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DATA OF INTEREST
GUEST:
Mónica Baró
Synopsis:
Recently interrogated by the political police, the independent journalist talks about her experience in this live, where she speaks for the first time in public about financial transparency at El Estornudo, the media outlet she collaborates for. This generates a controversy that the magazine resolves by sharing where its funding comes from. The arbitrariness of Decree 370 and Law 88 are revealed and denounced here.
Bio:
Mónica Baró
(Havana Cuba, 1988).
Mónica Baró (Havana, 1988) is an independent journalist and 2012 journalism graduate from the University of Havana. She worked for the state magazine Bohemia from 2013-2014 and later at the Instituto de Filosofía de Cuba. In 2015, she was part of the founding team of the independent environmental magazine Periodismo de Barrio, where she served as a reporter and member of the editorial board until December 2018, and in January 2019 she began to work as a reporter for the magazine El Estornudo. She has also published in OnCuba, Redacción Digital de Univisión Noticias, El Toque, Cuba Posible, Hypermedia Magazine and Rialta.
She has written principally about communities vulnerable to natural disasters, lead poisoning, housing problems and gender-based violence. In 2016 she was a finalist of the Premio Gabriel García Márquez with the text La Mudanza, and in 2019 she won the same award with the text La sangre nunca fue amarilla. She is currently part of the team of reporters at El Estornudo and lives in Havana.
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VIDEO
Live with Mónica Baró
