Remembering History: A beaming Fidel Castro decorating NY Times reporter Herbert Matthews with a medal during a visit to the NY Times offices in April, 1959. 'To our American friend Herbert Matthews with gratitude. Without your help, Cuba would never have been.' As Che Guevara said, 'Foreign reporters preferably Americans, were much more valuable to us at that time (1957-1959) than any military, much more valuable than recruits in our guerilla force, were American media reporters to expand our propaganda.

A beaming Fidel Castro decorating NY Times reporter Herbert Matthews with a medal during a visit to the NY Times offices in April, 1959. 'To our American friend Herbert Matthews with gratitude. Without your help, Cuba would never have been.' As Che Guevara said, 'Foreign reporters preferably Americans, were much more valuable to us at that time (1957-1959) than any military, much more valuable than recruits in our guerilla force, were American media reporters to expand our propaganda.

A beaming Fidel Castro decorating NY Times reporter Herbert Matthews with a medal during a visit to the NY Times offices in April, 1959. 'To our American friend Herbert Matthews with gratitude. Without your help, Cuba would never have been.' As Che Guevara said, 'Foreign reporters preferably Americans, were much more valuable to us at that time (1957-1959) than any military, much more valuable than recruits in our guerilla force, were American media reporters to expand our propaganda.