Miami Writer, Photographer Harry Caicedo Dies at 76

By: E&P Staff

Harry Caicedo, former Key West bureau chief for The Maimi Herald, died of heart failure Dec. 13 at a Miami Beach hospital, following complications from chemotherapy for leukemia. He was 76.

Caicedo most recently worked as seminars coordinator for the Miami-based Press Institute of the Inter American Press Association, conducting its photojournalism conferences. His novel, ""Conflicting Loyalties,"" a political thriller, was published in April.

Born in New York, Caicedo spent much of his youth in Colombia and Panama, according to his Herald obituary. After joining the U.S. Navy during the Korean War, he worked as a journalist and was a reporter for the predecessor of Stars and Stripes, his son Greg told the Herald.

After the war, Caicedo earned a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. In the late 1950s, he worked in New Orleans before becoming Herald Key West bureau chief.

With a master's degree in inter-American affairs from Georgetown University, Caicedo joined the U.S. Information Agency and was posted to the embassy in Lima, Peru, where he also became the Voice of America's first foreign correspondent, his former wife, Toni Caicedo told the Herald.

Following a USIA stint in Mexico City, Caicedo rejoined the Herald in the 1970s as newsroom liaison with El Nuevo Herald. In the 1980s he helped launch and edited Vista, an English-language weekly magazine for Hispanic readers.