DATA OF INTEREST
GUEST:
Tania Díaz Castro
HOST:
Anaeli Ibarra
Synopsis:
From her home in Havana, Tania narrates her beginnings in journalism in the 1960s, her transition into independent journalism and her year as a political prisoner after asking Fidel Castro for a plebiscite. Tania also tells us about the events surrounding the so-called “Black Spring” during which a group of 75 opposition figures were imprisoned and she went into exile.
Bio:
Tania Díaz Castro was born in Camajuaní, Villa Clara, in 1939 and attended Catholic School. Her first four books of poetry were published by the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba followed by two published by Linden Ediciones Line Press and ZV Lunáticas. Since 1964 she has worked as a reporter in Cuban magazines and newspapers and during eight years wrote radio scripts at the ICRT, between 1977 and 1983 and again between 1992 and 1993, that chronicled the history of China and the newspaper Kwong WahPo, of Havana´s Chinatown. From 1989 to 1990 she was imprisoned for asking Fidel Castro for a plebiscite. She began working at CubaNet in 1998 and lives with her cats and dogs in the Havana neighborhood of Santa Fe.
