WILPF Fresno Library Committee

Pedro de la Hoz. President of the Aponte Commission. Vice President of the UNEAC. Insightful intellectual, great writer, leader in the struggle against racism and great revolutionary. I can't believe he's gone.
When the US government put him on the "prohibited and sanctioned list" in 2019, he wrote: " ¡Caramba, si estoy en la lista negra...!
Ese optimismo no se nubló cuando también en la mañana del 26 supe que una parte de mí –el escritor– había ingresado en la lista negra con la que el Presidente de Estados Unidos pretende ahogarnos y obligarnos a ser una neocolonia –o acaso una estrella más de la bandera– de su país.
"Damn, I'm on the blacklist...!" But my optimism wasn't clouded when on the morning of July 26 (Cuba's celebration of the start of the Revolution) I found that part of me -- the sriter part -- had been enrolled on the blacklist with which the president of the United States tries to suffocate us and force us to become a neo-colony, or perhaps another star in their flag."
In Santiago, when he presented at the Aponte Conference and exhibit, he signed a copy of África en la Revolución Cubana for me.(I also have Durban 10years after.) Although not in this photo, he often wore a black T-shirt with the words "Las razas no existen -- El racismo sí" (Races don't exist -- but racism does."