Liz Balmaseda (born January 17, 1959) is a journalist who writes for The Palm Beach Post.
Balmaseda was born in Puerto Padre, Cuba, amidst the Cuban Revolution.
She worked in this and several other reporting assignments at the Herald until 1985, when she left to become Central America bureau chief, based in El Salvador, for Newsweek.
She moved to NBC News as a field producer based in Honduras before returning to the Miami Herald in November 1987 as a feature writer.
[1] Balmaseda was awarded her first Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1993 for her writings on the plight of Cuban and Haitian refugees.