El dos de mayo/May 2nd
Photo from cervantes.es. Click HERE . ¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Zoé Valdés! (1959- ) "La libertad es lo primero. Luego todo lo demás." A Cuban writer novelist, poet, scriptwriter, blogger, and activist, Zoé Valdés was born the same year that Castro came to power. She was taught to read and love poetry by her grandmother, who was of Chinese and Irish descent, and she published her first poem as a teenager. In the 1980s she worked at the Cuban Delegation of UNESCO in Paris, and then the Oficina Cultural de La Misión de Cuba , also in Paris, before returning to Cuba and serving as editor of the magazine Cine Cubano. In 1994 she was officially exiled from Cuba for political reasons (she had ruffled feathers when she was arrested in the 1980s for driving two Spanish tourists around Havana, as this was against the law under the regime, and by refusing to donate an award she won in 1991 to the Castro regime, but the final reason was her signing ...