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He was an Argentinean journalist, writer a and an revolutionary man. He was born on May 31st, 1929.He started doing journalism since he was 15. At the end of 1957 he met a group of exiled Cuban revolutionaries in Argentina and a friendship started. He decided to come to Cuba next year. It was when he was working as a reporter at the radio station El Mundo de Buenos Aires. Once in Cuba he manages to go to Sierra Maestra and interviews Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara. He alternated his journalist work with his rifle. He returns to Argentina with his aims fulfilled, he has the interviews and reports with him. Through conferences, radio and television programs as well as a book titled: Los que luchan y los que lloran (The ones who fight, the ones who cry), which is a compilation of testimonies about the Cuban liberation process; he let the world know about his reports. Massetti is invited to come to Havana by Ernesto Che Guevara once the Revolution has triumphed. He arrived in Cuba eight days after and worked on the organization of a journalist’s international meeting. Proves of the crimes committed by the dictatorial regime of Fulgencio Batista were presented there. The idea of creating a Latin American informative agency to reflect the problems of the peoples of the continent emerged from that meeting. Massetti was asked to organize this agency. He, who was 30 years old, was officially announced the general director of the Agency Prensa Latina on June 7th, 1959. Transmissions outside the country started on June 16.
He was born on November 10th in 1911, in Santiago de Cuba. He was an outstanding professor, critic, writer, journalist and historian of the Cuban literature. He had a long and productive life. He wrote the anthology, the preface and notes of Contemporary Cuban Stories published in Mexico the preface and compilation of Maceo´s thinking and the essay Historical outline on Cuban arts, a work that was translated into several languages . He died on March 18th in 1996, in Havana.
He was born in Havana on August 3, 1921. His training as a musician was self-taught. An engineer by profession, he stood out in the field of music as a composer and guitarist. Because of his values as a person, he won the respect and affection of all those who knew him. He belonged to the Filin movement and his early influences were very diverse. He died in Havana on November 22, 2008.
He was born in Havana on March 7, 1851. He was a first year medical student at the University of Havana who was involved in the events that culminated in the tragic execution of the eight medical students.
He was born in the city of Bayamo, then Oriente province, on March 18, 1827. He was one of the many Bayamo patriots who had an impact on the literary creations of his time. He was one of the creators of the first Cuban trova song, La Bayamesa, and dedicated all his talent to literature and journalism. He died in Havana on September 19, 1890.