Interview to Mariela Castro Espín
By: Antón Castellanos Usigli

This is the interview that Antón Castellanos Usigli made to Mariela Castro Espín, Director of the National Center of Sexuality Education in Cuba and daughter of the Cuban President, Raúl Castro, during the IV Cuban Congress of Sexuality Education, Sexual Counseling and Sex Therapy. Back in Cuernavaca, Antón presented the interview in the radio program "Información es poder" (Information is power), that had its transmissions from Monday to Friday (from 8:30 am to 9:00 am) on "Universal FM", one radio station belonging to the Direction of Radio and TV of the State Congress of Morelos.

Accomplishments

  • 4 years of work
  • 4 schools involved
  • 14 classes of students were beneficiated
  • 28 first-level specialists participated
  • 53 lectures on human sexuality were delivered, plus 8 workshops, 4 real life testimonies, 3 movie debates, 1 structured debate on abortion and 1 dramatic monologue
  • The Second Congress was housed by the National Institute of Public Health
  • The project was presented at the 19th WAS World Congress for Sexual Health, at Gothenburg, Sweden, and at the VII National Congress of Sex Education and Sexology