Yoe Suárez
- Producer
- Writer
- Director
Yoe Suárez (Havana, 1990) Journalist, writer and Cuban documentalist. Author of non-fiction books such as La otra isla (Michael Jacobs Scholarship Finalist 2016 and International Book Latino Award 2019), En esta ribera mi cuerpo (Mention at the Casa de las Américas Award 2018), El soplo del demonio. Violence and gangs in Havana (2018), turned into a medium-length documentary Punkie, and Leviatan. Political Police and Socialist Terror (Ilíada Award 2021). He coordinated Espectros (2016), the first anthology of Cuban narrative journalism.
His books has been translated into English and Italian. Won the Editorial Hypermedia Reportage Award 2017 and 2018. He published in The Hill, Newsweek, Univision, Vice, El Español, El Espectador. Was a correspondent for the American channel CBN News in Havana.
Some of his stories were taken to the audiovisual, and several reports to the comic in the book Break of spirit (2021). He appears in anthologies of journalism, poetry and essays inside and outside of Cuba.
The Cuban-German writer Amir Valle, said in 2018 that Suárez was "one of the most important Cuban young journalist in the present". The Colombian journalist Alberto Salcedo Ramos, in 2020, wrote that "[Suárez] is a talented writer. His voice shows a notable sagacity to write with charm. It's not common that someone so young has such a decanted voice". About him, the Cuban novelist Fran Correa, describes him as "a cult intellectual, when you know him you wish you had a brother like him in your youth (...) he draw the fights and participates, maybe that's why at these moments, as a journalist, he is one of the victims of the State's culture of violence". The United States senator Marco Rubio, recognized in 2021 that Suarez's work as a journalist under totalitarianism made him a "victim of the Castro's repressive wave because the simple fact of writing the truth".
