DATA OF INTEREST

GUEST:
PEDRO CORZO

HOST:
GRETHEL DOMENECH


Synopsis:

Interview with Pedro Corzo, writer and journalist with a long career in the fight for human rights and the recovery of Cuban historical memory. On this occasion he tells us about his beginnings in the political opposition to the Cuban regime, his experience as a political prisoner in the National Prison of Isla de Pinos and his subsequent departure from Cuba. He also reminds us of the number of political prisoners that Castroism began to accumulate from its early years and the different moments in which they have been exiled from Cuba, as was his case, to Venezuela in 1981. Once outside Cuba, Pedro Corzo shares with us his work in exile that continues to this day, first in Venezuela in organizations such as the Union of Cuban Political Prisoners of Venezuela and the Cuba Independent and Democratic (CID) group, and then in the United States as head of the board of directors of the Institute of Cuban Historical Memory against Totalitarianism, which is aimed at investigating and reviewing processes related to the fight for democracy in Cuba from 1959 to date and whose mission is to rescue the historical memory of the processes of Cuban dissidents and opposition.

Bio:

Pedro Corzo

He was born in Santa Clara, Cuba. At a very young age, he was expelled from the Santa Clara Secondary School in 1961 for activities contrary to Fidel Castro's regime. In 1964, he was sentenced to prison, accused of illegal political activities. He spent several years in the National Prison on the Isle of Pines. After his release, he remained in Cuba until he was authorized to travel to Venezuela in August 1981, where he went into exile. In 1992, he traveled permanently to the United States and settled in the city of Miami. He worked at Radio Martí from 1998 to 2021.

He currently chairs the Board of Directors of the Institute of Cuban Historical Memory against Totalitarianism. For several years he has been a columnist on the Opinions page of the Nuevo Herald and collaborates with other digital and print publications. He hosts the interview series “Cuba Encounter with Memory.” He is the author of more than twenty books, including “Cuba, Chronology of the Fight against Totalitarianism,” “Martyrs of the Escambray,” “Cuba, Displaced People and Captive Peoples,” and “Cuban Espionage in the United States.” In May 2017 he received the Medal of Freedom awarded by the governor of the state of Florida.

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