Rolando Rodriguez Lobaina (was born 3 May 1969, in

Baracoa Baracoa, whose full original name is: ''Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Baracoa'' ("Our Lady of the Assumption of Baracoa"), is a municipality and city in Guantánamo Province near the eastern tip of Cuba. It was visited by Admiral Christopher ...

Guantánamo Guantánamo (, , ) is a municipality and city in southeast Cuba and capital of Guantánamo Province. Guantánamo is served by the Caimanera port near the site of a U.S. naval base. The area produces sugarcane and cotton wool. These are traditi ...

), is a

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n democracy activist and Journalist. Lobainais director of the Alternative Studies Center of the Cuban Youth for Democracy Movement, founded by his brother

Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina is a Cuban democracy activist. He is the older brother of Rolando Rodríguez Lobaina. He founded the Alternative Studies Center of the Cuban Youth for Democracy Movement. He was arrested in 1999 when he began a hunger st ...

. Lobaina is also head of the Palenque Vision, an independent journalist agency in

Oriente Province Oriente (, "East") was the easternmost province of Cuba until 1976. The term "Oriente" is still used to refer to the eastern part of the country, which currently is divided into five different provinces. The origins of Oriente lie in the 1607 di ...

Biography

A computer engineer graduate from the CUJAE University in

Havana Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Democracy Democracy (from , ''dēmos'' 'people' and ''kratos'' 'rule') is a form of government in which political power is vested in the people or the population of a state. Under a minimalist definition of democracy, rulers are elected through competitiv ...

group. Since then, he joined and founded different dissident movements . Lobaina spent six years in a Cuban prison. He has been arrested many times but released under international pressure. May 1, 2009, he was arrested again. Today, Lobaino is the Director of Eastern Democratic Alliance and the Alternative Studies Center of the Cuban Youth for Democracy Movement, founded by r Nestor Rodriquez Lobaina . Rolando Rodriguez Lobaina believes that the best way to empower Cubans is to grant them access to free and reliable information, lead him to launch journals, magazines and finally one of the first audiovisual independent press agencies on the island; Palenque Visión. Lobaina's work with Palenque Visión earned him a David Burke Distinguished Journalism Award, awarded by the

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External links

Palenque Vision

References

Living people Cuban democracy activists Cuban dissidents 1969 births People from Baracoa {{Cuba-activist-stub