Cuba's First Daughter Has Gone Beyond Castro Name
Cuba's First Daughter Has Gone Beyond Castro Name
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press
HAVANA May 22, 2012 (AP)
She has her uncle's penchant for speaking her mind. From her father, she inherited a disciplined tenacity.
But Mariela Castro, a married mother of three and member of Cuba's most powerful family, has paved her own way in making gay rights her life's cause. And now the 49-year-old daughter of President Raul Castro is about to make a controversial visit to the United States for a conference on Latin America.
"She has put herself at the forefront of the struggle for rights for the LGBT community," said Gloria A. Careaga Perez, a professor of psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico who will be on Mariela Castro's panel at the San Francisco gathering of the Latin American Studies Association on Thursday. "What she does is praiseworthy because she is a pioneer, an academic and political authority who stands up for human rights."
Requests to interview Castro were not granted ahead of her trip, and four friends and admirers declined to speak on the record, a symptom of Cubans' deep misgivings about openly discussing members of the Castro family.
More:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cubas-daughter-castro-16406153
Earlier article from flamingdem, posted several days ago, revealing the Congressional Cuban "exile" Congresspeople throwing fits over Mariela Castro's admission to the U.S. for this seminar:
Thu May 17, 2012, 08:48 AM
flamingdem
Cuban congressional freak-out over Visa for Raul Castro's LGBT advocate daughter
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11082868
