Journalist Lázaro Barredo Medina Dies in La Habana

August 5, 2020

Journalist Lázaro Barredo Medina, who directed the newspaper Granma between November 2005 and October 2013, founder of the Mesa Redonda and regular contributor to Cubadebate, passed away due to a cardiovascular condition.

While very young he suffered a myocardial infarction that by miracle and through the work of lifesaving doctors he managed to overcome. A journalist by vocation and profession present in all the acts of his life, he then wrote for Juventud Rebelde, still convalescing, what may have been the first great first-person report with all the details of that extraordinary event.

He led the newspaper Granma for eight years, during which, on March 14, 2008, the newspaper gave birth to the section Letters to the Editor, as a higher level of connection with readers and their institutions.

In his work as a journalism professional he addressed different topics of national and international current events, standing out in the approach to economics and, particularly, the United States-Cuba dispute. He did so from the pages of Juventud Rebelde, when he was a correspondent in Matanzas, and later as subdirector of the youth publication.

He was vice president of the Union of Journalists of Cuba in 1986, columnist on international politics in the newspaper Trabajadores, and at present he worked for the magazine Bohemia. He was a prominent and regular panelist of the Mesa Redonda, from its founding until today.

Lázaro Barredo was a base delegate of People's Power and, from 1993 until the last legislature, he was elected as a deputy to the National Assembly of People's Power. He was also a delegate to the 6th Congress of the Party.

Lázaro Barredo was 72 years old at the time of his death.