Belatedly. Seems like yesterday, all those Cubans stood up against walls and shot on the orders of Che. But
he had time to do other things too;
June 16 marked 55 years since the start of the first experiment - in Latin America and the Caribbean - of an international news agency [Prensa Latina] not manipulated by the United States.
On this date...Argentine journalist Jorge Ricardo Massetti and a small group of Latin American and Cuban reporters embarked upon a journey across the seas of information, committed to reporting with the strictest truthfulness and honesty.
....Renowned journalists and intellectuals from Cuba and Latin America immediately joined the struggle for press freedom. Gabriel García Márquez, Sergio Pineda, Jorge Timossi and many other exceptional figures of journalism and Latin American literature were part of the central news staff or worked as correspondents on this and other continents.
Cuban journalists, such as Pedro Martínez Pírez, Gabriel Molina and Manuel Yepe, also joined them. Ernesto Che Guevara was always well-informed on the agency’s work.
Oh, undoubtedly, he was.
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