Enrique Meneses (Madrid, 1929). He has been a correspondent in the Middle East and India for many years, director of the TVE programme A todo plana, CEO of ABC, Las Américas and the Spanish edition of Playboy, creator and director of Los Aventureros on Radio Nacional, besides working for Life and Paris-Match. A teacher of photojournalism, he was the first reporter to go up to the Sierra Mestra with Ché Guevara and Fidel Castro during the Cuban Revolution, and he has been in many conflict areas: Suez, the Balkans, etc.
He has published the following books: Fidel Castro (1966), Nasser. El último faraón (1970), La bruja desnuda (1976), Seso y Sexo (1979), Escrito en carne (1981), Una experiencia humana… Robinson en África (1984), José Luis de Vilallonga (1992), Castro, empieza la revolución (1995), África, de Cairo a Cabo (1998) and Hasta aquí hemos llegado, memorias (2006). He is considered a pioneer and an example for all war reporters today.
LiberPress Award 2007
The LiberPress Award was given to him for a long career in which he has always stood out for his independence and humanitarian values and for the defence of human rights, with no desire to be a “star reporter”, using his experience to train a generation of great independent reporters; and because he has been an objective, profound, critical and elegant witness of all the great events taking place in the world.