Henry Pollack

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Enrique Alberto Pollack-Aguilar

Born February 1961
Havana, Cuba

Henry Pollack (born as Enrique Alberto Pollack-Aguilar in February 1961, Havana, Cuba) is the host and founder of "Havana Rock," the Miami, Florida show on radio station WWFE 670 AM. He is also the editor of one of the first anti-Castro web sites on the net, 1Cubaweb.com , which went online in 1999.

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[edit] Early life

Pollack is the eldest of three children born to Enrique A. Pollack-Diehl and Loly Aguilar-Perna. He is also the great-grandson of Mark A. Pollack-Rothschild (1878-1952), the American born patriarch of a wealthy Cuban tobacco dynasty and owner of the famous "La Mansion", a neo-classical mansion in the Cubanacan Section (aka Country Club section) of Havana built in 1930 by the Cuban architect, Leonardo Morales y Pedroso (1887-1965).[1]

Pollack and his family fled Cuba when he was less than year old and he was raised in Los Angeles, California. He now resides in Miami, Florida.

[edit] Politics

Relocating to Miami, Pollack founded the Cuban-American United Students Association (CAUSA). Pollack often appears on television shows[2] due to his anti-Castro stance.[3][4]

On April 16, 2004, the Cuban government officially protested to the United Nations the Pollack's actions in Geneva after he placed posters prostesting human rights violations in Cuba next to Communist Cuban posters on display in the main hall of the Human Rights Section of the United Nations Building in Geneva.[5]

Pollack was a Congressional Aide to Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen[6] from 1993-2006 and now runs a document management agency in Miami.

[edit] Legal Problems

Pollack previously pleaded guilty to Counts 33 through 36 of an Indictment, which charged the defendant with filling prescriptions and refills for a human growth hormone in 2005.[7] [8]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Inside Cuba (html). Cologne: Taschen Books, 2006. Editions: ISBN 3822845973, ISBN 978-3-8228-4597-4 (German, French, English), ISBN 978-3-8228-4598-1 (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese).
  2. ^ "NBC Evening News for Monday, Jul 12, 1999: Florida / Cuban Refugees", Vanderbilt University Television News Archive, 12 July 1999. 
  3. ^ Associated Press. "Coast Guard won't return refugees to Cuba", CNN, 30 June 1999. "I just don't understand this", witness Enrique Pollack told WTVJ-TV. "I remember the images of people trying to cross the Berlin Wall and we're acting like Gestapo or the Stasi, keeping them from coming to freedom. They've been suffering for 40 years. Enough is enough." 
  4. ^ Michelle Marie Cobas, Master's degree thesis. Mass Media Ethics vs. Ethnic Identity: The Cuban American National Foundation's battle with the Miami Herald (pdf: search "Cobas thesis Pollack lsu" to view as html). lsu.edu.
  5. ^ (Translate page). Nota de Protesta de la Mision Permanente de Cuba en la ONU (Note of Protest of the Permanent Mission of Cuba in the UN) (html). Sitio del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Cuba (website of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations).
  6. ^ CAFE: Cubans and Americans for Educational Exchanges (html). FIU.org.
  7. ^ News Release (30 March 2007): Former Congressional Aide Sentenced for Committing Health Care Fraud (html). miami.fbi.gov.
  8. ^ Press release (1 April 2007): Former Congressional Aide Sentenced on Health Care Fraud Charges - US Attorney (html). The Law News Network: lawfuel.com.

[edit] Sources

  • La Habana, Guia de Arquitectura, Maria Elena Zequeira & Eduardo Luis Rodriguez Fernandez, editors (Sevilla, Spain: A.G. Novograf, S.A., 1998) ISBN 84-8095-143-5 (Spanish)
  • Historia de Familias Cubanas (Ediciones Universal, Miami, Florida 1985 ISBN 0-89729-380-0)
  • The Miami Herald (by Jennifer Miller) July 25, 2001
  • The Miami Herald - July 25, 2001 - "E-Mail Virus Arrives In Message Purportedly From Cuba"
  • The Miami Herald - August 25, 1998 - "Cuban Musicians Face Protest"
  • The Miami Herald - August 22, 1995 - "Reaching Cuba With Rock'n'Roll"
  • El Nuevo Herald - October 18, 1996 - "Radio Rebelde Y Emisora Del Exilio Unen Fuerzas Para Emergencia De Ciclon"
  • El Nuevo Herald - May 19, 2000 - "Henry Polack: Vehemencia Alternativa"
  • El Nuevo Herald - September 23, 1996 - "Radio De Cuba Rehusa Debate Radial Con Miami"
  • El Nuevo Herald - August 22, 1995 - "Havana Rock: Nueva Ondas De Libertad Radial A Cuba"
  • Miami New Times, May 13, 2007
  • St. Petersburg Times - September 23, 1996 - "Silence greets effort to discuss Cuba"
  • Los Propietarios de Cuba 1958, Guillermo Jimenez Soler (Havana, Cuba: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2007) (Spanish)
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