Marie Sanz is currently the bureau chief of Agence France Presse (AFP) in Lima, Peru, covering also Chile and Bolivia. Over her 25-year career as a foreign correspondent for AFP, she has reported at length from Latin America, Africa, the United States and Europe. Her assignments have included political and economic stories, conflicts and international negotiations. Sanz has reported extensively on Cuba and its international relations, including Fidel Castro’s final years in power and his last visit to the United Nations in New York, the first papal visit to Cuba by Pope John Paul II, the Elian Gonzalez crisis and the “black spring” arrests and trials of dissidents and journalists in Havana. While at the Shorenstein Center, Sanz wrote about the changing relations between Cuba and the U.S. through the lens of the media.
The Persistent Advocate: The New York Times’ Editorials and the Normalization of U.S. Ties with Cuba
December 16, 2015
A paper by Marie Sanz, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (fall 2015) and senior correspondent for Agence France Presse, examines The New York Times’ editorials on U.S.-Cuba relations over the past five decades, and the role of the press in the restoration of relations between the two countries. Since 1961, The New York Times editorial board consistently
