Biography: Wilfredo Cancio Isla
Wilfredo Cancio Isla joined El Nuevo Herald as a fulltime staff member in December 1998. His assignment was to report on Cuban exile affairs and politics. He first appeared on Radio Martí in 2000 as part of a discussion panel. In 2001, the broadcaster engaged Cancio for 20 minutes a week to discuss films on a new program, Commentarios .
Cancio Isla defected to the US in 1994 while in the country on a MacArthur Foundation fellowship from Havana University. In Cuba, he had worked for 12 years as a professor of communications.
Listen to Cancio on his arrival in the US.