Antonio Demetrio Moltó Martorell

Bachelor of Social Sciences. He began practicing journalism in 1967. He was Vice President of UPEC and director of the International Institute of Journalism "José Martí". Founder and  host of the program Hablando Claro, on Radio Rebelde. At this station he served as director of Editorial Policy and directed the program Haciendo Radio. He worked at the CMKC station in Santiago de Cuba. He was deputy general director of ICRT.

He held various positions at the newspaper Tribuna de la Habana. He was a jury member for the "José Martí" and "Juan Gualberto Gómez" awards. He was a leader of UPEC in the eastern region and participated in the training of journalists in that territory. He completed journalistic missions abroad. Elected President of the Union of Journalists of Cuba in 2013. He received the "José Martí" and "Juan Gualberto Gómez" awards.

Born in Santiago de Cuba, to parents who were a stonemason and a homemaker, from a young age Moltó began working as a construction assistant, retail clerk, and in a textile factory, postponing aspirations for higher education due to his family's financial difficulties.

Before the triumph of the Revolution, he collaborated with the 26 of July Movement, participated in protests and demonstrations, attended the funeral of the young martyr Frank País García, and took part in the strike of April 1958. After the triumph of January 1959, he was a founding member of the Association of Rebel Youth and of other organizations such as the National Revolutionary Militias, CTC, and the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution.

In the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations (ORI) he held different positions at the base level, and when the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution were created in Santiago de Cuba, he moved to professional work in that organization and became regional coordinator. He also participated in four people's sugarcane harvests, agricultural work, currency exchange, nationalizations, literacy and polio vaccination campaigns, and situations of combat alert during imperialist aggression at Playa Girón, the October Crisis, changes in North American governments, and others.

In 1970 he joined the Communist Party of Cuba. His initial links with the revolutionary press began through propaganda work in the CDR of the old province of Oriente. In 1967 he began working at the then Cuban Institute of Broadcasting, as a journalist, head of news closing, and director of the news program at the CMKC station, provincial network of Santiago de Cuba. He was also deputy director of ICR in Oriente, director of the Tele Rebelde newscast and radio information services, until in 1975 he was promoted to the national organization as deputy general director and later vice president in charge of news.

In 1967 he joined the Union of Journalists of Cuba, where he became secretary general of the South Oriente provincial delegation. Together with colleagues from the newspaper Sierra Maestra and the Faculty of Humanities, he worked on the preparation and launch of Journalism studies at the University of Oriente, while from ICR he promoted the first provincial school of radio journalism in that territory.

He was also provincial president of UPEC in Havana, during a time when he served as head of news closing at the newspaper Tribuna de La Habana. From the III Congress of UPEC onward, he was part of the National Secretariat of the organization. In 1999 he was elected to join the professionalized team of the national Presidency of UPEC and was put in charge of the front for the improvement and training of journalists. Later he was director of the International Institute of Journalism José Martí, until his election as President of UPEC at the 9th Congress held in 2013.

He completed his university studies by graduating as a Bachelor of Social Sciences from the "Ñico López" Superior School of the Party. His experience as a manager and communications professional led him to be assigned to lead important news coverage by ICRT, such as the first two congresses of the Communist Party of Cuba, the Soviet-Cuban space flight, and other national and international events. For several years he also headed the jury of the National Journalism Awards, and for his career trajectory he received numerous decorations, including the Key to Santiago de Cuba, his native land which he always carried with great pride.

Radio Rebelde has had Antonio Moltó within the production teams of emblematic informative and debate programs, such as Haciendo Radio, where he was general director, and Hablando claro, for more than twenty years. 

Antonio Moltó spared no effort, even at the cost of his health and his time, to maintain unity, the professionalism of the profession, its ethical performance, and the dignification of this work.

He was the recipient of the following decorations:

National Journalism Award José Martí

Annual Journalism Award Juan Gualberto Gómez.

National Radio Award 2016

Replica of the Machete Mambí of Generalissimo Máximo Gómez

Moltó died in Havana, at the age of 74, victim of cancer on August 15, 2017.