Interviews From Havana - Mariela Castro Espin

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In today's program, host Cristiana Escobar interviews Mariela Castro Espín, director of the Center for Sexual Education (CENESEX), leader of the fight for LGBT rights in Cuba, and a member of the Cuban parliament. She is also the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro and Vilma Espin, guerrilla fighter in the 1959 revolution and founder of the Cuban Women's Federation. Mariela Castro discusses, among other topics, the work of the CENESEX, the role of sexual education in combating prejudices against women and gays, debates on new additions to the family code, the continued vitality of the Cuban Revolution, and her personal recollections of her famous parents. teleSUR