Rewarding the Dictator

A press champion This week in Cuba: Cuban officials have declined to renew a reporting visa for a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, Gary Marx, saying that his stories have been "negative." The reporter has been ordered to leave Havana pronto. And...bedridden dictator Fidel Castro has received a press freedom...
By Chuck StrouseFebruary 22, 2007
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A press champion

This week in Cuba: Cuban officials have declined to renew a reporting visa for a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, Gary Marx, saying that his stories have been “negative.” The reporter has been ordered to leave Havana pronto.

And…bedridden dictator Fidel Castro has received a press freedom award. Um. Uh. I guess…in the bizarro world. Maybe the Latin American group that gave Castro this award should talk to, oh, one of the two dozen journalists in Cuban jails? Just a thought.

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Chuck Strouse is the former editor in chief of Miami New Times. He has shared two Pulitzer Prizes and won dozens of other awards. He is an honors graduate of Brown University and has worked at newspapers including the Miami Herald and Los Angeles Times.

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