Delegation of Prensa Latina visits and works with PAN

PANO - A delegation from Prensa Latina, Cuba’s Latin American News Agency, led by its President Jorge Legañoa Alonso, visited and worked with the People’s Army Newspaper (PAN) on December 4.

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Joining the delegation was Rogelio Polanco Fuentes, Cuban Ambassador to Vietnam.

Welcoming the delegation, Major General Doan Xuan Bo, PAN’s Secretary of the Party Committee and Editor-in-Chief, expressed his pleasure and honor to meet Comrade Jorge Legañoa Alonso again in Hanoi and was delighted that the PAN was among the agencies hosting the Prensa Latina delegation during their working trip to Vietnam.

Maj. Gen. Doan Xuan Bo speaks at the working session.

At the event, PAN’s leader introduced key milestones in the newspaper’s history, more than 75 years of establishment, development, and growth closely tied to the nation’s struggle for liberation, as well as the subsequent cause of national construction and defense, and to the building, combat, and development of the Vietnam People’s Army and the Vietnamese revolutionary press.

He stated that in the context of rapid social and technological changes, the PAN is accelerating innovation to meet mission requirements. The Government has designated the PAN as one of Vietnam’s core, multi-platform press and media agencies, playing a guiding role in shaping public opinion nationwide. Today, the PAN stands as one of Vietnam’s leading political newspapers, tasked with regularly and comprehensively disseminating information about the Party’s guidelines, the State’s policies and laws.

An overview of the working session

In the modern media landscape, the PAN continues to transform and pro-actively reach audiences through three key pillars, namely printed newspaper, online newspaper, and social media platforms. Notably, the PAN’s online edition, featuring Vietnamese-language content, a Video-Audio section, and five foreign-language versions (English, Chinese, Lao, Khmer, and Russian), is growing strongly. In the near future, the PAN will propose to the General Department of Political Affairs the development of a Spanish-language edition, given that Spanish is the world’s second most widely spoken language, used in more than 20 countries, including Cuba. General Bo shared that his working trip to Cuba three months earlier had left profound impressions of the heroic and resilient Cuban people.

For his part, President of Prensa Latina Jorge Legañoa Alonso expressed his delight at meeting Maj. Gen. Doan Xuan Bo again, and he highly valued the outcomes of the working session in Havana between the PAN’s delegation and Prensa Latina staff during the PAN’s visit to Cuba last September.

Prensa Latina President Jorge Legañoa Alonso speaking at the meeting

President Jorge Legañoa Alonso expressed his joy at having the opportunity to visit and work at the PAN headquarters. He was deeply moved by the warm, respectful reception, reflecting the strong bond of brotherhood between Vietnam and Cuba, and showing the appreciation that the PAN extends to Cuban journalists. He also praised the PAN’s growth and expressed hope that both sides would further strengthen disseminating information about the cooperation between the two countries, the two militaries, and the two press agencies. He emphasized that if approved by Vietnamese authorities, Prensa Latina would be ready to send experts to assist the PAN in refining language quality for a future Spanish-language edition.

At the meeting, Cuban Ambassador to Vietnam Rogelio Polanco Fuentes thanked the PAN for its warm reception. He also conveyed his gratitude to the Party and State of Vietnam for their support for the Cuban people under the “65 Years of Vietnam - Cuba Solidarity” program, and thanked the PAN for its active information dissemination efforts to help the program achieve the highest effectiveness.