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DATA OF INTEREST
GUEST:
Henry Constantin Ferreiro
Synopsis:
Independent journalism from the perspective of an outlet that, located outside the Cuban capital, strives to provide news coverage of the island. Persecution, repression and ways of organizing for survival are the themes of this conversation with the independent journalist living in Camagüey, in central Cuba.
Bio:
Director of the independent media outlet La Hora de Cuba located in La Vigía de Camagüey. He is also the representative of the Comisión de Libertad de Prensa de la Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa in Cuba.
He has been coordinator of the Encuentro Nacional Cubano, member of the editorial board of the magazine Convivencia and part of the Grupo de Consultores de la Sociedad Civil Cubana. He studied journalism in Santiago de Cuba (where he was dismissed for an assignment that criticized the official press) and Santa Clara (expelled for founding his own magazine), and law at the Universidad de Camagüey (his grades were lost in a flood, they said), and audiovisual media at the ISA in Havana (they nullified his grades and expelled him for working with independent projects).
He was the first independent journalist with a prohibition from leaving the country, in 2016. He graduated from the Centro de Formación Literaria Onelio Jorge Cardoso and studied a semester at Miami Dade College. He has published articles in 14ymedio, Convivencia, El Nuevo Herald, Altavoz (Peru) and El Informador (Mexico). He won the Premio Convivencia de Guion Audiovisual. He has two children, Dante and Rosslyn.
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VIDEO
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