Manuel Vázquez Portal

Manuel Vázquez Portal ( born in 1951 in Morón, Ciego de Ávila province, Cuba) is an award-winning Cuban poet, writer and journalist.^[1]

He won three official prizes between 1984 and 1993^[specify]. In 1995, he was expelled by the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) because of his dissident views.^[1]

He was incarcerated during the "Black Spring" in 2003.^[1] The Committee to Protect Journalists awarded him the International Press Freedom Award in 2003.^[2]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Journalist Manuel Vázquez Portal released". Reporters Without Borders. http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10839. 
2. ^ "Awards 2003 - Vazquez Portal". The Committee to Protect Journalists. http://cpj.org/awards/2003/vazquez.php. 

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