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Isaac 'Ike' Flores, longtime AP correspondent who covered Castro and Cuba, dies at 93
Flores covered Cuba as AP’s first resident U.S. correspondent after the Bay of Pigs and later wrote seven books.
- Isaac Flores, known as Ike Flores, was a longtime Associated Press correspondent who covered Cuba and met Fidel Castro after the Bay of Pigs invasion.
- Flores died on June 12 at an assisted living facility in Greensboro, North Carolina, according to his son Michael Flores.
- Born in 1932 in New Mexico, Flores aspired early to become a foreign correspondent.
- Flores was the first American resident correspondent in Cuba after the Bay of Pigs invasion but left in 1967 after being asked to be reassigned.
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