Hunger in Havana

Enrique Del Risco

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Enrique Del Risco is a Cuban writer and professor at New York University, who fled surveillance and censorship in Cuba in the 1990s. In this powerful talk, he recounts his journey from loyal revolutionary to outspoken dissident. Drawing on Cuba’s long history of authoritarianism, Del Risco explores how regimes manipulate fear, memory, and identity to maintain control and how totalitarianism lingers in the stories we tell ourselves.

About the Speaker

Enrique Del Risco

Enrique

Del Risco

Cuban writer and professor

Enrique del Risco is a Cuban writer and professor at NYU. He began his academic career in Cuba, but the constant surveillance and censorship forced him to leave the island in the 1990s. Since then, he has continued to denounce the dictatorship and has published several books detailing life under the island’s totalitarian regime, including “Our Hunger in Havana,” in which he recounts life in Cuba during the “Special Period,” and “The Comrade Who Looks After Me,” a book in which 50 Cuban writers discuss their relationship with the political police.

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