Reviewed in the Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (May, 1969).
Enrique Meneses Miniaty - Nacido en Madrid, sus padres, originarios de la provincia de Palencia, procedían de familia de orfebres y plateros. Su padre era Enrique Meneses Puertas, periodista y director de la revista Cosmópolis —y autor de La cruz de Monte Arruit (1922) sobre el desastre de Annual— y su madre, Carmen Miniaty, hija de los condes de Miniaty, era una deportista pionera ganadora de varios trofeos de tenis. (…)En 1958 se desplaza a Cuba, donde se convierte en el primer reportero que convive, durante cuatro meses, con los revolucionarios cubanos en Sierra Maestra. Allí conoció a Fidel Castro y al Ché Guevara. Algunos meses antes de su salida de la isla, en donde estuvo preso de la policía de Batista durante una semana, consigue enviar su reportaje sobre la revolución cubana a la revista Paris Match. Dicho artículo causó gran sensación a nivel mundial.
Translation:
Enrique Meneses Miniaty was born in Madrid, his parents, originally from the province of Palencia, came from a family of goldsmiths and silversmiths. His father was Enrique Meneses Puertas, journalist and director of the Cosmopolis magazine —and author of La cruz de Monte Arruit (1922) about the Annual disaster— and his mother, Carmen Miniaty, daughter of the counts of Miniaty, was a pioneering athlete winner of several tennis trophies. (…) In 1958 he moved to Cuba, where he became the first reporter to live for four months with the Cuban revolutionaries in Sierra Maestra. There he met Fidel Castro and Ché Guevara. A few months before his departure from the island, where he was imprisoned by the Batista police for a week, he manages to send his report on the Cuban revolution to the magazine Paris Match. This article caused a great sensation worldwide.
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