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GUEST:
MARÍA C. WERLAU

HOST:
ANAELI IBARRA


Synopsis:

María's work in Archivo Cuba, a project that seeks to find the voices of the victims of the revolution and of their relatives who were never heard, whose pain sank into the forgetfulness of the post-59 nation, is the result of a family life marked for the violence and silence surrounding the disappearances and deaths caused by the Cuban State.


Bio:

María C. Werlau

María Werlau is the daughter of two members of the 26th of July Movement (M-26-7) who participated in the fight against Fulgencio Batista. María´s father, Armando Cañizares Gamboa, was a member of Che Guevara´s column. A few months after Batista fled Cuba and the rebels came to power, her parents decided to exile to the United States, in disagreement with the executions by firing squad and the growing revolutionary terror.

Her father returned to Cuba as a member of Brigade 2506, which carried out the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Armando lost his life in 1961 during the invasion. Despite the Cuban government never admitting to his death, a photograph in Life magazine confirmed their loss to his family.

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