• Heberto Juan Padilla (20 January 1932 – 25 September 2000) was a Cuban poet put to the center of the so-called Padilla affair when he was imprisoned for criticizing...
  • The Padilla Affair refuses to remain silent in the face of the injustices of any regime disrespectful of true democracy and the necessary freedom of creation.
  • [Full review in Spanish] Jun 6, 2023 Full Review Randy Meeks Espinof The Padilla Affair has managed to put it all together, making it not just a magnificent...
  • The Padilla affair not only meant a “parting of the waters” in the relationship between world intellectuals with the Cuban Revolution...
  • The Cuban poet Heberto Padilla, who died at the end of September, aged sixty-eight, was among those writers of whom it may be said that he made history, less by...
  • The Padilla Affair is an astonishing documentary that explores aspects of Cuba’s past that still reverberate, including the struggle for freedom of expression.
  • Havana, spring 1971: The poet Heberto Padilla has just been set free and appears before the Cuban Writers’ Union where he pronounces a statement of “heartfelt...
  • Spanish-Cuban filmmaker Pavel Giroud’s feature El caso Padilla (The Padilla Affair) may well be the most original documentary of the year precisely because of...
  • Havana, spring 1971: The poet Heberto Padilla has just been set free and appears before the Cuban...
  • The Padilla Affair, directed by the Cuban film-maker Pavel Giroud, charts the poet’s fall from grace: he began as a supporter of the revolution led by Fidel Castro...