Who killed Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá?

Sandokan · May 3, 2017

The economic collapse of Venezuela was not taking into consideration by the Obama administration. Doing business with the Castroit regime is certainly beneficial to it. Why bother with expanding business ties with the Castroit regime if basic human rights issues continued to be ignored.

It didn't occur to the Obama administration negotiators that a convicted felons like Joanne Chesimard, who was given sanctuary by the regime, ought to have been returned home.

Sandokan · May 19, 2017

Rosa Maria Paya returned to Cuba today, May 8, 2017 under a climate of repression
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: Rosa Maria Paya returned to Cuba today, May 8, 2017 under a climate of repression

Monday, May 8, 2017

Alert: arrest of Cuba Decide coordinators prior to the arrival of Rosa Maria Paya in Havana Cuba.

Rosa Maria Payá on her way to Havana this morning.

Today May 8, 2017, Cuba Decide's coordinators: Sayli Navarro, Iván Hernández Carrillo and Félix Navarro Rodríguez had been arrested by police security agents and police. Arbitrary arrests occurred early in the morning as they headed to the Jose Marti International Airport to welcome the Cuban Decide promoter Rosa Maria Payá.

Rosa Maria returned to Havana as part of her work for the campaign which aims to bring about the Binding Plebiscite. The people arrested include: Sayli Navarro and her father Felix Navarro at 5:30am in Perico, Matanzas and Iván Hernández Carrillo at 5:00am in Colon, Matanzas.

They were on their way to Havana to wait at the airport for the arrival of Rosa Maria Payá in order to work on Cuba Decide. Before the news of the recent arrests and in what appears to be an offensive against the organizers of Cuba Decide.

Rosa Maria still decided to continue her trip and landed in Havana today at 10:45 am and was subjected to a thorough search and interrogation before being allowed to leave the airport.
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When Rosa Maria Payá arrived at the Havana airport, she was detained by the regime political police. They removed her documents, baggage and lead her to an unknown place where she was interrogated by the political police. Just a “routine procedure”, they told her. She was released later on and wonder when her Cuban passport will be returned to her.

Sandokan · Jun 1, 2017

Rosa Maria Payá said: “The year is beginning amid a wave of repression that reminds me intensely of the prelude to the spring of 2003, before the jailing of the leaders of the Valera Project during the trial of the 75. I’m going home, I will be with my friends.” Brave lady she is, like her murdered father Oswaldo Payá, who started the Valera Project in 1998, a proposal law advocating for democratic political reforms in Cuba.

Sandokan · Jul 4, 2017

Forget Castro: Next month we observe five years since two were killed that would've led a free Cuba transition
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: Forget Castro: Next month we observe five years since two were killed that would've led a free Cuba transition

POSTED BY JOHN SUAREZ
June 30, 2017

The talk today is of globalization, but we must state that unless there is global solidarity, not only human rights but also the right to remain human will be jeopardized. - Oswaldo Paya, December 17, 2002.

History knows the names Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel, Mart Laar, and Vytautas Landsbergis all of whom presided over the liberation of their countries: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, and Lithuania respectively. These movements had the solidarity of the free world and the Catholic Church which offered a measure of protection and moral support that made a difference.

Sadly others have not had such support. This is the case with dissidents in China and the moral failing of the West to back Chinese democrats in 1989 in order to pursue commercial interests with their communist oppressors. The consequences are seen today with an aggressive communist regime in China with a modern military that backs rogue regimes such as North Korea. The political show trial of Chinese scholar, dissident and Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo in 2009 who has spent the past eight years unjustly imprisoned and today faces terminal liver cancer and the specter of medical neglect while in the custody of the Chinese communists.

Harold Cepero (age 32) was a youth leader in the Christian Liberation Movement of which Oswaldo Payá was a founder. In 2002 he was expelled from the university for his role in a petition drive to reform Cuban laws to bring them in line with international human rights standards. At the time he wrote a statement on the injustice of what was taking place not only for him, but Cuban society as a whole:
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Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero were killed in 2012 when the car they were riding in was run off the road by agents of the Castroit regime. The international community shall support Rosa María Payá, daughter of the late Oswaldo Payá, initiative of holding a plebiscite to bring democracy to the Cuban people still leaving under the Castroit tyrannical regime.

Sandokan · Aug 21, 2017

The values that Oswaldo Payá fought for in Cuba must not be forgotten. The voices of the dissidents, despite beatings, jailing and persecution, demanding democracy and human rights in Cuba, shall be supported by the western democracies. Peaceful relations with the Castroit regime will not be achieved by ignoring the regime’s brutality and human rights crimes.

Sandokan · Sep 11, 2017

Google’s Broken Promise to Cubans
Google's Broken Promise to Cubans and Its Opposition Leaders

The company denies access to a pro-democracy website, blames the embargo.
By Mary Anastasia O’Grady

Aug. 27, 2017 5:09 p.m. ET

Cuban opposition leader Rosa Maria Paya, in Havana, Feb. 22. PHOTO: ALEJANDRO ERNESTO/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

During his March 2016 visit to Cuba, Barack Obama raved about an impending Google-Cuba deal “to start setting up more Wi-Fi access and broadband access on the island.” Greater access, he predicted, would mean “more information [that] allows [the Cuban people] to have more of a voice.”

Eighteen months later Mr. Obama’s forecast looks worse than a hollow platitude. Google has become a supplier of resources to the regime so that Raúl Castro can run internet at faster speeds for his own purposes. Meanwhile the company appears to be wholly uninterested in the Cuban struggle for free speech, as the island democracy project “Cuba Decide” learned last month.

Google started out making big promises to Cubans. In a March 2016 blog post, Brett Perlmutter, “Cuba Lead” for Google Access, boasted that the company was “thrilled to partner” with a regime-owned museum, featuring a Castro-approved artist. “New technologies and improved internet access can . . . help harness a country’s creativity and ingenuity,” Mr. Perlmutter wrote without the slightest irony.
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Google walked back their mission statement of "making money without doing evil". Promises, promises. Google is helping the Castroit regime censor the internet. It can help the Cuban people, but it would not happen if keep collaborating with the regime.

Sandokan · Sep 26, 2017

Let’s hope that Google sees the light and returns to its original mission statement of "making money without doing evil." They are a powerful tech company that could do a lot of good in Cuba but that's not going to happen collaborating with the Castroit tyrannical regime.

Sandokan · Oct 9, 2017

“To Set Men Against Men is an Appalling Task”
?To Set Men Against Men is an Appalling Task? – Translating Cuba

Rosa Maria Paya, September 5, 2017

Iván Hernández Carrillo. (Twitter / @ivanlibre)

14ymedio, Rosa Maria Payá, Miami, 4 September 2017 — In the early hours of September 1st they did it again. It happened just as it did 14 years ago when, in March of 2003, the Cuban regime arrested dozens of Varela Project activists and independent journalists. This time the assault lasted 10 hours.

Listening to the narration of the vexations perpetrated by the political police at the home of the former prisoner of conscience Iván Hernández Carrillo was like reliving the horror unleashed in 2003, when the repression tried to abort Cuban Spring, as my father, Oswaldo Payá, called the historical conjuncture where the dictatorship felt more exposed and cornered than ever.

Over two days, the repressors of the Ministry of Interior broke into the houses of most of the leaders of the Varela Project, most of whom were dear friends of our family. The triggering cause was that this legal initiative was getting the support not only of civil society, but also of a large part of the citizenry, which was sufficient reason to imprison 75 peaceful opponents throughout the island. On that occasion the searches seemed to go on forever, as they do today, and were and are brutally humiliating.
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1. Iván is one of the dissidents that was among the former political prisoners of conscience, the Group of 75 during Cuba’s Black Spring of 2003, who still remains in Cuba. In August 2016, he was invited to participate in the second Cuban National Conference to take place in Puerto Rico, but was not allow to leave the country. Since October 7 the regime keeps a police cordon around his home. Let hope that he will not suffer and accident similar to the one that cause the death of Oswaldo Payá on 2012.

Sandokan · Oct 25, 2017

Iván Hernández was arrested by State Security on September 11, and released without been charged the next day. On September 29 he was cited for an oral judgment on October 17 for non-payment of a fine. Obviously this is just an excused. This is a repressive escalate against him and his organization.

Sandokan · Nov 19, 2017

Remembering some of the victims of Cuban communism: Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: Remembering some of the victims of Cuban communism: Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas

POSTED BY JOHN SUAREZ
NOVEMBER 11, 2017

"When one man dies it's a tragedy. When thousands die it's statistics." - Josef Stalin

Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas 1952 - 2012 murdered by Castro regime

Some psychologists argue that as the number of victims increase into the hundreds, and thousands that compassion collapses out of the human fear of being overwhelmed. In the case of Cuba the communist regime has killed tens of thousands, and many have become numb in the face of this horror. Therefore on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the first communist regime in Russia, that caused so much harm around the world, will focus on the small corner of Cuba and on an infinitesimal sampling of some of the victims of Cuban communism. These took place during my years of activism, and I knew some of the victims personally, and remain outraged at the injustice and continuing impunity. The first entry concerned a humble bricklayer turned courageous human rights defender who paid the ultimate price for speaking truth to power. This entry focuses on a Catholic lay activist, nonviolence icon, husband, father of three and the founder of a Cuban opposition movement that shook the foundation of the Castro regime with a simple demand that human rights be respected and reformed in Cuba using the existing constitution. This audacious action and continuing speaking truth to power led to a suspicious death that appears to have been a political assassination by the communist regime in Cuba.
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Seems that many Americans have forgotten that 90 miles south of Key West the Castroit regime continuous to oppress the Cuban people. The regime would use all the available means like blackmail, kidnapping, lethal force, and many others to remain in power.

Sandokan · Dec 19, 2017

The extrajudicial killing of fleeing Cubans refugees has been an ongoing practice of the Castroit tyrannical regime for near six decades. Cubans have died by the tens of thousands (men, women, and children) trying to escape from the Castroit paradise since 1959.

Sandokan · Jan 4, 2018

Rafters’ death toll is extremely high. The estimate number of the victims was derived by Dr. Armando Lago econometric research from data in studies by the Oceanographic Institute of the University of Miami and the University of Havana, and reports by the U.S. Coast Guard.

The estimate number of Cuban rafters attempting to escape from 1959 to 2016 surpass 240,000. The U.S. Coast Guard estimates that only one in four rafters who have attempted to escape from the island, mostly by sea in small boats and makeshift rafts keep afloat by using inner tubes and disregards tires as floating devises, has been successful, about 60,000; another 35% have been captured, over 84,000, and many of them send back, and 42%, more than 96,000, have died at sea attempting to escape.

Sandokan · Jan 18, 2018

Rosa Maria Payá blasts away at “dynastic succession” and “fraudulent change” in Cuba
https://babalublog.com/2018/01/15/r...tic-succession-and-fraudulent-change-in-cuba/

January 15, 2018 by Carlos Eire

Normally, we do not post entire articles.

This is an exception.

Since this interview with Rosa Maria Payá is only available in Spanish, we are posting all of it, because it needs to be widely distributed and shared beyond the Spanish-speaking world.
Loosely translated from Marti Noticias:

In an interview with the digital media Zeta, the coordinator of Cuba Decide spoke about the need for real change in Cuba.

The supposed change of power in Cuba announced by Raul Castro next April is not an isolated event, but a dynastic succession prepared for years by the Castro power dome, said the opposition Rosa María Payá in an exclusive interview with the digital media Zeta.

The young dissident hopes that this process, which her father Oswaldo Payá called “fake change”, will be derailed.

“We have been working very hard in recent times to achieve a legitimate, plural electoral process, which is the only way to achieve a Cuban government that is internationally validated,” he said, referring to the Cuba Decide project, which he coordinates together with other opponents. to the regime of Raúl Castro. Click link above for full article.

Rosa María Payá is a very brave young lady, she is risking her life trying to gather support as coordinator of Cuba Decide for a democratic transition in the island. Her father, Oswaldo Payá, founder of the Varela Project, which advocated for democratic political reforms in Cuba, was killed by the tyrannical Castroit regime. The regime is capable to do whatever it takes to remain in power. They will keep committing murder, persecute, arrest and torture the dissidents. But like everything in live it’s end is approaching.

Sandokan · Feb 1, 2018

Rosa María Payá project of “civil disobedience and nonviolent struggle”, is aimed to gather moral support and solidarity of the international community to hold a plebiscite that will give “the opportunity to the Cubans to decide their future” in a peaceful way. So far the democratic countries that recognize the Castroit regime, have been turning a blind eye to the tragedies, pain and deaths caused to the Cuban people during 59 years of tyrannical rule.

Sandokan · Feb 17, 2018

Trump, UN and OAS Asked To Not Recognize Transfer of Power In Cuba Without Free Elections
Trump, UN and OAS Asked To Not Recognize Transfer of Power In Cuba Without Free Elections – Translating Cuba

February 9, 2018, EFE, Oswaldo Paya, Rosa María Paya Acevedo, Translator: Regina Anavy

Activist Rosa María Payá in front of the new Cuban Embassy in Washington. (Twitter)

EFE via 14ymedio, Miami, 7 February 2018 — On Tuesday, February 6, the Miami-Dade County Commission requested that the United States Government, the Organization of American States and the United Nations not recognize a possible transfer of power in Cuba if it is not the result of free elections.

The petition was contained in a resolution supported by Commissioner José Díaz on the occasion of tribute paid by the Miami-Dade Commission to the Cuban dissident, Rosa Maria Payá, for her work as the founder and coordinator of the Cuba Decide campaign.

The campaign is aimed at mobilizing the Cuban people to organize a binding plebiscite in which citizens can decide on the political system they want, according to an official of the Miami-Dade Commission.

In the resolution, which was unanimously approved, the Commission adopted Rosa Maria Payá’s call for the United States Government, the United Nations and the Organization of American States to “not recognize any succession of power in Cuba without free and multiparty elections that restore the self-determination of the Cuban people.”
Since Raúl Castro announced his intention to step down from the presidency, it is expected that his successor will be elected in a vote without opposition candidates on the electoral ballot.

“The Cuban people deserve the right to decide their own future in free, open and multiparty elections, not by a simulated vote orchestrated by the Communist regime,” said Commissioner Díaz.

Payá, the daughter of the dissident, Oswaldo Payá, who died in an automobile crash that his family believes was provoked by Castro agents in 2012, said that Cubans “need” the international community to support them in order to prevent a “dynastic succession” in Cuba.
Translated by Regina Anavy

Rosa Maria Payá call to action to not recognize the current electoral process in Cuba as legitimate since those in power were not elected by the Cuban people. She is asking support for the Cuban people and their right to change the actual system through a plebiscite.

Sandokan · Mar 4, 2018

OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro, announced a forthcoming petition to OAS member states not to recognize the Castro regime's succession and to exclude the regime from the upcoming 2018 Summit of the Americas. His speech featured the strongest condemnations against the Castro regime, a historic statement that reflects the Castro regime's growing isolation and Cuba Decide's ability to align the hemisphere in a resolute strategy to democratize Cuba.

Video of OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro in support of Cuba Decide path to democracy.

Sandokan · Mar 19, 2018

Witness Project: Rosa María Payá

Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation

Published on Feb 28, 2018

Oswaldo Payá was murdered by the Castro brothers because he dared to believe his country could be free from the grip of communism. Today, his daughter Rosa María tells the inspirational story of his fight against communism and wages her own battle to finally bring democracy to Cuba.

Rosa María Payá start the video with this phrase: “I want to see the criminals who run Cuba, FACE Justice”.

One thing that is unavoidable is change, and when it happens will not be possible to pardon and forget. It is absolutely necessary to judge and condemn the crimes perpetrated by the high-ranking officials of the Castroit tyrannical regime. ¡Justice must be done!

Sandokan · Apr 6, 2018

Pastrana and Quiroga Deportation Reveals Castro is as Totalitarian as Ever
https://panampost.com/orlando-avend...on-reveals-castro-is-as-totalitarian-as-ever/

While the world has largely condemned Maduro, it has largely given the equally brutal Castro regime a free pass.

By Orlando Avendaño On Mar 8, 2018

The Castro dictatorship yesterday refused entry to former presidents Andrés Pastrana of Colombia, and Jorge Quiroga of Bolivia. Both traveled to Havana to receive the Oswaldo Payá award given by the Latin American Youth Network for Democracy.

Pastrana and Quiroga are decorated for their commitment to democracy in the region and, particularly, for their commitment to the struggle for freedom in Venezuela. The two former presidents promoted the creation of the IDEA group [Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas], whose objective is to prevent Venezuela from following the path of the island. Their efforts will be recognized this Thursday, March 8, in Havana.
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On March 7, the former president of Colombia, Andres Pastrana, and the former president of Bolivia, Tuto Quiroga, were detained at Havana’s airport upon their arrival, and were denied entry and deported. The regime also denied a visa to travel to Cuba to the General Secretary of the Organization of American States (OEA) Luis Almagro. The former presidents went to Cuba on behalf of the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA), a forum of 37 former presidents and heads of state, to receive the “Oswaldo Payá Life and Liberty Award” from Cuba Decide organization.

For 59 years the Castroit tyrannical regime has been able to get away with murder, repression, violation of all human rights with impunity for its criminal acts against the Cuban people.

Sandokan · Apr 23, 2018

Rosa María Payá Delivers Human Rights Award Despite Police Surveillance
Dissident | Rosa María Payá Delivers Human Rights Award Despite Police Surveillance

by Dissident
March 8, 2018

This International Women's Day, @RosaMariaPaya is delivering the second annual Oswaldo Payá Prize, despite police harassment #IWD2018The #Castro regime can suppress free speech, movement, and assembly, but it can't silence the truth.

Today, Rosa María Payá, Cuban human rights activist and subject of our newest Witness Project video, awarded a prize in Havana—despite the fact that the recipients had been deported from the country and the location of the ceremony was surrounded by state security agents.

The award in question was the Oswaldo Payá Prize, named for Rosa María’s father, a prominent Cuban dissident and political activist killed in 2012, and this year’s laureate was the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA), an international forum comprised of 37 democratically elected former heads of state and government who work to promote the strengthening of democratic governance.
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The spread of democratic ideas over time bring down entrenched dictatorial governments and restore democracy. Rosa María and the rest of Cuban democratic activists will bring down the Castroit regime and democracy will be restore.

José Martí, apostle of Cuban Independence, said: “Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.”

Sandokan · May 10, 2018

Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) gathers 10,000 signatures in Cuba for the freedom of its leader Eduardo Cardet
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) gathers 10,000 signatures in Cuba for the freedom of its leader Eduardo Cardet

Posted by JOHN SUAREZ
APRIL 7, 2018

State Security intercepts and arrests Rosa María Rodríguez #RosaMariaMCL when she was going to deliver them to the State Council.

Eduardo Cardet Concepción and Rosa María Rodríguez Gil

Translated from the MCL website with minor changes.

Yesterday, April 5, Rosa María Rodríguez Gil, member of the Coordinating Council of the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL), went with her husband, Alejandro Febles, to the Council of State to deliver 10,000 signatures for the freedom of Eduardo Cardet, leader of the MCL currently in prison. Several State Security agents detained them and seized the signatures. [Rosa and Alejandro were held for 24 hours.]

During the interrogations, the agents wanted to obtain information on how it had been possible for the MCL to have been able to collect such a large number of signatures in such a short time, signatures that include the name and identity number of the citizens, exercising the legal right to make petitions proceeded to join that campaign.

Rosa María Rodríguez demanded the return of the signatures, the agents refused, so she asked them to give her a document stating that the Cuban Government through State Security was in possession of said signatures.
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Eduardo Cardet, a doctor with more than 20 years of work, joined the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) after the arrests of 2013, during the “Black Spring.” Oswaldo Payá, leader of the MCL, was murdered in July 2012, an in 2014 Cardet was elected leader of the MCL.

It is said that he was arrested after some statements he made after Fidel Castro's death, but he was being threatened with imprisonment before that. Obviously, his imprisonment was not for what he said after the death, but rather the work he was doing on the island with “One Cuban, One Vote.”

Sandokan · Jun 1, 2018

The "One Cuban, One Vote" initiative was presented to the National Assembly of Popular Power. It seems that they began to fear this campaign, which demands a new electoral law that recognizes free elections, in which all Cubans can vote and be elected.

Obviously he is being punished because he is a potential danger to the Castroit regime, for expressing what he thinks, for being an example for the community, and for being a voice that people listen to.

Sandokan · Jun 29, 2018

Project Varela: Looking back at the nonviolent campaign 16 years later
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: Project Varela: Looking back at the nonviolent campaign 16 years later

Posted by John Suarez
May 10, 2018

The nonviolent campaign that shook up the dictatorship in Cuba, changed the Cuban Communist Constitution and continues to haunt the Castro regime.

Oswaldo Payá, Tony Diaz Sanchez, and Regis Iglesias 16 years ago.

16 years ago today, carrying 11,020 signed petitions in support of the Varela Project, Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, Antonio Diaz Sanchez, and Regis Iglesias Ramírez walked with the bulky card board boxes labeled Project Varela turning them into the Cuban National Assembly. The New York Times reported on this historic event:
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This is what Senator Ted Cruz said in a resolution honoring Oswaldo Payá: “Oswaldo Payá dedicated his life to the cause of liberty in Cuba. Though the Castro regime sought to stifle his work, his legacy continues to serve & inspire freedom-loving Cubans. We honor his memory, his fight for democracy & his commitment to freedom.”

Oswaldo Payá was one of the dissidents that the Castroit regime most feared. That is the reason why they killed him.

Sandokan · Jul 15, 2018

Murdered Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas book to be presented at Our Lady of Charity
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: Murdered Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas's book to be presented at Our Lady of Charity

"This book is a beacon for the future of Cuba, a vision of the precious freedom for which Oswaldo Payá fought all his life, and this will inspire new generations." - David Hoffman of The Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize winner
POSTED BY JOHN SUAREZ
JULY 5, 2018

The long awaited book by Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas is available today on Amazon and published by Editorial Hypermedia Inc.

On July 2, 2018 over social media Rosa María Payá announced that the book titled "The night will not be eternal" Unpublished book my dad wrote for all of us is about to be released. Cuba: The legacy of Oswaldo Payá. At the moment of greatest validity. This is the way, you can't miss it. We're very happy and grateful."
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Oswaldo Payá, leader of the Cristian Liberation Movement CLM), and Harold Cepero, a younger leader of the Movement, were assassinated on July 22, 2012, in an attack executed by the State Security of the Castroit regime. Payá started the Varela Project in 1998, and in 2002 Cepero was expelled from the University for collecting signatures for the Varela Project. Your death will not be in vain. Already it is inspiring others to continue the struggle for a democratic Cuba, “With All and for the Good of All”, José Martí.

SDET · Jul 15, 2018

Sandokan said:
Oswaldo Payá, leader of the Cristian Liberation Movement CLM), and Harold Cepero, a younger leader of the Movement, were assassinated on July 22, 2012, in an attack executed by the State Security of the Castroit regime. Payá started the Varela Project in 1998, and in 2002 Cepero was expelled from the University for collecting signatures for the Varela Project. Your death will not be in vain. Already it is inspiring others to continue the struggle for a democratic Cuba, “With All and for the Good of All”, José Martí.

What do you say to the ordinary, non-Communist Cubans that says "stop being a martyr for a lost cause"? Their mentality is to just be as invisible as possible and hope the regime doesn't notice you. Some very smart people have tried to dislodge the Castro-Commies for almost 60 years. How can anyone think they are that clever? Why fall on a sword for no possible victory?

Sandokan · Jul 23, 2018

SDET said:
What do you say to the ordinary, non-Communist Cubans that says "stop being a martyr for a lost cause"? Their mentality is to just be as invisible as possible and hope the regime doesn't notice you. Some very smart people have tried to dislodge the Castro-Commies for almost 60 years. How can anyone think they are that clever? Why fall on a sword for no possible victory?

History teach us that victory is possible when certain human beings have the wisdom and courage to believe that change for the better is possible, and dedicate their lives to reach that outcome. It happened before and will happened again. The first martyrs for Cuba independence took place in 1826 when Agüero and Sanchez were executed. Again in 1844 Cubans conspired to gain independence from Spain. Among the executed was Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Plácido), a renowned poet accused of being the supreme head of the conspiracy. In 1851, Narciso López expedition took place and he, Coronel Crittenden with another 49 Americans were captured and executed. From 1868 to 1878 took place the Ten Year’ War that ended in a standoff with the signing of an armistice. From 1879 to 1880 took place The Little War and from 1895 to 1898 The War of Independence. Among the dead was José Martí, the Apostle of the Cuban War of Independence. From June 6 to December 10 1998 took place the Spanish-Cuban-American War. From January 1999 to May 20, 1902, a U.S. Military Governor was in charge of the government in Cuba until President-elect Tomas Estrada Palma took office and the island won its independence. It took 78 years, three generation and many martyrs, but victory was accomplished. There is a proverb that says, “There is no evil that lasts a hundred years, nor body that endure it.”