Eduardo Zayas-Bazan

Eduardo Zayas-Bazán, born in Camagüey, Cuba, in 1935, comes from a prominent political family and participated as a frogman in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, where he was wounded and imprisoned before being released in a prisoner exchange.[1][2] After settling in the United States, he pursued an academic career, becoming Head of the Department of Languages at East Tennessee State University and authoring Spanish textbooks as a respected professor and Cuban exile leader.[1][3]