Fidel castro mini biography of martin

This page is about Lionel Elliot Martin (1927 – 2019), an American journalist who lived in Cuba from March 1961 until his death in June 2019.

He worked as a foreign correspondent and freelance journalist for several news agencies, such as Reuters, Prensa Latina (Cuba), ABC (USA), BBC (UK), and CBC (Canada).  His feature articles, written and audio reports cover almost half a century of Cuban history following the victory of Fidel Castro’s rebel forces in1959, and are an objective chronicle of the political, economic and social everyday life on the island during those years.

 Some of the topics include the Literacy Campaign, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the 1962 Missile Crisis, the 1989 Drug Trials of General Ochoa, the Embargo, Cuban –American bilateral relations, several migratory waves including the Marieli