For the past week, the Cuban government has sponsored a photo exhibition honoring professional interpreters and translators. This is the 35^th anniversary of the show, which features both black and white and color prints of interpreters helping aid communication between Cuban personalities and political figures and those from all over the globe during various events.

Some of the famous figures being aided in the photographs by mostly anonymous interpreters include civil rights activist Angela Davis during her visit to the country and film director Steven Spielberg. In addition, Fidel Castro is seen in the photographs while speaking through an interpreter to visiting government personalities such as Nelson Mandela and Yasser Arafat.

Although most of the translators are unnamed, the exhibit dedicated a section of the show to Argentinean communist Tamara Bunke. Bunke assisted Ernesto Che Guevara’s guerilla group in Bolivia, which ended in her death alongside the Argentinean revolutionary.

13 July 2008