Jorge Masetti

Jorge Masetti
Masetti (right) with Che Guevara (left)
Born
Jorge José Ricardo Masetti Blanco

(1929-05-31)31 May 1929
Avellaneda, Argentina
Disappeared21 April 1964 (aged 34)
Salta, Argentina
OccupationJournalist
Years active1958–1961
EraCold War
OrganizationPrensa Latina
Children1

Jorge José Ricardo Masetti Blanco (born 31 May 1929; disappeared 21 April 1964), also known as "Commander Segundo", was an Argentinean journalist and guerrilla leader. Born in Avellaneda, Masetti entered the jungle at Salta and after 21 April 1964 was not heard from again. He was the founder and the first director of the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina, and became the leader of one of Argentina's first guerrilla organizations, the Guevarist People's Guerrilla Army.


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