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Who killed Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá?

Payá had the guts to stand up against the tyrannical Castroist regime that harassed him for decades. He was a true hero fighting the good fight, which remained in Cuba and gave up his life in the struggle against the Castroist tyrannical communist regime. Payá’s call for liberty and human rights in Cuba will be realized someday.
 
Sat, July 1, 2023

The Cuban regime finally is being held responsible for the murder of Oswaldo Payá, one of the country’s most prominent political dissidents and pro-democracy activists.

This long-awaited development comes more than a decade after Payá and fellow activist Harold Cepero were killed in a car crash. Payá’s family and supporters always believed the regime was behind it, but the government went to great lengths to establish a convenient — and false — narrative that their deaths resulted from negligent driving by Spanish youth activist Angel Carromero.

But an independent finding by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) asserts the direct involvement of state agents in the crash.

The IACHR found “serious and sufficient evidence … to conclude that state agents participated in the death” of Payá and Cepero, and that both men were subjected to violence, harassment, threats and attempts on their lives before they died.
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The Castroist communist regime that murdered the most prominent political dissidents Oswaldo Payá, founder of the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) in 1988, who used nonviolent means to demand that human rights be respected in Cuba, shall be remove from the UN Human Rights Council.
 

Who killed Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá?​


Obama, Hillary, Biden, Democrats.
 
The Castroist communist regime that murdered the most prominent political dissidents Oswaldo Payá, founder of the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) in 1988, who used nonviolent means to demand that human rights be respected in Cuba, shall be remove from the UN Human Rights Council.
Payá was capable of collecting over 25,000 signatures for the Valera Project, an outstanding achievement under the Castroist tyrannical regime. He received the Sakharov Price from the European Parliament for his efforts on behalf of human rights and fundamental freedoms.
 
By Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart and Ken Pope - - Tuesday, August 1, 2023

OPINION:

Names are important. They carry identity, meaning and tradition. As a building block of language, names enable us to communicate with others. More importantly, names build a sense of history and shared memory.

But what happens when a name is erased from history? The communist Cuban regime is trying to do just that to the legacy of Oswaldo Paya Sardinas.

We must not let them.

One of the most famous Cuban opposition leaders, Paya was a husband, father of three, and founder of the Christian Liberation Movement. He was a brave, pro-democracy activist and leader for the Cuban people, giving a voice to millions oppressed on the island nation.

On the night of July 22, 2012, Paya and fellow activist Harold Cepero were killed while driving home from a rally.

Paya was a target of the Cuban dictatorship because he was an effective, tireless advocate of religious liberty and representative government.

The regime claimed the deaths were the result of a simple car crash. But Paya’s family knew the truth: He was murdered for daring to speak out.
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The opposition leader Oswaldo Paya was targeted by the Castro’s regime because of his success as a pro-democracy activist, killing him and Cepero. In July 2023, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issued a report stating that the Cuban regime is responsible for the deaths of Paya and Cepero.
 
The Castroist communist regime is trying to erase Paya’s named from history. To avoid that, the street in front of the Cuban Embassy in Washington was rename “Oswaldo Paya Way” , in order to ensure his legacy of fighting for the freedom of the Cuban people. His call for liberty and human rights in Cuba will be take place in a non-distant future.
 
DECEMBER 24, 2023

"We have not chosen the path of peace as a tactic, but because it is inseparable from the goal for which our people are striving." - Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas
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Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace. This Christmas, Cuba’s Christian Liberation Movement reasserts its commitment to a peaceful transition to democracy and freedom in communist Cuba.

Via Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter:

Christmas Message from the Christian Liberation Movement

“We have not chosen the path of peace as a tactic, but because it is inseparable from the goal for which our people are striving.” – Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas


Twenty one years ago this week on December 17, 2002 in Strasbourg, France while receiving the Sakharov Prize from the European Union Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas explained what motivated his movement’s choice to embark on a nonviolent struggle:

“We have not chosen the path of peace as a tactic, but because it is inseparable from the goal for which our people are striving. Experience teaches us that violence begets more violence and that when political change is brought about by such means, new forms of oppression and injustice arise.”

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Oswaldo Payá was one of the most important human rights activists a few years ago in Cuba. Payá was the founder of the Varela Project and the Christian Liberation Movement. The Varela project is named after Father Felix Varela, a leading educator, philosopher and patriot of the 19th century.
 
On 2002 the European Parliament awarder Payá the Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought, and 2011 was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his peaceful efforts to guarantee fundamental human rights for all Cuban citizens. Payá paid the ultimate price for his nonviolent struggle for a free Cuba.
 
The Varela Project, which gathered 11,020 signatures for a plebiscite to allow the Cuban people to decide their own future, was delivered to the Cuban National Assembly. The Varela Project was not presented for debate before the National Assembly and the project’s leader Oswaldo Payá ended up assassinated by the Castro’s tyrannical communist regime.
 
The Varela Project, which gathered 11,020 signatures for a plebiscite to allow the Cuban people to decide their own future, was delivered to the Cuban National Assembly. The Varela Project was not presented for debate before the National Assembly and the project’s leader Oswaldo Payá ended up assassinated by the Castro’s tyrannical communist regime.
 
Miami, Florida – February 29, 2024

Today, Ofelia Acevedo, the widow of the late Cuban human rights defender Oswaldo Payá, filed a lawsuit in Dade County, Florida, against Victor Manuel Rocha, a former U.S. diplomat, whose four-decade-long collaboration with the Cuban regime was recently exposed by the U.S. Attorney General as one of the most profound penetrations of the U.S. government by a foreign agent. Payá was assassinated by the Castro regime in 2012, a period during which Rocha was collaborating with Cuba while advising U.S. national security officials and accessing America’s most sensitive intelligence.

“I seek what I have sought all along: for the truth, for justice, and for the regime and its accomplices of to stop acting with impunity,” said Acevedo.
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In 2012, Oswaldo Payá was murdered by the Castro’s regime and in 2023 the Inter American Commission on Human Rights concluded that the regime murderer Payá. At the time of his murder, Rocha was collaborating with the Castro’s regime by meeting with the regime intelligence and passing to it sensitive information. Seems that somehow Rocha is involved in the murder of Payá.
 
Posted on March 18, 2024 by Vaseline

Miami, March 18 (EFE).- Members of the Cuban exile in Miami, among them Rosa María Payá, urged the United States and the international community this Monday to put pressure on the Cuban Government in the midst of the anti-government protests that worsened this Sunday before the blackouts and lack of food.

“The people of Cuba know that to get out of this deep crisis where the dictatorship has plunged us, we must get out of the dictatorship and that is why we hear them shouting ‘freedom’,” Payá told EFE this Monday.

The activist, daughter of the late Cuban opposition leader Oswaldo Payá, asked the US president, Joe Biden, to support the protesters in Cuba by putting pressure on the repressors.

Payá, founder of Cuba Decide, denounced that the Cuban military is being summoned by the “dictatorship to repress the people.”

The message “is to stand on the side of the Cuban people and that is the same message that we have for the international community,” said Payá, who this Monday participates in a press conference in exile to ask for that support.
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Beginning on Sunday, March 17, 2024, hundreds of thousands of Cubans in more than 10 cities and towns across the country have peacefully taken to the streets demanding freedom and a change of system. The situation is critical, lack of food, water, electricity, and failures in public services from health to transportation have created a humanitarian crisis. Rosa Maria Payá in her press conference said that “The only way out of the crisis is to get rid of the dictatorship.”
 
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