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CONFERENCE SPEAKER BIOS:
2010 Che Guevara Conference



DR. ALEIDA GUEVARA
- Lifelong Cuban revolutionary leader, a pediatrician, prominent author of the book, Chávez, Venezuela and the New Latin America and daughter of the legendary Ernesto Che Guevara.

MANUEL YEPE - Journalist and professor at the Superior Institute of International Relations of Havana. Manuel was a leader of the underground July 26 Movement in Matanzas leading up to the triumph of the Cuban revolution, and worked directly with Ernesto Che Guevara.

MIGUEL FRAGA - Press and Cultural Attaché at the Cuban Embassy in Canada.

SAMIRA AMNDAN - Diplomatic Attaché at the Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Toronto. Samira has been a social worker, and has more than 15 years of working with most of the social movements organized in Venezuela. She is a woman with an extensive left political history since her early years and is now working with heart and spirit with Hugo Chavez and for the Bolivarian Revolution.

ISAAC SANEY - Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax and co-chair of the Canadian Network on Cuba. Author of the book, Cuba: a Revolution in Motion.

LARRY MOSQUEDA - Professor of Political Economy at Evergreen State University in Washington State.

ARNOLD AUGUST – Author of the book, Democracy in Cuba and the 1997-98 Elections and the forthcoming book, Cuba: Participatory Democracy and Elections in the 21st Century.

MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS - Coordinator of Caravans to Cuba and Haiti for Interreligious Foundation for Community Organizing (IFCO)/Pastors for Peace in New York City.

WALTER LIPPMANN - Editor-in-chief of Cuba News from Los Angeles.

TAMARA HANSEN - Coordinator of Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC) and co-chair of the Canadian Network on Cuba.

ALI YEREVANI - Political editor of the Fire This Time Newspaper.