HAVANA, Cuba.- A floral offering on behalf of the President of the Councils of State and of Ministers Raul Castro Ruz presides in the Press House in Vedado, a posthumous tribute to Antonio Molto, President of the Union of Journalists of Cuba, UPEC, who died this Tuesday.

Relatives, friends, workers of the Cuban press and institutions linked to UPEC work incorporated to the homage, which happens in unison in all the headquarters of the organization in the country.

The Press House was a small place to welcome the professionals of the sector, who together with relatives and friends, spoke of that man described as fair, wise and of all.

At the ceremony, which occurred simultaneously across the country, Aixa Evia, vice-president of UPEC, said the greatest homage to Molto will be in the coming months, on the way to the tenth Congress, “to the extent we manage to keep their ideas alive and be faithful to his ability to agglutinate.”

Hevia added the ability to dream never left Molto and pointed out that “it´s up to us to never lose his ability to unite us and get excited in the most critical moments.”

Argentine Juan Carlos Camaño, president of the Latin American Federation of Journalists, highlighted Molto ‘s commitment to the new generations.

To Moltó, Rosa Miriam Elizalde highlighted, “our guild was not only that of the professionals in exercise, he was the man who cared about retirees, the disabled, the sick, the forgotten.”

Antonio Molto, who died at 74, was elected in 2013 as president of UPEC for his qualities as a human being, revolutionary and professional with more than 50 years of work.