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Heberto Padilla (1981). Heberto Juan Padilla (20 January 1932 – 25 September 2000) was a Cuban poet put to the center of the so-called Padilla affair when he was imprisoned for criticizing the Cuban government. He was born in Puerta de Golpe, Pinar del Río, Cuba.
Dec 12, 2023 · The Padilla Affair, directed by the Cuban film-maker Pavel Giroud, charts the poet’s fall from grace: he began as a supporter of the revolution led by Fidel Castro, but over the years his poems –...
Apr 26, 2011 · The Padilla affair not only meant a “parting of the waters” in the relationship between world intellectuals with the Cuban Revolution, it also marked the explicit beginning of a policy of “parametraje” (parameterization) toward the island’s artists by the state.
The Padilla case is an astonishing documentary that opens a window to explore aspects of Cuba's past that reverberate in its present, such as the lack of freedom of expression and the struggles of the cultural collective to obtain it."
Q&A with filmmaker Pavel GiroudFollowing the publication of his collection of critical poems in 1971, Cuban poet Heberto Padilla is imprisoned by the communi...
The Cuban poet Heberto Padilla, who died at the end of September, aged sixty-eight, was among those writers of whom it may be said that he made history, less by what he
May 21, 2023 · Screening 5/21, this portrait of the Cuban poet Heberto Padilla is an astonishing documentary that explores aspects of Cuba's past that still reverberate, including the struggle for freedom of expression.
