Journalist Marina Mireles Dies
A funeral service will be held Monday for Marina Mireles, whose series of articles on Fidel Castro before he came to power succeeded in getting her banned from Cuba after Castro took over, has died of an acute viral infection.
The former correspondent and reporter for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and the Hearst Headline Service was 59 when she died Tuesday at Scripps Memorial Hospital.
Miss Mireles, who visited Cuba in its pre-Castro days, found Fidel Castro in his mountain hideaway shortly before he overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista. He granted her a series of interviews which when published drew his wrath.
She later wrote a series of articles on East Los Angeles that brought her a special award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews, wrote news for TV Station KMEX in Los Angeles and most recently had published El Informador, a bilingual newspaper used in schools throughout the United States.
Her funeral will be held at All Hallows Catholic Church in La Jolla.
Survivors include her husband, Vern MacPherson, four children, her parents, a sister and a brother.
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