At a press conference, representatives of the War Correspondents’ Circle of the Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC) explained that the commemoration will run from October 14 to 19.

The circle’s president, Milton Diaz-Canter, emphasized the importance of the day to preserve the history of the Caribbean nation and the work of the Cuban Revolution.

For his part, the organization’s vice president, Miguel Fernandez, described Bacallao as a martyr of Cuban radio and television, who died on October 19, 1985, during an ambush in Angola, while carrying out an internationalist mission.

Fernandez stated that the commemoration will pay tribute to journalists who lost their lives while on missions both in Africa and in other regions of the world.

He announced that, in future editions, this initiative will be extended to all of the country’s provinces, and recognized the importance of uniting all of the nation’s war correspondents and sharing their stories.

The commemoration will include a posthumous tribute to the recently deceased correspondents, the reopening of a historic seat at Radio Reloj—the station where Bacallao worked before leaving as a correspondent for Africa—and the presentation of literary works by Jose Antonio Fulgueiras, winner of Jose Marti National Journalism Prize.

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