Ernest Hemingway and writer George Plimpton when he visited Cuba to watch Castro’s henchmen murder people.
Ernest Hemingway would setup chairs and drinks and watch the murders. Plimpton did not report what he saw. He later became a abc ‘reporter’, did specials, became famous. Only much much later did he reveal the truth.
“After Batista’s flight, mass graves were opened all over the island, full of corpses with broken limbs or missing eyes; many victims had been burned, strangled, disemboweled, or buried alive. Police stations were found to contain torture implements, including handmade tools designed for pulling nails and teeth, electrical wires that could be inserted into ears, and “fire seats”—perforated metal thrones under which flames mutilated genitalia. When Castro asked Cubans for a show of support for Operation Truth, a million demonstrators gathered in Havana to demand more executions”
https://magazine.atavist.com/the-butcher-of-havana-cuba-che-castro-aclu/
“Visiting reporters, politicians, and movie stars lined up for their turn to witness an execution [of a Batista henchman], including the Hollywood matinee idol Errol Flynn, who was so shaken by the experience that he retched on a guard’s shoes.”
“Ernest Hemingway encouraged George Plimpton to witness an execution, because ‘it was important that a writer get around to see just about anything, especially the excesses of human behavior.’”