Magaly Llaguno, Founder of Vida Humana Internacional (VHI) [the Hispanic division of HLI] and Director of U.S. Hispanic Outreach for VHI

Mrs. Llaguno was born in Cuba and came to live in the U.S. in 1959. She was educated at a Methodist school in Havana and attended Villanueva Catholic University, where she became interested in knowing more about the Catholic Church.  She had been baptized a Catholic but was not attending mass. She “reverted” to Catholicism at a Cursillo in Christianity in 1970. Two years later she founded Comite Pro Vida Internacional, a pro-life organization she presided over for more than 12 years. She was a founding at-large board member of the National Right to Life Committee and a founding board member of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. In 1984 Father Paul Marx asked her to establish the Hispanic Division of Human Life International (HLI) in Miami, Florida. In 1991, on the occasion of the First Pro-Life World Meeting in Rome, Magaly gave to His Holiness Blessed John Paul II, an album containing pictures of the work of HLI in Latin America and thanked him for his courageous defense of human life. In 1996 she received from Father Marx  the International Human Life Award for that year, given “to the person who has done the most in defense of unborn babies” . On July 7, 2007, she received also from HLI, the annual Cardinal Von Galen Award.

Magaly has organized for HLI and given talks at more than 20 pro-life/family conferences in the U.S. and Hispanic countries, written many articles, participated in many radio and TV programs, and co-hosted a 13 part TV series on abortion which was broadcasted  on EWTN.