Interviews From Havana - José Pertierra, a man who makes headlines

In this program host Cristina Escobar interviews Cuban-American lawyer José Pertierra, who has written any number of articles on issues related to Cuba and the United States. For Escobar, he is a man whose life is full of headlines. The discussion begins with his arrival in the United States soon after the Cuban revolution, his history with the Chicano movement and the struggles for justice for the farm workers, his love for Cuba, his coverage of the trial of CIA agent and terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, his involvement in the case of the shipwrecked Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez, his travels back and forth to Cuba, his defense of immigrants and others who have no defense, his support for the normalization of U.S.– Cuba relations, and his expectations that President Barack Obama will take further actions to achieve this normalization. teleSUR