Miozotis Fabelo is National Radio Prize 2021

August 17, 2021

Since she was a young girl fresh out of the classrooms of the University of Oriente, Miozotis Fabelo Pinares has dedicated her youth and the best of her life to thinking about how to do better journalism, and to building it by honoring those who create good human work and criticizing those who choose otherwise.

They have just awarded her the 2021 National Radio Prize, a synthesis of extensive outstanding professional endorsement, where she combines refined journalism and artistic work that masterfully exploits dramaturgy, music, and sound effects.

As veteran radio broadcaster Pedro Paneque Ruiz has commented, Miozotis "knows how to use even silence" in her journalistic composition, immersed day by day in the news spaces of Radio Rebelde, of which she is correspondent in Camagüey, and in Radio Cadena Agramonte (RCA), her other station, where the nomination for this recent award was born.

Multi-awarded in national contests and foreign competitions; unique in Cuba and in the Central American and Caribbean region for obtaining on two occasions—1998 and 1999—the Henry Dunant Prize for Journalistic Excellence from the International Red Cross as screenwriter and director of documentary and testimonial genres; accomplished union leader and member of the Union of Journalists of Cuba, she has obtained various awards and recognitions from social organizations and the Central Organization of Cuban Workers, the most recent being the Lázaro Peña Order of the First Degree, as well as the highest award of the UPEC, Juan Gualberto Gómez, for work of the year on two occasions, and the Ana Betancourt distinction from the Federation of Cuban Women.

She, who has also fulfilled an internationalist mission in Honduras and Venezuela, humbly confesses that she does not work for that purpose, but rather to bring listeners a product that approaches excellence. Examples of that nature are maintained in the programming of the national station born in the Sierra Maestra itself and of RCA, where she took her first steps in 1982, practical experience combined with theory, which she has transmitted to journalism students at the Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz University of Camagüey, of whose faculty she was one of the first members in 2006.

This journalistic vision she knows how to use to recreate stories, momentous events from the life of El Mayor, his love with Amalia Simoni; of our National Poet Nicolás Guillén; of José Martí; of Mella and his relationship with Camagüey through his wife Olivín and his daughter Natacha; in the section Following Fidel's Footsteps…

When asked about the formula for her reports to be heard every day on Rebelde and to collaborate with Cadena Agramonte, even in such complex spaces as Reportaje, lasting almost half an hour, the result of exhaustive investigations, her answer is simple: "By working, studying, investigating, reading a lot to keep us updated, learning from young people and taking advantage of new technologies. There is little time for rest".