Prensa Latina [SEP] inception
Prensa Latina
Prensa Latina, legal name Agencia de Noticias Latinoamericana S.A. (Latin American News Agency), is the official state news agency of Cuba, founded in March 1959 shortly after the Cuban Revolution.
Overview.
In a speech by Fidel Castro in Santiago de Cuba in 1959, Castro denounced the United States media and instead favoured a Latin American service "written in our own language". The creation of the agency was similar to that of "Agencia Latina" founded by Juan Perón, to disseminate the government
) granted her an award for writing a series of articles about popular Cuban music. In an interview she says that her time in the journalism field, especially in the Culture department of "Prensa Latina," served as a way for her to reflect on feminism and gender inequality especially in the work place. Most of the people she worked with in the Culture department of "Prensa Latina" were women, while all her bosses were male. She also sees her career in journalism as being important in her formation as a