ABSTRACT
In 1896 Cuban insurgents desperately sought to throw off the yoke of their mother country, Spain, and forge a new nation. After the United States press discovered Evangelina Cosio y Cisneros, William Randolph Hearst began a letter-writing campaign for her freedom. The press in the US drew on perspectives of Cuban freedom fighters and the wishes of US policy makers to tell the story of Cuba. US newspapers, particularly Hearst's and Pulitzer's, saw their role as keeping readers abreast of what was happening in Cuba, just as a Spanish-American conflict loomed. The Cuban press relied heavily on accounts of events in US newspapers to tell its readers what was going on in Cuba in the weeks leading up to the Spanish-American War. The articles about Evangelina Cisneros yield information about a cultured young woman in Cuba in the late nineteenth century.
