Christopher Columbus The Hero: About the Author

Picture from Columbus’ Documentary “Courage and Conviction”

Rafael Ortiz is the author of several books on Christopher Columbus, including “Christopher Columbus The Hero.” He appeared in the documentary “Courage and Conviction: The True Story of Christopher Columbus”, which was released on TV (EWTN) in 2020. He has been interviewed many times for radio, blogs, magazines, including The Joe Piscopo (Radio) Show, ABC7 News, Breitbart, and many others. He has also written articles for newspapers, blogs, news sites, both in the USA and Puerto Rico.

Rafael is the admin and blogger for the Christopher Columbus The Hero blog and he has collaborated with the knowcolumbus.org website as well. He is often sought by Italian American and pro-Columbus groups and individuals, including The Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America, Italian American One Voice Coalition, The Knights of Columbus, among many others.

He has defended Columbus and Columbus Day around the country in city councils, schools and universities. He has spoken in Washington DC, Chicago, North Carolina, South Carolina, Colorado, Florida, etc.

Rafael is a member of the National Christopher Columbus Association. He is Hispanic of Indigenous (Taino) descent born in Puerto Rico. Today he lives in South Carolina with his family. His mission is to disprove modern-day revisionism based on objective truth rooted on primary historical source material.