About

Carolyn E. Chester Publisher and Researcher

I am the youngest daughter of Edmund A. Chester Sr., a pioneer American journalist who covered Latin America through its most turbulent decades, built the Associated Press Latin American network, and created La Cadena de las Americas — CBS’s hemispheric radio network linking twenty-one nations during World War II.

For decades, my father lived in the shadows. Threatened by Castro’s regime, he stayed silent to protect his young family. His extraordinary story — the travels, the broadcasts, the artists, the diplomats, the history he witnessed and shaped — went untold. My mother always believed the world deserved to know. This series is the fulfillment of that dream.

I have spent years preserving his original archives — photographs, correspondence, documents, and recordings that no one else has seen — to tell his story accurately and completely, from his own materials. The Americans Forgotten: Shade to Shine series is the result of that work.

In 2015 I testified before Congress on behalf of American certified Cuba property claimants, advocating for the families financially devastated by the Castro expropriation. That work continues.

Edmund Chester deserves his rightful place in history. And at the heart of his story, I have come to understand, was the great love of his life — his beautiful Chilean wife, Enna. She was his anchor through everything.

It is time for him to shine.

Carolyn E. Chester Grapevine Publications LLC