He died just over a month ago at the age of 84. He worked for various media outlets in the capital, became director of the popular Radio Reloj, and held management positions in the newly founded Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC).

In 1968, he joined the Latin American News Agency Prensa Latina, heading the photography department, and in 1970, he participated in a conference of print agencies from socialist countries.

Later, he replaced Prensa Latina correspondents in Bulgaria, the then German Democratic Republic, India, and Czechoslovakia, eventually becoming Vice President of News for a news-intensive decade.

A professional with a broad general culture, he became one of the leading experts on the Non-Aligned Movement and its summits. At the Sixth Conference in Havana (1979), he led the Prensa Latina team that produced a well-documented reference book for all delegates, according to his friend and colleague Roberto Molina.

It was in India that the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) attempted to recruit him to betray his country and spy against Cuba.

In 1987, Cuba revealed on national television that 27 alleged agents—including Edel—trusted by the CIA were actually members of Cuban State Security. For years, they sent false information to the United States, causing the greatest disaster in the Agency’s history.

He, who suffered from several ailments simultaneously, ended each day with this joke: “I know I’ll die at some point, but I’m going to endure until the last day.” And so it was.

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