Mariela Castro

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Mariela Castro during the CSD 2010 in Hamburg

Mariela Castro Espín (born July 27, 1962 in Havana ) is a Cuban educator . She is the director of the Centro Nacional de Educación Sexual ( National Center for Sexual Education - CENESEX ) and an activist for gay rights and a member of the Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular , the Cuban parliament. She is the daughter of the former heads of state and government of Cuba Raúl Castro and Vilma Espín , the former president of the Cuban women's organization Federación de Mujeres Cubanas , as well as the niece of ex-president Fidel Castro and sister of Alejandro Castro .

CENESEX, whose management she took over in 1990 as the successor to its German founding director Monika Krause , advocates effective prevention against AIDS and the acceptance of homosexuality, bisexuality , transvestism and transgender people . In 2005 she started a project with the aim of allowing gender reassignment surgery and legal gender change. In June 2008 the Cuban parliament passed a corresponding law. An initiative for the legal equality of same-sex partnerships , however, has not yet been successful.

Mariela Castro is also President of the Multidisciplinary Center for Sexual Studies of Cuba , President of the National Commission for the Treatment of Gender Identity Disorders , Member of the Action Group on AIDS Prevention, Confrontation and Combat , Executive Member of the World Association for Sexual Health and University Professor ( profesora auxiliar ) at the Medical University of Havana . She publishes the journal Sexología y Sociedad ( Sexology and Society ) and has published numerous scientific articles and books.

As the only member of the Castro family besides Fidel and Raúl Castro, she has repeatedly spoken to the international media on political issues and expressly supports her father's reform efforts in the economic field. She also advocates strengthening participatory mechanisms.

After Der Spiegel printed an interview with her in July 2010, she complained to the newspaper Junge Welt about alleged manipulation of the news magazine. The Spiegel editor who conducted the interview rejected Castro's accusation when asked by the media-critical Bildblog and stated that the text had been authorized "line by line" by Castro in accordance with the magazine's usual practice .

Mariela Castro is second married to the Italian photographer Paolo Titolo, with whom she has two children. She also has a daughter from her first marriage to the Chilean ex- FPMR fighter Juan Gutiérrez Fischmann, who was divorced in 1989.

In December 2013, Castro became the first member of parliament in the history of the Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular to vote against a bill. She justified her no vote by not listing HIV status and gender identity in the law that has now come into force, which prohibits employers from certain forms of discrimination against their employees.

See also

Web links

Commons : Mariela Castro  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ LGBT Rights in Cuba, the United States and Beyond: Mariela Castro and Rea Carey in Conversation The New York Public Library, May 29, 2012
  2. ^ Libro a la Carta con Mariela Castro Espín , UNEAC of May 29, 2013
  3. ↑ So far, her brother Alejandro has only granted an interview to the Russian state foreign television network Russia Today in November 2012: Entrevista con Alejandro Castro Espín, investigador social cubano , in: Russia Today from November 1, 2012 (Spanish), accessed on December 25, 2012
  4. ↑ taz.de : Knut Henkel: The Revolution in the Revolution of August 13, 2008
  5. ↑ We need changes In: Der Spiegel from July 19, 2010, accessed on May 14, 2011
  6. ↑ Lies against Cuba ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cubafreundschaft.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 221 kB) In: Junge Welt from August 7, 2010
  7. ↑ Hetzenjagd auf der Spiegel In: Bildblog from August 20, 2010, accessed on June 28, 2012
  8. ↑ Los Dichos que Levantan Polvareda ( Memento from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in: Diario El Gong from September 5, 2010, accessed on December 8, 2011 (Spanish)
  9. ↑ Pedro Schwarze: El ex yerno seguirá siendo prófugo in his blog Toda la noche oyendo pasar pájaros from September 7, 2009, accessed on December 8, 2011 (Spanish)
  10. ↑ Zeit Online: Castro daughter ensures first no vote in parliament , August 20, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Castro, Mariela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Castro Espín, Mariela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban educator, director of the National Center for Sexual Education in Cuba
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana