UNITED NATIONS: US ambassador Samantha Power has asked Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parilla to investigate the death ofCuban dissident Oswaldo Paya last year. Paya was the lead organizer of the Varela Project, a signature-gathering drive regarded as the largest nonviolent campaign to change the system…
Author of the article in front of the house of Oswaldo Paya after an act of repudiation. “It was in the late eighties when I first met Paya – a young man who had already had first-hand experience with punishment…
In a World of Conflict, UNESCO Celebrates Che Guevara, Ignores Oswaldo Payá “Already many Cubans have discovered and soon all of them will discover that this oppression, that this imposed lie, can be overcome recognizing ourselves as brothers to conquer…
Declaración del Movimiento Cristiano Liberación en el Primer Aniversario de las muertes de Oswaldo Payá y Harold Cepero Transcurrido un año de las muertes provocadas de Harold Cepero Escalante, activista del Movimiento Cristiano Liberación y de Oswaldo Paya Sardiñas, nuestro…
Suspicious death of Cuban political activist Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas Liberal International (LI) welcomes the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation with Human Rights Defenders to the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly, Mrs. Margaret Sekaggya, which…
The suspicious and untimely deaths of Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas and Harold Cepero Escalante1. On the afternoon of July 22, 2012 Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas the founder of one of our member parties, the Christian Liberation Movement, along with fellow party activist…
By Editorial Board, Wednesday, April 10, 1:45 AM ACAR WRECK on a road outside of Bayamo, Cuba, last July 22 tragically took the life of dissident Oswaldo Payá and youth activist Harold Cepero. The circumstances of their deaths are suspicious and need investigation. But whoever…
Read more: WASHINGTON — When Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, 60, one of Cuba’s most famous — and intensely devout — Catholic activists was killed on July 22, 2012, his family, friends and human-rights advocates around the world considered the tragic death suspicious. Now…
AN EDITORIAL: Questions about a dissident’s death in Cuba won’t go Washington PostThe car crash that killed dissident Oswaldo Paya and the youth activist Harold Cepero in eastern Cuba last July was on a rural road. As with…
By Jackson Diehl, Monday, March 18, 12:57 AM Two weeks ago a brave young leader of Spain’s ruling Popular Party stepped forward tooffer a sensational, firsthand account of how one of Cuba’s leading dissidents, Oswaldo Payá, was killed last summer. Ángel Carromero said a car that…
Carta abierta a las Naciones Unidas el Secretario General Ban Ki-moon, el Alto Comisionado para los Derechos Humanos, Navi Pillay, y los embajadores de todos los Estados miembros 12 de marzo 2013 Excelencias, Le instamos a apoyar nuestra demanda…
The last time I looked in the mirror, I realized that the car had gotten too close — and suddenly I felt a thunderous impact from behind. Ángel Carromero, a leader of Spain’s ruling party, was visiting Cuba last…