The Washington Post, April 25th, 2000
The picture will take a long time to forget: the commando pointing an MP-5 submachine gun at a 6-year-old boy and the fisherman who had plucked him from the sea. (An Italian American, by the way, hardly the anti-Castro Cuban so caricatured by the press.) For its drama, immediacy and truth, that picture has undoubtedly already won next year's Pulitzer Prize. But it could not earn a place on the front page of the New York Times. Then again, the New York Times has a long history with Castro going back to the 1950s, when its Cuba correspondent, Herbert Matthews, assured the world that Castro was n...
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