Messages from Cuban Ambassadors
![pedro-500x500 Pedro Luis Pedroso Cuesta, Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations](http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/pedro-500x500-1.jpg)
Pedro Luis Pedroso Cuesta, Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations
![liany-500x500 Lianys Torres Rivera, Cuban Ambassador to the United States](http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/liany-500x500-1.jpg)
Lianys Torres Rivera, Cuban Ambassador to the United States
Guest Speakers
![peter-500x500 Peter Kornbluh, Senior Analyst and Director of Cuba and Chile Documentation Projects, National Security Archive. He is the author/editor of Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba (The New Press, 1998). His most recent book is Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana (UNC Press, 2014).](http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/peter-500x500-1.jpg)
Peter Kornbluh, Senior Analyst and Director of Cuba and Chile Documentation Projects, National Security Archive. He is the author/editor of Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba (The New Press, 1998). His most recent book is Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana (UNC Press, 2014).
![mary-500x500 Mary-Alice Waters, President, Pathfinder Press, editor, Playa Girón](http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/mary-500x500-1.jpg)
Mary-Alice Waters, President, Pathfinder Press, editor, Playa Girón
![catherine-500x500 Catherine Murphy, Founder and Director of The Literacy Project. Her documentary Maestra explores the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign through the eyes of the youngest women teachers](http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/catherine-500x500-1.jpg)
Catherine Murphy, Founder and Director of The Literacy Project. Her documentary Maestra explores the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign through the eyes of the youngest women teachers
![Juan Carlos Rodríguez, author of The Inevitable Battle is a Cuban historian and researcher. He was a literacy volunteer at Playa Girón in the zone where the battle was fought. Juan Carlos Rodríguez, author of The Inevitable Battle is a Cuban historian and researcher. He was a literacy volunteer at Playa Girón in the zone where the battle was fought.](http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/juan-500x500-1.jpg)
Juan Carlos Rodríguez, author of The Inevitable Battle is a Cuban historian and researcher. He was a literacy volunteer at Playa Girón in the zone where the battle was fought.
![cuba-literacy-campaign-hero_01 Cuban International Literacy Campaign for Human Liberation](http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cuba-literacy-campaign-hero_01-1.jpg)
Co-Chairs
![claudia-500x500 Claudia De La Cruz, community organizer and Co-Executive Director at The People’s Forum](http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/claudia-500x500-1.jpg)
Claudia De La Cruz, community organizer and Co-Executive Director at The People’s Forum
![manolo-500x500 Manolo De Los Santos, educator and Co-Executive Director at The People’s Forum](http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/manolo-500x500-1.jpg)
Manolo De Los Santos, educator and Co-Executive Director at The People’s Forum
International Premier of Maestros Voluntarios/Voluntary Teachers from The Literacy Project
Original Cuban Newsreel Footage of Playa Giron/Bay of Pigs Invasion and Aftermath
![cuba-literacy-campaign-books_03 Cuba Literacy Campaign](http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cuba-literacy-campaign-books_03.jpg)