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I Remember Cuba
Growing Up American-Cuban
A Memoir of a Town Called Banes
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Jack Skelly
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Jack Skelly is the most experienced newspaperman in the United States writing and commenting on Cuba. Born in the Dominican Republic of American parents, he moved to Cuba in 1927 and grew up in Oriente Province where his father was a manager for United Fruit’s sugarcane operations. Skelly graduated from high school in Baltimore and attended George Washington University in Washington. He began covering national news stories in college in 1948, joined the Washington Star in 1951 as a copy boy and cub reporter. He reported for the Washington bureau of United Press on Cuba and Latin America from 1956 to 1959, making many trips to cover the anti-Batista revolution, including interviews with Batista himself, and later Castro.
“I arrived in Havana by air taxi Jan. 2, 1959, on assignment for UP,” Skelly tells Insight, “and watched Fidel Castro with his son at his side, on a Sherman tank, roll into Havana. I watched it on TV at the home of Castro’s former wife, Mirta Diaz Balart, mother of Fidelito. She and the Diaz Balart family were our neighbors in Banes, Oriente, Cuba for almost 20 years.”
Skelly also adds some further twists of circumstance: “General Batista was from my hometown, Banes. My father knew him well. When Castro married Mirta in October 1948, my sister Marjorie, who had taught her English, was a member of the wedding. Castro’s home was 35 miles away from Banes. I first heard of him in 1945 and met him for the first time in August 1949 when he spent a month at his in-law’s beach house, which was close to ours.”
Skelly later served as the Washington bureau chief for the Latin American Times and Washington correspondent for the San Juan, Puerto Rico, daily El Nuevo Dia. He has traveled in virtually every Latin American country, covering such stories as the Honduran-Nicaraguan border war and the landing of the U.S. Marines in the Dominican Republic in 1966. Skelly has been a member of the National Press Club for 45 years.
By James P. Lucier
Insight Magazine
January 25, 1999 |
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