The journalist from Avila, Yarelis Reyes Martínez, director of the municipal telecentre Morón TV, passed away on Sunday morning due to a heart attack, according to sources from that province.
Reyes was the founder of that municipal television channel, where she previously held the position of Deputy Director of Programming and News before becoming the General Director.
She began her career as a journalist in radio and television, eventually becoming the head of the youth and children’s editorial department at Radio Morón.
Friends and colleagues of the young woman have taken to social media to express their shock at Reyes' sudden passing.
"I received the news of the passing of my colleague Yarelis Reyes, director of TV Morón, with immense sorrow this morning. This is a great loss for the journalism community. My deepest condolences to her family, friends, and especially to colleagues Julita and Kenia," wrote Ariel González Guzmán, a journalist at the Primero de Enero correspondent for Televisión Avileña.
Another friend of Reyes, identified as Lázaro Efrén Álvarez De Ávila, a music researcher, recalled having served alongside Reyes on the management board of CMIX Radio Morón. He referred to her as a "great friend and sister."
"I always remember with unforgettable and heartfelt affection the attentions shown to me, which were always very warm and eloquent, and we always got along very well. She visited me on many occasions, and her voice was captured in many of my interviews and television reports for TV Morón and the province of Ciego de Ávila. Rest in peace, my dear friend and companion; I will remember you forever, especially since we would talk on the phone every two or three days about new projects and ideas. Rest in peace. I will never forget you, my cherished soul friend," she expressed on her social media profile.
Other messages are circulating in the comment sections of the posts, where state-run media and colleagues express their dismay at the untimely death of the journalist from Avilés.
The death of Yarelis Reyes Martínez adds to the losses faced by other colleagues in the journalism industry who have passed away this year, including young journalists like Yurislenia Pardo Ortega from Camagüey, who died in January.
Also, that of the Cuban journalist Magda Iris Chirolde López, who served as the editor-in-chief of the news programs for Canal Caribe of Cuban television, passed away in July at the age of 33.
A month earlier, in early June, the journalist and writer Pedro de la Hoz passed away in Havana at the age of 71, after a fierce battle with cancer.
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