GG Didn't greet Soviet Gromyko #1 (D.La Marina) 1949

On May 8, 1949, Havana's main newspaper Diario de la Marina published a scathing article on it's front page attacking Gustavo Gutiérrez for greeting and congratulating Andrei Gromyko on the General Assembly floor over a speech the Soviet Ambassador had just delivered. However, this was not the case. Gutiérrez was not present at the time. He was on the telephone with Havana and in the presence of other members of the Cuban delegation. The journalist for the Associated Press had made an error of misidentification. However, the Cuban daily viciously attacked Dr. Gutiérrez in a front page article and did not include the name of the journalist. When the associated Press apologized for the mistake, the Cuban paper, on the other hand, did not. It withheld the identity of the journalist, was slow in retracting its error and did so not to the satisfaction of Gutiérrez, his family and friends. Gustavo's daughters and son-in-laws jumped into the melee and began soliciting support from other newspapers, magazines and radio personalities.

This entry contains three of the four or five articles El Diario de la Marina published, below. The following entry contains Gutiérrez's five page press release correcting The Associated Press error. The third and final entry contains personal letters to Dr. Gutiérrez by three of his four daughters. During this scandal Gutiérrez was in Lake Success, New York with his wife where the United Nations was convening.