66 years old, Adelante remains faithful to the tradition of adapting to each historical moment and to the challenges of society, seeking to be, through all its platforms, closer to the people of Camagüey, she said.
"Adelante has been my only work center, everything good and bad that I know I have learned there. During my internship as a student, they made me feel part of the collective, and I have stayed there forever," she said about her permanence in the institution since she graduated from the University of Oriente, in Santiago de Cuba.
The event for the 66th anniversary of the newspaper was held in Agramonte Park, in this city, with the presence of Federico Hernández Hernández, member of the Central Committee and first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in the province, and Jorge Enrique Sutil, Governor of Camagüey.
At the event, Yanetsy León González and Luisa González Torres received the recognition of Comprehensive Vanguards of the center in 2024, and it was paid tribute to the 40 years of artistic life of the singer-songwriter Antonio Batista Sánchez.
Photo: taken from Cadena Agramonte
At the same time, Adelante recognized the work of Santiago Lajes Choy, who was the director of the newspaper.
Initially, as an evening paper, the newspaper began to be printed in the workshops of the morning paper El Camagüeyano, and after the collapse of the former Soviet Union it became a weekly due to the effects on 85 percent of Cuba's trade with the countries of the socialist camp, the supply of newspapers and other resources.
The newspaper Adelante began to circulate on January 12th, 1959, in the heat of the triumphant Revolution, only eight days after Fidel Castro's visit to the province of Camagüey, at the head of the Caravan of Freedom.
Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez