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News presenter denounces harassment and influence peddling at the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television

"The journalist and TV presenter of National Television, Yunior Smith Rodríguez, left Cuba and denounced some reasons why he decided to become an emigrant, among them influence peddling at the ICRT [Cuban Institute of Radio and Television].

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‘My journey began with disgust and bitter disappointment because of the experiences I lived through while at the Star Newscast, because of the bosses who pay with favors and privileges in exchange for sex; because of the sexual harassment from positions of power, an open secret that no one denounces out of fear,' said the journalist from somewhere on the border between Mexico and the United States.

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Smith referred to the existence of 'screen whores', cronyism and 'favouritism' at the ICRT."

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