La Habana, Cuba_ With deep regret, the Cuban Radio and Television Institute reports that Radio Reloj's director, Omayda Alonso Diezcabezas de Armada, died today in Havana at the age of 52, after a long struggle against cancer.

Graduated with a degree in Journalism in 1987, in the last ten years she assumed the direction of the radio station of the hour and the news with a high sense of responsibility and exemplary personal courage in the face of the disease that afflicted her.

Since her graduation at the University of Havana, she worked at Radio Reloj where she held different positions with an upward career that earned her multiple awards.

Militant of the Communist Party of Cuba, she carried out a mission in Guatemala, where she was sent to cover the performance of the Cuban Public Health Cooperators, a sector that she attended with special care during her reporter period.

From her experience in Guatemalan lands, she wrote the book "Del tocororo al quetzal", which tells the work of Cuban doctors and nurses.

As a reporter, she served in the coverage of important events inside and outside Cuba, such as the Summit of the 77 that met in Havana in December 2000, and a year later the Third Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Association of Caribbean States, held in Isla Margarita, Venezuela.

She obtained several union and professional distinctions, among which stand out the Medal Hazaña Laboral, which confers the CTC, and the Recognition to the Journalistic Merit, that grants the Cuban Radio.

For her dedication to Radio Reloj, where she spent her entire working life and devoted most of her vital efforts, she became a high example of a sense of belonging, sacrifice and dedication to all workers and cadres in the ICRT.

 

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