Prensa Latina

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Prensa Latina ( PL for short ) is a Cuban news agency . The legal name is: Agencia Informativa Latinoamericana SA

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history

Prensa Latina was founded in 1959, after the Cuban Revolution, on the initiative of Ernesto Che Guevara . The founder and first director was the Argentine journalist Jorge Ricardo Masetti . The founding tribe of journalists included Gabriel García Márquez , Rodolfo Walsh , Rogelio García Lupo and Carlos María Gutiérrez , among others .

On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the news agency signed a cooperation agreement with the socialist daily Neues Deutschland in July 2009 and reopened an office in Berlin to report from the German-speaking area. The agency had offices in East Berlin and Bonn until 1989. During the Cold War , Prensa Latina had numerous correspondent offices in its socialist brother states, most of which were closed after the collapse of the Eastern bloc and the subsequent economic crisis in Cuba.

On April 28, 2017, Prensa Latina reopened an office in the US capital Washington after a 50-year absence . In 1967 the then PL correspondent Francisco Portela was withdrawn from accreditation . It was not until diplomatic relations between Cuba and the USA were resumed in 2015 that Cuban journalists received work permits in the USA again.

Activity and corporate purpose

The main office is in Havana , Cuba . Prensa Latina has correspondent offices in 26 countries: three in Asia, two in Africa, five in Europe and sixteen in America and distributes an average of 400 messages a day in Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian and Russian.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lukas Böckmann: "I no longer believe in God". Catholic tradition and political theology within the Argentine guerrillas of the 1960s . Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute / Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook, No. 14 , 2015, p. 479-508 .
  2. ↑ Harald Neuber: Objective, not impartial In: M - Menschenmachen Medien , issue 8/9 2009, p. 29
  3. ^ Prensa Latina news agency back in Germany , Der Standard from July 24, 2009
  4. ↑ a b http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/152834.ein-blick-aus-lateinamerikanischer-perspektiven.html , Neues Deutschland from July 25, 2009
  5. ↑ Prensa Latina reopens its office in the United States after 50 Years. In: Prensa Latina. April 29, 2017, accessed April 29, 2017 .