Carlos A. Montaner - Lecture "Taiwan As A Model For Cuba 's Future"
Channel: Wenceslao Cruz
Date: 2012-02-12

Carlos Alberto Montaner, a writer and journalist, has lived in Madrid since 1970.  Montaner has been a university professor in various institutions in Latin America, the United States and Spain. Dozens of newspapers in Latin America, Spain and the United States have published his weekly column for the past 40 years. Montaner received the Tolerance Prize awarded by the Comunidad de Madrid in 2007. In 2010 he was awarded the "Juan de Mariana for a life dedicated to the defense of freedom". In 2009 the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa. Previously, the University of Applied Sciences in Peru (UPC) had appointed him a Visiting Professor. In 2007, during the democratic government of Enrique Bolaños, Nicaragua's government gave him the "Orden Rubén Darío". Montaner has published more than 25 books. Several of them have been translated into English, Portuguese, Russian and Italian. Among the better known and re-edited titles are Journey to the Heart of Cuba; How and Why Communism Disappeared;Liberty, the Key to Prosperity, and the novels Perromundo, A Dog's World, and1898: The Plot. Some of his most controversial and most widely distributed essays are the best-sellersGuide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot and Manufacturers of Misery, both co-written with Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza and Álvaro Vargas Llosa.La mujer del coronel, his third novel, was published in 2011 by Alfaguara.