DATOS DE INTERÉS
GUEST:
LARITZA DIVERSENT
HOST:
TANIA BRUGUERA
Synopsis:
Laritza Diversent talks about the events that sent her and her team into exile, and her work with Cubalex during a decade accompanying and defending political and social activists and artists in Cuba, narrated here in the first person.
Bio:
Laritza Diversent
(Havana, 1980)
Laritza Diversent is a Cuban human rights lawyer and pro-democracy activist. In 2010, she founded Cubalex in Havana, a non-profit organization specializing in legal assistance to victims of human rights violations. She has presented cases to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the UN Human Rights System. She was one of the civilian activists who met with the U.S. president Barack Obama during his historic visit to Cuba in 2016. In 2017, the Cuban regime raided Cubalex´s office, imprisoned one of their lawyers and opened an investigation against Diversent and her staff for “illegal activities.” In 2018, Diversent and her team were forced to exile to the United States to avoid further repression. Currently she lives in Maryland, where she continues her pro-democracy work in Cuba.
