Henry Pollack

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Henry Pollack aka Enrique Pollack was born in Havana, Cuba in 1962. Henry is the great-grandson of Mark Pollack-Rothschild, the American born patriarch of a wealthy Cuban tobacco dynasty and owner of the famous "La Mansion" in Havana, Cuba, a posh neo-classical mansion in the Country Club section of Havana. Henry Pollack was raised in the United States in Los Angeles, California. Relocating to Miami, Florida, Pollack founded a group, the Cuban-American United Students Association or CAUSA which has been credited as pressuring the Clinton administration to allow entry to the Cuban rafters detained at the Guantanamo Naval Base in 1993. He also founded a highly successful Miami radio show, Havana Rock on WWFE 670 AM. The radio show is considered by many to be a right of center progressive talk show which has many listeners in South Florida as well as in Cuba. Pollack is said to have an almost cult following in Cuba among young listeners. His show is considered the only progressive radio show in a sea of aging anti-Castro radio programs in Miami. He is also the editor of one of the first anti-Castro web sites on the net, www.123CUBA.com,link titlewhich went online in 1999 and continues to have a loyal Web audience. The web site is an interesting mix of pro free Cuba articles as well as exposés on the war against terror and many articles calling for improved social policy including an end to what he calls "wage slavery". He has been an aide to Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and now runs a successful document management agency in Miami. He often appears on many television shows due to his staunch anti-Castro stance. He is considered by many to be a more progressive voice for the Cuban-American exile community in South Florida and a connoisseur of popular rock music which get played on his show.