Culture, Science, ArtsJosé Pardo Llada, politician, cuban revolutionary. (Born: Sagua La Grande)

m0242Jose Pardo Llada (1923-2009) was a journalist, politician and Cuban revolutionary, Fidel Castro supporter, who then exiled in Colombia for 47 years. It was the most influential radio commentator in the Cuban Republic.

José Pardo Llada born in Sagua la Grande, city of the former province of Las Villas, on July 27, 1923 He studied at school Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Jesuits of his native city. Years later his father, who was a teacher, sent him to Havana to study law degree at the University of Havana. However, these studies did not conclude and began to dabble in journalism.

He became known after 1944, when the radio from CMK was commenting on a hurricane in Havana for three days without rest. “It was three days talking nonstop, having coffee with milk only, recalled the journalist Max Lesnik.

He was also a columnist for the magazine and newspaper Bohemia National Journal. Sharply criticized corruption in the government of Ramón Grau San Martín (1944-1948), which gave him great popularity. Soon your Newspaper Word space, transmitted by Radio Union, rose to the highest levels of hearing.
From the late 40s through the early 50s, Llada Pardo was the most listened to radio talk show in Cuba.

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He was an expert in politics and journalism, and close friend of Eduardo Chivas (1901-1951), leader of the Party of the Cuban People (Orthodox), candidate for President of Cuba. In the 1950 elections, Pardo managed to be elected to the House of Representatives by the Orthodox Party, reaching the highest number of votes a candidate to the Cuban Parliament during the republic, with 71,872 votes. This fact has been recognized by Fidel Castro in interviews with Ignacio Ramonet. Chibás committed suicide in 1951, during his Sunday program radio, feel discredited by the failure to demonstrate a serious indictment of a government minister Carlos Prio. Pardo was one of the speakers at the funeral.

At this time Pardo made ​​friendship with Fidel Castro. Often lunched together at the home of Pardo in the neighborhood of Vedado. On one of these occasions, the wife of Alonso Maria Luisa Pardo labor pains came, and it was Fidel who took her to hospital where she gave birth Luisa Maria Bernadette.

After the coup of Fulgencio Batista on March 10, 1952, Brown criticized the new regime in his popular radio programs. In response, its “word” was suspended 42 times and the same Pardo was arrested 27 times. However, advocated the peaceful form of struggle against Batista.

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After the triumph of the Revolution on January 1, 1959, Pardo throws himself to support the new government in radio. Drove a daily radio program at 1 pm, from January 1959 until March 1961 Pardo It was noted for his anti-Americanism. Castigated the United States policy towards the Cuban revolution, the United States accused of blowing up the Maine, to prevent the triumph Mambí in the War of 95 with his first American intervention in Cuba. Criticized them for their hostile position to the presidential candidacy of Bartolome Maso in the first elections held in Cuba in 1902 He attacked the American journalist Jules Dubois, critical of the revolution.

Qualified with the harshest epithets at anyone who was considered a traitor to the revolution. And when one of the speeches of Fidel’s people cried “Fidel, shake the bush,” meaning they got rid of those who were not so drastic, Brown endorsed the phrase, repeated in each program: “Fidel, shakes kills “.

However, Pardo was severely affected by the situation in which it was found.

On one hand, fiercely supported the revolution but did not like the turn that was taking toward communism. In his trip to the Soviet Union in November 1960, she collided with the reality of life in a communist country. Later claim in an interview with a Cuban journalist in 1988:
“The moment I decide to leave it have a dominant position. Castro had distinguished me. Upon returning from a trip to the Soviet Union, in November 1960, I did some criticism because, among other things, I was shocked to liter milk has the equivalent price of a dollar. that cost me a rebuke by some old communists. Though I must say, in all honesty, with many of them kept good relations, especially with Carlos Rafael Rodríguez. This I mention this without bitterness, as were events that occurred many years ago. ”

Without supporting communism and being criticized by Cuban communists, while Brown was accused by his radical communist support Castro. His daughter, who was attending the Sacred Heart school, run by nuns, was beset with these accusations. He also received death threats from the opposition.

Being aggressive spokesman for the revolutionaries, was under attack from the opposition. The July 9, 1960 at noon when his car waiting at the light change to green traffic light L and 19, Vedado, was machine-gunned from another car. He left the attack unharmed.

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Exile.

Without endure all this, Pardo decides to flee and leave everything. In March of 1961 was a trip to Mexico to interview leaders. It preparing to travel went to Ernesto Che Guevara, who was to give him the money for the trip. The Che authorized a very small amount of dollars, and said at parting:
“Pardito, I have the impression that you’re going to take off.”
Pardo was impressed, but this did not stop him. In Mexico defected. Now he was in the skin of both criticized as “traitors to the revolution.” In Cuba he was a traitor and a coward for allegedly fleeing to know that soon, the next month, the United States would launch the Bay of Pigs Invasion, which Pardo always denied.
Outside was accused of spying for Castro. Mexico and Spain denied asylum. In 1963 he went to Cali, Colombia, with the help of a friend and after a job as a journalist, where finally granted asylum. Here again begins his career as a radio journalist, becoming very popular with their programs.

However, chastened, Pardo now shunned politics, just trying social issues. Never touched the guerrilla movement or drug traffickers. Neither has entered or worked with any counterrevolutionary organization, though he was invited. Thus, neutral, he could stay and survive.

In the 70s and 80s could mobilize the population of Cali to different activities of the city. His “Mirador in the air” in Toledar, paralyzing the city program, expressing their love for the team Deportivo Cali, criticizing officials, or organizing demonstrations to civic campaigns. Apart from these radio and television, Pardo worked with Knitting magazine, El Tiempo, Caracol and daily West, where he had the ‘Thursday viewpoint’ column, which by its popularity lasted 44 years, a record.

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Its shares Become Sound famous, how to get a plane to place it in a playground, bring the American Olympic medalist Mark Spitz to swim at the opening of a poor school, or invent mecato festival with tastings of sweets in the population.
In 1974, Brown asked the Colombian citizenship, and President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen (president 1974-1978) was the gave. Then form the Civic Movement, with which it is running for mayor of Cali Party. Unsuccessful, but his strength had seven seats in the Council, being Pardo deputy department of Valle del Cauca, whose capital is Cali. He was a representative to the House.

President Belisario Betancourt (president 1982-1986) appointed Pardo as a diplomat, being ambassador in Colombia Dominican Republic and Norway.
One of his most famous actions was his famous resignation in the early 90s as presenter of the television program “Noticiero de las 7” in full submission to the air.

He received the Life Master Teachers Award in Journalism Award Alfonso Bonilla, Colombia.

In 2004 he returned to Cuba for the first time, after 43 years of exile. Visit Camilo Cienfuegos Clinic because we hardly saw. He traveled to Cuba to be, for the first time in half a decade. At the end of treatment, when I went to pay, she was told that higher order need not pay anything. Feeling nostalgia for the past, said that during his tours of Havana, crying frequently “as Blackberries” by emotions.

In August 2009 visit to his daughter Bernadette in America. Returning to Colombia, suffers bleeding in the esophagus and is hospitalized in Sebastian Belalcázar Cali Clinic. His condition was complicated by diabetes, gastrointestinal bleeding, chronic bronchitis. Finally, a heart attack ended his life, August 8, 2009, at 86 years of age.

The Cali Council yesterday issued Duel Resolution, which was read during his funeral.

Pardo always maintained his love for Cuba, and said to return from exile to Cuba:
“Returning to Havana I must confess it was the biggest thrill I felt in several years, Havana is so beautiful it can not destroy a revolution, not a hundred hurricanes, that’s privilege must have all Cubans living anywhere world. ”

He was the author of books like “Memoirs of the Sierra Maestra” (1960), “I rise” (1983), “Fidel and Che” (1988), “I remember” (1994) and “Santeria” (2001) .

Family.

He married in 1950 Maria Luisa Alonso, who died in 1980 The following year Pardo married Elsy Colombian engineer Calderón.

His daughter Bernadette Pardo (whose mother was taken to hospital to give birth by the same Fidel Castro) works as a journalist in Miami. In 30 years she has interviewed leaders such as Fidel Castro (1991, 1993,1994) and Barack Obama (2008).

Pardo also left a son, José Pardo Kroneman result of a romantic relationship.

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Arnoldo Varona, Editor.

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