rain this morning brought me memories of my student days, one of those evenings when, as I said Sabina, sitting in a circle, merendabamos kisses and joints, and the hours passed quickly ... between smoke and laughter and conversation "intrinsic" (it is theft from the catchword Morancos) about life, love and revolution. For by that time I believed in the revolution, and the table of my apartment revolutionary student (paid by the sweat of my father, who never understood this mania of mine wanted to know more) books piled revolutionary, revolutions and homelands.
One of them was "those who fight and those who mourn" Jorge Ricardo Masetti, referring both to his career as staff, for those who wanted to change the world. (meant in the power bar) This book is the result of his own experiences as a reporter in the battlefield of Sierra Maestra, which in the form of a collection of chronicles became a poignant testimony to the liberator who lived in Cuba.
The book tells the story of Fidel in the Sierra, in 1958 enters, alone in the maze Batista comes through dark channels that little piece of jungle where a handful of bearded starving are changing history and discover this fantastic gallery of heroes, Camilo, Barbarossa, Che, Ramirito, which so impressed and whose image and likeness wanted to model, and modeled his life. When it comes down from the Sierra to Havana, he learns that no one has received their reports transmitted by the rebel radio station. You will move back into the Sierra, repeat all the work, and when he leaves for the second time has seen action, has wielded the gun and holds the rank of lieutenant in the revolutionary army. The book that once wrote, "Those who fight and those who mourn" is the gripping testimony of that feat and a turning point in the lives of Cubans.
The following is the preface to the book Jorge Ricardo Masetti:
Two Cubas: the one created for export and true, that struggle to be fully a republic.
The first, making the drama in picturesque Caribbean with promoted sergeants to generals and presidents fantastically rich living in exile to promote revolutions. La Habana Cuba v writes, for better identification of aliens who will dance the rumba, and only has the voice of maracas and bongos. The Cuba of the signs of airlines with tan dancers dancing naked around a tree. The Cuba Free conceivable only mixed with Coca-Cola and tropical climate conditioning for English speaking tourists. And there is another Cuba, who managed by dint of heroic acts and mangled corpses scandal, jump the wall of bags of sugar and show the world that the stridency of the cha cha cha could not cover their cries of indignation. Marti the island was occupied by a people who fought doggedly to recover violent and he had earned by winning their independence. He had achieved his revolution not a revolution more in the Caribbean, but it became the symbol of what can the will to be free of oppressive machinery of a dictatorship. However, it had to find out what is hidden, if something is hiding behind this formidable movement.
Against all expectations, despite the violent repression, overcoming the terror sown with Bounty of millionaire murderer, the Cuban revolution could not be suppressed and filed. The men, led by Fidel Castro, had remained too long on the battlefield and the publicity had made the fight was sufficiently profuse to arouse suspicion.
confess that I left Buenos Aires full of doubts. My take on Batista was formed, of course. But we had to find out who were trying to flip it and what interests responded.
The only way to know, to clear the questions that always left open to the news wires, to know whether or not the cause of the July 26 Movement deserved adherence of those who wanted freedom in Latin America, was to go to Fidel Castro and clearly articulated questions that we did here.
Argentines wanted to know who was the man who led the revolution in Cuba, which was the 26th of July Movement, which had aspirations and who financed it. We wanted to know if the bullets that were fired against Batista were paid in dollars or rubles or in sterling. Or if it was in Latin America the puzzling exception of a revolution going on to success was not funded by the people. "
journalist born May 31, 1929 in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires.
His first connection with politics is through anti-imperialist nationalism accent, so it enters the Nationalist Liberation Alliance in 1945, which also militated Rodolfo Walsh, leaving rows of it, when it takes on a character American pro
In '47, makes his first jobs as a chronicler of general information in the newspaper Tribuna. A year after working in the newspaper La Epoca, and then Graphic News, Democracy and The World. Arrives to take charge of the foreign policy section of the radio news World news editor and be on Channel 7, between 1953 and 1954 leads a day in Tandil. In this also directed last year, the Journal of the Association of Argentine teachers for six months.
After completing his military service at age 21, marries Dora Clelia Jury on July 31, 1952 and they have two children Grace and George.
In 1958 he traveled to Cuba, sent by Radio El Mundo, to interview Fidel and Che in the Sierra Maestra.
In January 1959 he returned to Cuba with his wife and children, invited by the Che. Participate in "Operation Truth." He founded and directed in June of that year, Prensa Latina, the first independent news agency that arises to break the monopoly of information. "We are objective but not neutral, because can remain impartial between good and evil ... "said Masetti.
she managed to collaborate on the best of the intellectuals of the time, Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Waldo Frank, Wright Mills, Gabriel García Márquez, Rodolfo Walsh, Urondo Paco, Juan Carlos Onetti, among many others. In the mid-'60s
leaves his wife and joins his secretary with whom Dumont Concepcion has a daughter, Laura. In the early 61
product of infighting resignation to the direction of Prensa Latina.
During the Bay of Pigs invasion, Fidel's request, returned briefly to the direction of the agency. Subsequently involved interrogations mercenaries.
Since his departure from Prensa Latina, his post fight will be closely related to Che's revolutionary plans.
leave for Algeria, from late 1961 until the early months of '62, where he worked with the Algerian National Liberation Front, accumulating experiences that will be shaping as a future rebel leader. Averaging
1963, Masetti will be the "Commander Second" in front of the People's Guerrilla Army (EGP) to act in Salta in northern Argentina. The guerrilla group is infiltrated and subsequently derrotado.El April 21, 1964 went into the jungle in Oran (Salta, Argentina) and did not return to salir.Tenía 34.
Today, crying, I admit I should have kept fighting.
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