Mirta Rodríguez Calderón
Cuban journalist
Mirta Rodríguez Calderón is Cuban journalist based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She is known for her advocacy of feminist journalism and gender equality in media. She co-founded the International Network of Journalists With a Gender Perspective in 2005, and is a promoter of alliances among journalists in Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba, with the aim of including gender-based approaches in social communication.
Career
Educated in Havana, Mirta Rodríguez Calderón first moved to Mexico, and in the late 1990s she moved to the Dominican Republic as a correspondent for Servicio de Noticias de la Mujer de Latinoamérica y el Caribe (SEMlac).
She was a clandestine operative against the dictatorships of Gerardo Machado and Fulgencio Batista with the Martí Women's Civic Front, for which she received recognition from the José Martí Cultural Society of Havana. She later wrote:
I remember that on 13 March, during the Attack on the (Presidential) Palace, I had to give a music class. [...] There was a moment, around 1957 itself, when the Club Artístico Normalista became a facade because, for example, we held a beautiful activity with Carilda Oliver Labra, the Matanzas poet, and we told people to go and what would be raised there would be for the Movement. And so we did. We were honest with Carilda and we told her; she took it very well and then she maintained a certain relationship with us. [...] However, we were a very small group, who converged through poetic and intellectual interests, until later the insurrectional struggle began and the rest took over.
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