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Manuel Vázquez Portal habla sobre Batista, Castro y la Revolución en Cuba
By: Freeforall
Posted: Jan 19 09
Witnessed: 1925 times
Regions: Cuba
Issues: Human rights defenders
Tags: Batista, Castro, Cuba, human rights, independent journalist, manuel vazquez portal
Manuel Vázquez Portal, former Amnesty International prisoner of conscience arrested in March of 2003 in nationwide crackdown on independent journalists and human rights activists. Manuel is a journalist and a poet currently exiled in Miami. He was interviewed on Sunday, January 18, 2008 and asked about his views on Cuba's revolutionary process and the circumstances that led him to break with it.
Nació en Morón, provincia Ciego de Ávila, Cuba, el día 9 de octubre de 1951.
Escritor y poeta, es licenciado en Filología. Trabajó en la prensa oficial desde 1974 en Morón y posteriormente en La Habana. Se inició en el periodismo independiente en 1996 en la agencia CubaPress. En 1998 fundó la agencia de prensa Decoro que en 1999 cambio su nombre a Grupo de Trabajo Decoro. Es autor de varios libros: A mano Abierta, poesía; Del pecho como una gota, poesía; Cantos iniciales, poesía; Fábrica de antojos, poemas para niños; Amar a fondo, cuento; Una guerra por los sueños, novela para niños; el más reciente es Celda número cero, poesía.
Está casado con la Sra. Yolanda Huerga Cedeño. Fue condenado a 18 años en el 2003 estuvo cumpliendo su sentencia en la cárcel de Boniato a 860 kilómetros de La Habana donde reside su familia en Edificio 979 apto. 14 - Zona 24 Alamar, Habana del Este. Hasta que gestiones y campanas internacionales lograron su libertad.
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