Ernesto Mario Bravo

He graduated as an industrial chemist and received his doctorate. He settled in Cuba in the early 1960s and was appointed professor of Biochemistry at the Institute of Basic and Preclinical Sciences "Victoria de Girón" after the School of Medicine of the University of Havana, later the Institute of Medical Sciences of Havana and since 2009, University of Medical Sciences of Havana. In parallel, he was linked to documentary cinema and in 2001 he was the executive producer and wrote Fidel's libretto, a documentary directed by his wife Estela Bravo and that received the Honor Award at the Istanbul International Film Festival in 2003 and at the Underworld Film Festival in New York in 2003. He was also the screenwriter of Operation Peter Pan - closing the circle in Cuba and co-directed Mandela and Fidel (2013). For his work in the cinema, the Union of Journalists of Cuba (UPEC) awarded him as well as his wife in January 2014 with the Commemorative Coin of his 50th Anniversary, for the contribution of both to the work of the Revolution. Bravo has written several books, including: The Soviet University, Modern Medicine in Cuba and Biomedicine in Cuba: Development in Underdevelopment edited by the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.