Rolando Cartaya

Rolando Cartaya (Havana, 1952) graduated in Journalism from the University of Havana in 1976. He has worked for the arts & culture section of Cuba’s Juventud Rebelde newspaper, the UPI news agency, the Worldnet service, and as editor of the Spanish-language editions of Newsweek, Discover, and Motor Trend magazines. He has translated to Spanish more than 20 books for the Christian publisher Thomas Nelson, Inc. With Radio Martí from 1989 to 2019, he served as editor, writer, reporter, special correspondent, and, since 2001, director and scriptwriter of the program "Sin Censores ni Censura" (Without Censors or Censorship) a daily presentation of the works of independent Cuban journalists. From 2012 to 2019, he was also a writer-editor for the website martinoticias.com. He has been an analyst of Cuban affairs on radio and television programs. He currently works as an investigative journalist with the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba. In the late 1980s, while still in Cuba, he was one of the vice presidents of the Cuban Committee for Human Rights, an organization that gave rise to the human rights movement on the island.