Former
El País
director
Antonio Caño is no longer part of the Grupo Prisa staff.
As stated by the implicated himself, the journalist received a call this Wednesday from the Director of Talent Management, Marta Bretos, to announce his "imminent" and "fulminant" dismissal from the company where he has practiced his profession during the four last decades.
Caño, who directed the generalist newspaper Prisa between 2012 and 2014, was currently working as a digital advisor to the business group, a position without editorial responsibility, and had a monthly opinion box in
El País.
Articles in which he has always been critical of the current Government of Pedro Sánchez and which, according to his writing, have been censored by both the current director, Javier Moreno, and his predecessor, Soledad Gallego.
"I believe that this dismissal is for ideological reasons, illegal and unprecedented in the history of Prisa. During my time as director, all the previous directors had full freedom to express their opinions in articles and columns," says the 64-year-old veteran journalist, that points out that it is "an outrage against freedom of expression" and announces possible legal actions against his company.
However, from the editorial group, they point out that the dismissal is due to an organizational issue of the positions of power and deny that the dismissal of the former director is due to these causes.
In recent times, Caño is not the only worker close to the former president, Juan Luis Cebrián, to leave Prisa.
Augusto Delkáder was also relieved of his post as editorial director of the conglomerate a month ago.
Antonio Caño, after two years as an editor at Agencia Efe, began his career in the country as an expert in international journalism in 1982. At that stage, he covered the wars in the Persian Gulf, the invasion of the Malvinas, the uprisings in Chile against Pinochet and the fall of Sandinismo in Nicaragua. In 2006 he was appointed correspondent in Washington and later participated in the launch of the digital part of
El País
in Latin America.
In 2014 he was appointed president of the generalist newspaper, replacing Javier Moreno, against whom he issued a harsh report for the management he had carried out in recent months.
Moreno is precisely the one who now holds the direction of the newspaper in which Caño was the head of the newspaper until 2018 when Pedro Sánchez arrived at Moncloa and was replaced by Soledad Gallego Díaz
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