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Career
Ana María García is Cuban-Puerto Rican film director. She is best known for the short documentary La Operación (1982) a film which focuses on US-imposed sterilization policies in Puerto Rico. García received her Bachelors at Columbia University, her Masters at University of New York, and her PhD at University of Puerto Rico. She has a PhD in Philosophy, and a major in Caribbean Literature and Language.She graduated with High Honors. In this documentary, they focus on female sterilization, hence the name “La Operación. García is known for how she used influences from former Cuban documentaries to help portray hers. She used directors with a Cuban background, her soundtrack for the film is Cuban folk songs, she was just doing everything she could to make it a very authentic documentary. In her documentary she interviewed many women to see what they though about the sterilization of one third of the women in Puerto Rico, mostly Afro-Puerto Rican women.