Jorge Ricardo Massetti was its founder director. Prensa Latina is an agency which has served the Third World peoples interests,  and particularly of Latin America, for more than 60 years. It has also done a remarkable job regarding the spreading of aspects related to the Cuban reality and the meaning of the Revolution´s work in the world.

Jorge Ricardo Massetti

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.