Herbert Matthews ..... Hero Or Villian?

BY; Heidi Liebert and Jared Gardner

                               Herbert Matthews                   Fidel Castro

Herbert trekked into the Sierra Maestre located in south-eastern Cuba, in 1957. He discovered and interviewed Fidel Castro. Which proved that Fidel was still alive. Herbert received a love-hate relationship from the people. Some people sympathized Herbert because he told of Castro's non-communist revolutionary plans. While other people claimed that Matthews worked towards communism, once Castro's plans turned for the far left. It so far that it was considered rigid and communistic. DePalma, which was New York Times correspondent, tells the career of Matthews and dismissed many of the myths that surrounded his interviews with Castro and his subsequent reporting on the Cuban revolution. Herbert L. Matthews didn't invent Castro, as he initially claimed with self-regard. As DePalma suggests, Castro's charm and will to power were such that he most likely would have triumphed without Matthews's notorious articles turning him into a romantic hero. On a separate note, the rabid Cuban exiles who continue to revile the reporter nearly 30 years after his death simply wanted to shoot the messenger.

• Herbert was born in 1/10/1900 in new York.
•  He died 7/30/77.
• He received his education at the Columbia University.
• He wrote several books that included Return To Cuba, The Cuban Story, and more.