Reporting the Cuban Revolution reveals the untold story of thirteen
American journalists in Cuba whose stories about Fidel Castro's
revolution changed the way Americans viewed the conflict and
altered U.S. foreign policy in Castro's favour. Between 1956 and
1959, the thirteen correspondents worked underground in Cuba,
evading the repressive censorship of Fulgencio Batista's
dictatorship in order to report on the rebellion led by Fidel
Castro. The journalists' stories appeared in major newspapers and
magazines and on national television and radio, influencing
Congress to abruptly cut off shipments of arms to Batista in 1958.
Castro was so appreciative of the journalists' efforts to publicize
his rebellion that on his first visit to the United States as
premier of Cuba, he invited the reporters to a private reception at
the Cuban Embassy in Washington, where he presented them with
engraved gold medals. While the medals revealed Castro's perception
of the correspondents as like-minded partisans, the journalists
themselves had no such intentions. Some had journeyed to Cuba in
pursuit of scoops that could rejuvenate or jump-start their
careers; others sought to promote press freedom in Latin America;
still others were simply carrying out assignments from their
editors. Bringing to light the disparate motives and experiences of
the thirteen journalists who reported on this crucial period in
Cuba's history, Reporting the Cuban Revolution is both a masterwork
of narrative nonfiction and a deft analysis of the tension between
propaganda and objectivity in the work of American foreign
correspondents.
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