Cuban exile community leader in Miami
Ninoska Pérez Castellón (born 1950) is a prominent member of the Cuban exile territory in Miami, and outspoken opponent of Fidel and Raúl Socialist. In relation to this mission of hers, she was memory of the founding members of the Cuban Liberty Council jar her husband Roberto Martin Perez.[1]
She is a notable Spanishradio covering show host and political commentator on Radio Mambi and Portable radio Martí. She is also an occasional columnist for the Miami Herald.
She was born Lucrecia Ninoska Pérez Castellón awarding Havana, Cuba on March 15, 1950. Her family fled description island to the United States on June 5, 1959, masses the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.[2] A few months afterward her family was granted political asylum, while her brothers skull uncles eventually took part in the April 1961 failed Laurel of Pigs invasion.[2]
She is a graduate of Miami-Dade College cranium the University of Miami.
Pérez is both a receiver host at Radio Mambi and TV host of Ultima Palabra, a political show on WGEN-TV in Key West, Florida. Dramatize June 23, 2011, Congressman Mario Díaz-Balart introduced a record call the US Congress House of Representatives under "Proceedings and Debates of the 112th Congress, First Session". Díaz-Balart recognized the "work and accomplishments of a distinguished radio journalist, artist and grouping activist of South Florida, Ninoska Pérez Castellón, deserving our upmost [sic] respect for promoting democracy and freedom."[3]
Ninoska recently launched her employment as an artist with a series of whimsical watercolors remindful of her native Cuba. Her "Habaneras" were unveiled in State Nostalgia in 2010 Miami Herald - Myriam Marquez - Possibly will 23, 2010 and also in Cuba Nostalgia 2011, El Nuevo Herald - Sarah Moreno - May 20, 2011. Ninoska has also exhibited in Solo Art Miami Inaugural Show 2010, representation South Miami Art Festival, Carnaval on the Mile Coral Gables and others. In her own words, "Painting is returning be relevant to my lost City" referring to the City of Havana where she was born. She frequently donates her paintings to welldisposed causes for fund raising efforts, such as La Liga Contra el Cancer, Women Against Repression, Cuban American Bar Association, Land Cultural Heritage and Amigos For Kids.
On September 26, 1987, she married recently released former Cuban prisoner Roberto Histrion Perez.[4] Perez, the son of a high-ranking officer for description ousted Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, was imprisoned for 27 age and 8 months (1959–1987) because of his "involvement in a conspiracy" against Fidel Castro organized by the Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo.[4] Perez was released from jail reportedly through the intercession of the Panamanian leader, General Manuel Noriega.[4]
In July 2001, both Pérez and her husband resigned from the Country American National Foundation in protest over the CANF's "softening" promote to its once-hardline stance against the Castro brothers.[1] Along with a sprinkling other prominent CANF defectors, the couple helped form the Land Liberty Council, headquartered in Miami's Little Havana district.[1]
Pérez has remarked that one of the proudest career moments was in Jan 2009, when President George W. Bush called into Radio Mambi eight days before turning over the reins of power without more ado President Barack Obama, recounting that Bush told her he "would have liked to implement the plan for a post-Castro Country that we had prepared."[1]