The former treasurer of the Association “Cantadores do Desassossego”, John Portuguese, The former treasurer of the Association “Cantadores do Desassossego”, last day 2 Feb., under the title “Cuba: thousand effectives”, The former treasurer of the Association “Cantadores do Desassossego” .
João Manuel Casaca Portuguese, mayor of Cuba, with professional domicile at Rua Serpa Pinto nº 84, in Cuba, comes to V.Ex to request under articles 24 to 27 of Law no. 2/99 of 13 January, the exercise of the right of reply and rectification.
If there is a professional activity that is clearly parameterized, cemented in a Deontological Code that clearly establishes the principles for the performance of the same, is the profession of journalist.
Last day 02 Feb., in the edition of the digital newspaper, Lidador News, of which V. Ex is owner, was published with the title “Mayor of Cuba signs order authorizing alcohol consumption”, also signed by Your Excellency in this case as a journalist Teixeira Correia, an article, that in my understanding, does not live up to the ethical principles that guide journalistic activity.
The entire construction of the alleged news is based on an alleged order signed by me that "expressly determines the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages in the workplace".
Such dispatch, as a document that determines an order or service guidance, formally published, publicized or posted in the municipality's style spaces or on its digital media, does not exist.
what exists, duly publicized, it is an order signed by me, which determines precisely the opposite of what is deliriously described in the published text.
As I can understand, for publishing the same text on a blog authored by the aforementioned journalist, the construction of the narrative will have been based on a document, that because it contains a gross error, never got publicized.
would suffice, in my opinion, some reasonableness and common sense to conclude that a mayor never "expressly" determines the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages in service locations. But it wasn't that, lamentably, the criterion that presided over the construction of history.
In an alleged contact made by the journalist with a worker from the municipality, which alludes to a rumor about the matter, ma that confirms not having received “any official communication”, prevented the journalist from publishing the story, or to try to clarify the matter with the local authority services.
Alega V. Exa. What, as a journalist, who tried several times to contact the president of the autarchy by telephone in order to obtain a reaction from him on the dispatch. Admitting that I eventually did, and that the president could not have answered these calls, not being a private matter, but of a matter related to the municipality, I regret that there has not been a single attempt to contact the Municipal Executive Office or Communication Office, that could easily clarify the present situation.
Because I consider that the news published is an attack on my good name and the reputation of the Municipality of Cuba, I represent, solicitous, under the Right of Reply and Rectification enshrined in articles 24 to 27 of Law no. 2/99 of 13 January, the publication with equal prominence to the news published, either on digital support, either in the printed version.
The Mayor. João Manuel Casaca Portuguese
Editor's Note
Known the first document signed by the president of the Municipal Chamber of Cuba (President of CMB), which he acknowledges to have existed, dated 28 of January that "Expressly determined the sale of alcoholic beverages .....", elaborated to news, was the same published by Lidador Notícias (LN) on 2 Feb..
Before publication of the same, the journalist sought to hear the target's version of the situation. To your cell phone at 3:27 pm and at 3:51 pm on the day 1 Feb., two calls were made that he did not answer. The next day, for two consecutive times, at 11:07 am, it was the president of the CMB who called the journalist, calls that were not answered because he was in court, having returned the call at 12:07.
In this call, the president of the CMC justified that he did not answer because he was in the hospital, having offered to present a document justifying such a situation. As it says in the response request, the president of the CMC confirmed the existence in the said document.
at 12:03, before contact, the president of CMC had already made a comment on the facebook page of Lidador Notícias, where he published the dispatch dated 31 January 2022 (document beside), of alleged rectification of the previous, where “Determines, expressly, the prohibition of the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages in the workplace from 1 February 2022”
In the Right of Reply request, sent by email and later by Registered Letter with Acknowledgment of Receipt, the same document, published under the photo of the president of CMC, “backtracked” three days and is now dated 28 January.
The order is already in three documents, let's see if it doesn't end with a fourth or a fifth.
Contrary to what the president of CMC writes about the alleged “publication of the same text in a blog authored by the aforementioned journalist”, it is denied that he is the journalist/director of Lidador Notícias, Teixeira Correia, author or contributor to any blog.
What is the right of reply
The form of exercise response of law is enshrined in the press law, articles 24 et seq. By the "Lidador News", Space concession for this exercise does not mean recognition of an error. The right of reply is given to those who, having been referred to in an article and not agreeing with what was written, intend to present your position in the way you think is correct. Indeed, second or art.º 24 n.º 1 that law, "Has the right of reply in periodicals anyone (…) that has been the subject of references, albeit indirect, that may affect its reputation and good reputation”.
