Talking Cuba, human rights and activism with author Vanessa García

This episode was recorded on the same night as our previous release with guest Vanessa García. In that last episode, Vanessa and Mike discussed her new children’s book, “What the Bread Says: Baking with Love, History, and Papan.”

In this recording, the two discuss Cuba, human rights, and the whirlwind of protests, human rights campaigns and activism that followed Cuba’s July 11, 2021 protests. By that summer, Vanessa had studied and written about Cuba’s history and the resistance movement on the island for years. in the wake of the protest, she found herself diving deeper, taking on a slew of Cuba-related projects and immersing herself in more of the political side of the issue (as she notes in this interview, for instance, she traveled to the U.S. Capitol with Rosa María Payá to engage American lawmakers on the issue).

What’s worked? What hasn’t? How have things changed? What’s the role of the Cuban diaspora? How can the movement for freedom in Cuba be more effective?

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