Martha Rojas

On Twitter, the President wrote: Marta Rojas, a woman of Letters and Revolution, exceptional witness and storyteller, since 'The Moncada Trial,' has gone. The heroine of Labor, she was a journalist and writer until her last breath. Her transcendental work is the memory of the nation.

Born in Santiago de Cuba in 1931, Rojas was an exceptional witness to the assault on the Moncada Barracks by Fidel Castro in 1953. She made a series of reports that were censored by the tyranny of Fulgencio Batista.

At the triumph of the Revolution, on January 1, 1959, she worked in Bohemia magazine, shortly after she joined the team of journalists of Revolución newspaper. When Granma newspaper, Official Organ of the Communist Party of Cuba, was created in 1965, she became part of its team.

In that newspaper, she was head of information, editorial, and culture pages.

She later covered President Fidel Castro's trips to Chile, other Latin American countries, and inside Cuba.

Marta Rojas was the first Cuban and Latin American war correspondent in the Vietnam war and leaves behind a literary work with six novels and several testimonial books.