Arleen Rodríguez Derivet

Cuban journalist and host of the Cuban television program "Mesa Redonda" of which she is the General Coordinator, which broadcasts a special broadcast for Telesur. She is co-author of the book "El Camaján". She is a non-professional member of the presidency of the National Union of Journalists of Cuba.

Graduated in journalism in 1982 from the University of Oriente, she began her career as a correspondent for Juventud Rebelde, where she later held various positions, including sub-director, and was its director from 1989 to 1997.

Founding director of the weekly Opciones (1994-1997), she was also director and is currently editor of the Tricontinental magazine of OSPAAAL, a responsibility she shares with hosting radio programs and frequently as a panelist on the Round Tables of Cuban Television.

In 1993 she won the José Martí national journalism award. During two periods she was a member of the National Committee of UPEC (1986-1998).

This Cuban journalist is a well-known host of the Cuban television program "Mesa Redonda" and its general coordinator.

Arleen has brought distinction to almost everything she has touched in this profession, in which she has long been considered a multiplatform journalist. Her journalism, profound and sensitive, always ends up passing through the heart. A heart that, as we Cubans say, beats beautifully and precisely in the middle of her chest. Her colleagues know this well, and they keep her in the presidency of UPEC, as that protective angel of the best of our causes.

She has written interesting journalistic articles and conducted interviews with outstanding personalities.

Articles and Interviews
The Weapons of Judgment
"What a shame, NATO talking about cannons in Lisbon while thousands die in Haiti" (Fidel with Spanish American intellectuals)
"The ideas from five years ago are more current than they were then" (Meeting of Fidel Castro with young Cubans)
The Classics Must Be Read in the Original
"We have to persuade Obama to avoid nuclear war" (Venezuelan journalists interview Fidel Castro)
"Man cannot lose the opportunity to survive with everything he knows today" (Fidel with young people)
The Argentine documentary "Imagen Final" wins the Al Jazeera Festival
More of Argentina's painful memory in the new installment by Estela Bravo. (Havana Book Fair)
The Foreign Minister of Honduras's constitutional government speaks to Cuban Television. Patricia Rodas: "The coup plotters made a mistake about the President, they made a mistake about the people"
Tristan Bauer: I hope my film serves to radiate Che's thinking like a flame
The last word has still not been said. (After the 21-year prison sentence against Antonio Guerrero)
Demand on Martes 13
Juanes Concert or Peace Without Borders?
When These Days Become Legend
"There are 40 pages of ideological prejudice in the new Atlanta ruling." (Interview with Leonard Weinglass, lawyer for the five Cuban prisoners in the United States)
"What wouldn't we do with the resources that others throw away?" (Interview with Oscar Amado, director of Argenpress)
The Four Interviewers of Fidel Castro. (Interview with Frei Betto, Gianni Miná, Tomás Borge and Ignacio Ramonet)
The Refugees of Damascus
"What the Five suffer are the claws of a beast against an unbearable light". (Interview with Silvio Rodríguez)
"The Lebanese people knocked down the myth of the invincible Israeli army". (Interview with the President of Lebanon, Emile Lahoud, offered to the Round Table of Cuban Television)
"All the attempts Haiti made to take its life, its future, have been intervened" (René Preval, Elected President of Haiti)
The Swahili Translator of Che Died: The Dreams of Ilunga
"To change the world you have to take power" (Interview with writer Tariq Alí)
Sunday in Lock Down. (In the prison where one of the five Cuban political prisoners in the U.S. is held.)
What's Behind Chávez's Generosity?
Songs don't change the world, but they can make it better. (Interview with Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez)
2003 published, in co-authorship with Lázaro Barredo Medina, El camaján (Editora Política, Havana).
2008 with Randy Alonso La mala conducta (Ed. Oficina del Consejo de Estado, Havana).
2007 Author of the book Los afortunados entrevistadores de Fidel Castro (Ed. Oficina del Consejo de Estado, Havana).
2004 Included in the anthology of essayists Vivir y pensar en Cuba, by Enrique Ubieta (Ed. Ciencias Sociales, Havana), she has written prologues for several works at the request of their authors.

Other Publications
Works in publications such as:
Juventud Rebelde
Granma
Cubaperiodistas
Cubadebate
La jiribilla
La Jornada (Mexico)
La República (Peru)
El Periódico (Guatemala)
La República (Uruguay)

Awards
1992 José Martí National Journalism Award
1997 Abril Award.