HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Cuba’s ruling Communist Party has, for the first time, named a woman as editor of its mouthpiece daily Granma, after sacking her predecessor for “errors”. 

  In a statement published in Granma today, the party named 34-year-old Yailin Orta Rivera, a member of the Young Communists national committee, to lead the newspaper.                              

 Orta Rivera had previously run Cuba’s other main newspaper Juventud Rebelde, which she joined after leaving university in 2006. Her rapid rise comes after Pelayo Terry Cuervo, 50, was axed as editor for what the party said were “errors committed in the exercise of his responsibilities”.

Among those errors is believed to be his failure to publish in full Vice-President José Machado Ventura’s speech marking the anniversary of the Russian revolution.                                                                     

The daily is named after the boat on which Fidel Castro, his brother and current president Raúl, and other revolutionary leaders arrived in Cuba to launch their revolution in 1956