DATA OF INTEREST
GUEST:
Rafael Rojas
HOST:
Abel Sierra Madero
Synopsis:
Two historians of different generations who have analyzed Cuba, political power and culture talk about the past, the present and the future of the island in terms of the practices of power and policies of exclusion, and how intellectuals align with this policy with little to no resistance. Survival, hyper-critical intellectuals and the pseudo-bourgeoise. Exile and exclusionary dynamics. The “Soviet institutionalization” of the 1970s, as Rojas calls it, and even at present with Decrees 349 and 370…as well as what is happening with the Movimiento San Isidro and the 27N.
Biografía:
Rafael Rojas Gutiérrez
(Santa Clara, 1965)
Rafael Rojas Gutiérrez is a Cuban historian and essayist residing in Mexico. Rojas has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Havana and a Doctorate in History from the Colegio de México. Since 1996 he has been a professor and researcher at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City and a visiting professor at Princeton, Yale, Columbia and Austin. In 2018 he was named full member of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia (chair 11) and in 2019 he became a professor and researcher at the Centro de Estudios Históricos of the Colegio de México.
He is the author of over twenty books on the intellectual and political history of Latin America, Mexico and Cuba. He received the Matías Romero Award for his book Cuba mexicana. Historia de una anexión imposible (2001), and the Anagrama Essay prize for Tumbas sin sosiego. Revolución, disidencia y exilio del intelectual cubano (2006), and the Isabel de Polanco Award for Las repúblicas de aire. Utopía y desencanto en la Revolución de Hispanoamérica (2009).
