This is how the José Martí National Association of Cuban Residents in Brazil (ANCREB-JM) describes the news media, in an emotional congratulatory text sent to its correspondent in this capital on another anniversary of the journalistic enterprise.

Let us celebrate the saving continuity of a news agency that is neither sensationalist nor commercial, which is tied to the essence of true facts with the poor of the earth,’ an excerpt from the text from the ANCREB-JM noted.

It evoked ‘the talks between Yeyé (late Cuban revolutionary fighter Haydé Santamaría) and (late Argentine journalist Jorge Ricardo) Massetti, to honor the heroic and legendary paths of the essences in the beginnings that marked the creation and existence for almost 66 years of what would be and is this bastion’ of Prensa Latina.

The Cubans living in Brazil also pondered the forces and wills of the media, defying incessant and forceful hegemonic attacks in all their unimaginable variants.

Described as ‘the news agency that was needed,’ Prensa Latina, with nearly 40 correspondents around the world, has become a multimedia center of recognized journalistic influence.

Historians point out that Prensa Latina was created with a definite Latin Americanist imprint and its founder and first director (Masetti) described its editorial line as ‘objective, but not impartial,’ because one cannot be impartial in the face of good and evil, he emphasized.

Such Latin Americanist vocation was rooted in the early participation of outstanding journalists from the region, some of whom later achieved international prestige, such as Colombia’s Gabriel García Márquez, Uruguay’s Carlos María Gutiérrez and Argentina’s Rodolfo Walsh and Rogelio García Lupo, together with Cuban journalists like Francisco V. Portela, Juan Marrero and Gabriel Molina, among others.

Under the premise ‘at the service of the truth,’ Prensa Latina currently publishes its daily reports on a wide range of topics in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Italian and Russian.

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