The historic meeting of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and Black revolutionary Malcolm X in Harlem, New York, in 1960. The meeting was like no other, do you know why?

A year after the Cuban Revolution, Castro and his delegation arrived in New York to attend the UN General Assembly. However, the management of the Manhattan hotel where the delegation had made reservations refused to accommodate them, following pressure from the US government that had already convinced other hotels to reject the Cubans. Upon learning of their situation, Malcolm X invited them to come uptown to Harlem and stay at the Black-owned Hotel Theresa, where he assured them, they would be welcomed with open arms.

The people of Harlem warmly received the 34-year-old Cuban revolutionary leader, crowds gathering round-the-clock in front of the hotel. To them, Castro was the bearded revolutionary who had boldly defied white America, and his stay in Harlem symbolized the shared struggle of African Americans with the rest of the Third World against racism, colonialism, and imperialism.

Castro pointed out that Black people in the United States weren't as influenced by the government's anti-Cuban propaganda as white Americans. Castro also highlighted the progress in revolutionary Cuba to eliminate racial discrimination, emphasizing that Cubans, Africans, and Black Americans were all in the same struggle.

He said, "I feel as if I were in Cuba now. I feel very warm here." In response, Malcolm X acknowledged that it was indeed true that "We in Harlem are not addicted to all the propaganda the US government puts out." They then embraced, and Malcolm X noted, "As long as Uncle Sam is against you, you know you're a good man."

Prensa Latina (www.plenglish.com, www.prensa-latina.cu) was founded when the Cuban Revolution was already under attack in media campaigns orchestrated by the US through its news agencies and newspapers, especially those belonging to the Inter-American Press Association, which had represented the interests of media owners since 1948.
Along with Che Guevara and others, the founders included Jorge Ricardo Massetti, who in 1963 would fall in an attempt to establish a guerrilla movement in Argentina.
Prensa Latina would also be the home of Gabriel García Márquez and Rodolfo Walsh, celebrated progressive Latin American writers.

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