In this GLA podcast, Jason Poblete speaks with Maria Werlau, the Executive Director of the Free Society Project. The Free Society Project is better known in these parts as Cuba Archive (“Archivo Cuba” in Spanish), a non-profit organization incorporated in 2001 in Washington, D.C, operating from Miami, San Juan, and other U.S. cities. Cuba Archives promotes the understanding, recognition, and observance of human rights through research and information. Over twenty years, Cuba Archive has helped gather and tell the story of pre- and post-1959 Cuba, gathering and telling the story of its victims.
Cuba Archive takes something terrible and turns it into something useful. They record human rights abuses in countries such as Cuba. The aim? There are many reasons to do this, and we explore them in this podcast. As Maria has shared widely over the years, there is profound unawareness of the enormous cost socialism and Communism have inflicted on Cuba and its people.
And with Cuba just 90 miles away, it has had an impact in our country as well. Jason, Maria, and others involved with issues such as these, have always stressed that knowing Cuba's victims is essential to understanding Cuba's current state. No matter your point of view on U.S. policy toward the region, if you want to understand current U.S.-Cuba policy, start by listening to this podcast.
Further Reading: Cuba’s Intervention in Venezuela: A Strategic Occupation with Global Implications by Maria Werlau (Jul. 2019). Cuba Archive database.
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Documenting Injustice, Sowing Seeds of Hope, A Discussion with Maria Werlau of the Free Society Project