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Cuban journalist

Mirta Ojito is a Cuban-born author and journalist.

She has written two nonfiction books, Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus a book about her journey to the U.S. as a teenager in the Mariel boatlift, and Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town." She was part of a group of New York Times reporters who shared the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2001 for a series of articles about race in America.

More recently, she was a member of the Telemundo team that won an Emmy for the coverage of Pope Francis's visit to the Americas.

Mirta ojito biography of michael

Early life

Born on February 10, 1964, in Cuba, Ojito was raised in the Santos Suárez neighborhood of Havana. Her parents disliked the Communist regime and always told her one day they would leave Cuba. That day came on May 10, 1980, when Ojito and h