# Lucía Sanz Araujo, director of Pionero magazine, dies from Covid in La Habana

**Date:** 03/14/2021

Once again Casa Editora Abril mourns, as the COVID-19 pandemic has just taken the life of our beloved colleague Lucía Sanz Araujo, despite her fighting like a warrior.

Founder of that institution, she devoted her professional life to children's and youth publications, and was currently serving as director of the magazine Pionero.

Disciplined, enterprising, an example of hard work, she was always in the front row and stepped forward for any task.

During her long professional career she received various awards and recognition for her performance.

The Union of Journalists of Cuba has expressed its sorrow for this deeply felt loss to Lucía's family, colleagues, and friends, who will always remember her for her strength, dedication, and unconditional commitment.

The Cuban Philatelic Federation has expressed: Yesterday we received the sad news of the death of a great friend of Cuban philately, Lucía Sanz Araujo.

Our beloved friend was a journalist at Casa Editora Abril and dedicated much of her professional work to the dissemination and research related to philately, having published two books and maintaining a regular section in the magazine Bohemia since 1985, which was a living heritage of Cuban philately.

The Cuban Philatelic Federation distinguished her with the philatelic merit for exceptional contributions and contributions in favor of the development of philately in the country.

Lucía delighted philatelists with her sweet character and her proverbial way of expressing herself; Cuban philatelists held her in deep affection and her irreplaceable loss causes us profound pain.

It may seem ironic that someone who throughout an entire year warned, advised, spoke and wrote about how to act to avoid contagion and the spread of the disease, should have died a victim of COVID-19. The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is like that, it attacks without discriminating who, where, or when.