Posted on 11/05/2014 12:47:39 AM PST by Olog-hai
An Associated Press photographer in Cuba, Franklin Reyes Marrero, has died in a car accident while returning from an assignment west of Havana.
Reyes, 39, was driving from the port of Mariel on Monday after working on a story about the Cuban economy. He apparently hit a patch of gravel and lost control of his car, which crossed into oncoming traffic and collided with another vehicle, police and medical officials said. They said he died at the scene. […]
Reyes is the fourth AP journalist killed on assignment this year. …
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Havanacide?
Report: Roads in poor shape.
Fixed the headline.
That’s sad news considering the Democrat party also just got into a wreck. A huge train wreck.
If he was reporting the truth in Cuba (sometimes you have the rare journalist with integrity or gaining integrity), then only from the perspective of the Castro regime would he have been a propagandist. He was just finishing up a story on the Cuban economy, remember.
To point out what should be obvious, accidents happen even in Cuba.
Yes. Good call and my apologies. The AP is terribly tainted, however.
eff em.....
You are a BAAAAAAAD boy................................
RIP.
Two autos? Head on? Probably built prior to seatbelts.
The island is a car museum.
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