David Deutschmann is an internationally recognized scholar on Cuba, having worked and researched there for more than 40 years. He co-founded Ocean Press in 1989 and later its sister Spanish language publisher Ocean Sur, an international independent publishing project with a focus on books about Latin America. He has edited numerous books, including Fidel Castro Reader, Che Guevara Reader and Che: A Memoir by Fidel Castro. He was an advisor to Steven Soderbergh’s two-part biopic on Che Guevara released in 2008.
