''Prensa Libre'' was a newspaper published by Sergio Carbó in Havana, Cuba, from 1941 to 1960. ''Prensa Libre'', a daily publication in

Havana Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.

, was the largest daily newspaper in Cuba. The newspaper was occupied and confiscated on May 16, 1960, by the Cuban government. Co-editors Ulises Carbó and Humberto Medrano, as well as Sergio Carbó, went into exile after the ''Prensa Libre'' was seized.

Honors and awards

*IAPA-Mergenthaler Award. (1959)

Other publications

When ''Prensa Libre'' wrote critically about the suppression of ''

Diario de la Marina ''Diario de la Marina'' was a newspaper published in Cuba, founded by Don Nicolás Rivero in 1832. ''Diario de la Marina'' was Cuba’s longest-running newspaper and the one with the highest circulation. Its roots went back to 1813 with ''El Luc ...

'' and the imminent loss of freedom of the press in

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, it too was seized by the government. Revolutionary mobs, incited by the frenzy of the moment, calling for execution of all the editors who opposed Castro and his Revolution. One by one, Cuban newspapers ceased publication. Only government-controlled publications, like ''Revolución'', ''El Mundo'', ''Bohemia'', and the communist ''Hoy'' were allowed to publish but even they were eventually phased out. After the firm establishment of the regime and the supremacy of the Communist Party, only '' Granma'' the official organ of the Cuban Communist Party, was allowed to exist.Dr. Miguel A. Faria Jr.
Cuba in Revolution--Escape from a Lost Paradise
Hacienda Publishing, Macon, GA, 2002, pp. 260-261

References

External links

''Prensa Libre''
available as Open Access in the

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, from the collections at the National Library José Martí
Holdings of ''Prensa Libre''
at the

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