John Suarez is the Executive Director at the Center for a Free Cuba. Mr. Suarez was previously program officer for Latin America Programs at Freedom House and has been interviewed by TV, radio and print media on the human rights situation in Cuba. He has testified before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington DC, the Human Rights Council in Geneva, and served as an interpreter for Cuban dissidents in Congressional hearings.Since 2009 he has maintained the blog Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter.