The Cuban Human Rights Collection, 1983-2004, Date acquired: 2005, bulk 1990-1999
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Hidalgo, Ariel
- Hidalgo, Ariel
- Extent:
- 30.00 boxes
- Language:
- English Spanish; Castilian
Background
- Scope and content:
The Cuban Human Right Collection date from 1961 to 2004, primarily covering issues of human rights on Cuba. In addition to Cuban newspaper clippings from the 1980s to the early 2000s, published in The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and other periodicals, the collection also includes audio interviews with Cuban dissidents, which include key members of the dissident movement in Cuba. Radio programs from Cuba en vivo y en directo, the first U.S. radio program to feature the perspectives of dissidents, created by Ariel Hidalgo in 1989. Documents written by jailed dissidents in Cuba. Photographs of Cuban dissidents. Television programs from Cuba, recorded from government-run TV stations on the island during the 1980s and 90s.
- Biographical / historical:
Ariel Hidalgo was born in Cuba on 1945. Mr. Hidalgo was sentenced to five years in prison in 1967 for allegedly planning to leave Cuba illegally after escaping from a forced labor camp. Released the following year, he studied history, philosophy, and political economy at the University of Havana and published Orígenes del Movimiento Obrero y del Pensamiento Socialista en Cuba (Origins of the Worker's Movement and of Socialist Thought in Cuba), a text used in universities throughout the island. In 1981, he was sentenced to prison for the publication of Cuba, El Estado Marxista y La Nueva Clase (Cuba: The Marxist State and the New Class), Hidalgo spent a year of solitary confinement in the so-called Rectángulo de la muerte (Rectangle of Death) a special section at maximum security Combinado del Este Prison in Havana.
Released from isolation after one year, Hidalgo began to collaborate with other political prisoners who were the founding members of the CCPDH, the first human rights group in Cuba. After founding the Liga Cívica Martiana in 1986, Hidalgo was frequently interviewed in jail by representatives from various international human rights organizations and foreign journalists. He was released in 1988 thanks to the intervention of Cardinal John O'Connor from New York, Hidalgo settled in Miami where he founded Cuba en Vivo y en Directo (Cuba Live and Direct), the first U.S. radio program to feature the perspectives of dissidents from the island. In 1990 he founded the Information Bureau of the Human Rights Movement in Cuba and began to publish various periodicals which were secretly distributed to the island and circulated among members of the dissident movement. In 1994 Hidalgo published Disidencia: Segunda revolucion cubana? (Dissidence: the Second Cuban Revolution?), a history of the Cuban dissident movement.
Note written by Annia Gonzalez
- Acquisition information:
- Donation
- Arrangement:
The collection is arranged in 4 series: 1 Papers. 2 Correspondence. 3 Audio/Visual Material. 4 Photographs. Resources are organized in chronological order when date was available and in alphabetical order by subject or personal name.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Names:
- Hidalgo, Ariel
Access and use
- Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
Rights: In copyright. Standardized rights statement: https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/
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- Location of this collection:
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