After the controversy with Censorship of the documentary La Habana de Fito by Juan Pin Vilar was Ramón Samada Suárez has been dismissed from the leadership of the Cuban State Institute for Cinematic Arts and Industry (ICAIC).who was replaced by Susana Molina, hitherto director of the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV).
According to a statement published by the official newspaper Granma, the leadership of the ICAIC “will be taken over by Susana Molina as Acting President from the position of Vice-President”.
“This was announced by the Ministry of Culture Ramón Samada Suárez, who held the office of ICAIC President, requested his dismissal. “The results of his work in recent years have been appreciated,” says the official information.
“To take over the leadership of EICTV, Waldo Ramírez de la Ribera has been proposed to the leadership group of this center and to the Supreme Council of the New Latin American Cinema Foundation, who will serve as Cuba’s representative at Telesur and as the first vice president of the (defunct) Cuban Institute for radio and television,” he adds.
On June 23, a group of filmmakers met with representatives of the Cuban regime, including Deputy Prime Minister Inés María Chapman and Culture Minister Alpidio Alonso Meeting at which the President of the ICAIC, Ramón Samada, threatened those present who insisted on admission with reprisals despite the ban on doing so.
Despite this, the Cuban filmmaker Miguel Coyula managed to record fragments of this meeting, which he later published. Following that ICAIC has canceled the exhibition of several foreign animated films whose restoration was carried out by CoyulaDirector of films such as Memorias del desarrollo (2010), Nadie (2017) and Corazón azul (2020), all of which have been censored on the island.
More appointments
This Sunday they were Three Vice Presidents of the Institute for Information and Social Communication were appointed.
As reported in his Twitter account Alfonso Noya Martínez, President of the Institute, the chosen ones were Belkys Pérez Cruz, Jorge Legañoa Alonso and Onelio Castillo Corderí.
“As part of the work plan for the creation of the Institute of Information and Social Communication, Belkys Pérez Cruz, Jorge Legañoa Alonso and Onelio Castillo Corderí were appointed its vice-presidents, all with extensive and distinguished careers,” he wrote.
The Cuban regime said at a roundtable in April 2021 that it spent nine years investigating the creation of the IICS, the body of the central state administration that now “directs and controls” propaganda in Cuba. after the ICRT died out, now part of the IICS. Government spokesman said the state would become “more democratic” and they would have the opportunity “to build a press model that has never existed in the world before”.“.
Despite the fact that Havana regime spokesmen insist on the supposed renewal of the PCC-controlled propaganda apparatus and media, The Cuban government still does not allow the establishment of independent media or the private practice of journalism.
While Miguel Díaz-Canel pretends to listen to the official journalists, the leader himself and the PCC media criticize the independent press and do not allow it to find resources on the island to survive.
The Cuban government listed journalists and other professions related to the press and literature among the 124 activities banned from private practice on the island.