Havana (AFP)
The Cuban State Council announced on Tuesday the replacement of the State Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT), created in 1962, with the aim of "promoting the culture of dialogue and consensus in the company".
The ICRT, the body that controls radio and television channels - all state-owned - will be replaced by an entity called "social information and communication".
The announcement comes just over a month after unprecedented anti-government protests in 40 Cuban cities, which left one dead, dozens injured and hundreds detained.
According to the decree, the decision is justified by "the absence of a body that directs and controls the system of social communication" on the island and with the aim of "promoting the culture of dialogue and consensus in Cuban society" .
On July 11, a group of young people demonstrated outside the ICRT headquarters in Havana, peacefully demanding 15 minutes in front of the cameras to explain the reasons for the protest.
But a group of people, including employees of the institute, denied them this opportunity.
The demonstrators were beaten and thrown in a garbage truck, then transferred to a detention center.
They were released the next day.
In Cuba, there is no law or ministry to manage the media, and information is regulated by the ideological department of the Communist Party (PCC, single party), while all legal media belong to the state. .
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