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Oswaldo Payá invited to European Parliament Human Rights Conference (in Spanish)

ntekeei — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:41:45 +0000

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Cuba Encuentro

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11/07/2011

Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, the 2002 recipient of NDI’s W. Averell Harriman Democracy Award and the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought was recently invited to the High-Level Human Rights conference in Brussels by European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek. In 1997, Payá founded the Varela Project, which uses nonviolent means to promote human rights. He is also coordinator of the Christian Liberation Movement (Movimiento Cristiano de Liberación).

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Crushing Dissent in Cuba

fgalleto — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:00:45 +0000

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Boston Globe

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08/19/2011

This editorial in the Bostong Globe criticizes the Castro government for increasing violence and attackes on the Ladies in White, a nonviolent protest group in Cuba. The group made up of women whose husbands, brothers and fathers are dissidents imprisoned by the Castro regime.

"In one attack, the Miami Herald reported last week, the women were assaulted with “steel bars, rocks, and fists’’ as they left Mass in the cathedral of Santiago, the island’s second-largest city. At least eight of the women ended up in the hospital, where they required stitches and other treatment for their wounds. According to Elizardo Sanchez, one of Cuba’s leading human-rights activists, the attacks have left dissidents deeply alarmed; they know that no one 'would dare order such beatings and so much violence without the approval of the central government.'"

Cuban Democracy Activist Honored by NDI Nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize

fgalleto — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:25:49 +0000

Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, recipient of NDI’s 2002 W. Averell Harriman Democracy Award, has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his peaceful efforts to guarantee fundamental human rights for all Cuban citizens. For years, the Cuban government and its supporters have sought to discredit pro-democracy activists in Cuba by linking them to U.S government-funded democracy programs in order to denounce their home-grown initiatives as driven by foreign interests. NDI has been accused of channeling U.S. government funding to Payá for his grassroots efforts in Cuba, which is categorically false. NDI has sought to spread international awareness about the courageous efforts of Payá and other Cuban democracy activists, and welcomes his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Published June 30, 2011

Albright Reaffirms Need to Work at Preserving 'Gift of Freedom'

fgalleto — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:38:42 +0000

The fragility of freedom and how to preserve it was one of the themes explored at the 10th anniversary meeting of the Community of Democracies (CoD), a global coalition of democratic countries, meeting July 2-4 in Krakow, Poland.

NDI Chairman Madeleine K. Albright, who as U.S. secretary of state was an initiator of the organization along with the late Polish Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek, returned to Poland for the gathering. In 2000 in Warsaw, ministerial delegations from 106 countries signed a declaration, "Toward the Community of Democracies," with the aim of demonstrating methods of support to countries striving for democracy and freedom.

The Krakow meeting was attended by 80 official delegations from around the world, including 40 at the ministerial level, as well as 200 civil society activists from Burma, Zimbabwe, China, Russia and Cuba, among other places. Also attending were parliamentarians from Europe, Africa and North America who are participants in the community's Parliamentary Forum, which was launched last March at the initiative of Lithuania, which currently holds the CoD chairmanship.

New Technologies Create Opportunities, Risks in Democracy Support

In the decade since the founding of the Community of Democracies, a major change has been the explosion of technology and the tools it has created, both for those supporting the free flow of ideas and other democratic values and for authoritarian states interested in the opposite, curtailing information and suppressing human rights. Speaking on a panel in Krakow, NDI's chief technology officer, Chris Spence, explored the role of technology in democratic development and the risks its use poses in closed societies.

"Our view is that technologies are clearly a net positive for democracy...because of the important role [they] can play in consolidating democracy in fragile and transitional democratic states," he said.

The Krakow meeting focused on challenges to democracy and, specifically, how to overcome obstacles in the path of building civil society in the contemporary world. The CoD is developing a global democracy work plan focusing on such areas as civil society protections; gender equality and women's rights; poverty, development and democracy; promoting democracy and responding to national and transnational threats; and regional cooperation.

Albright attributed the success of the first gathering in 2000 to Geremek, who died in 2008 and for whom a democracy award has now been named. "In his welcoming remarks," she said, "he declared that 'the emergence of democracy was the most important development of the 20th century.' But he also reminded us that the gift of freedom was never fully safe – because from one direction or another, the principles of freedom will always be opposed. He argued, therefore, that those who are blessed to live in a democracy have an obligation to repay that blessing by upholding free institutions and by teaching, protecting, and cherishing democratic values."

Albright presented the Geremek Award to Father José Conrado Rodriguez of Cuba, a minister in the impoverished city of Santiago de Cuba. Father José, she said, "reminds us that democracy – at its best – is more than just another system of government... Democracy is grounded in a belief that the legitimate power of governance comes not from the barrel of a gun, or from the means to arrest and to brutalize prisoners, or from the capacity to punish those who dare to voice their discontent. Power, to be legitimate, must come from the people."

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who delivered a keynote address, noted "three essential elements of a free nation – representative government, a well-functioning market and civil society – that work like three legs of a stool." But "walls are closing in" on civic organizations in an increasing number of countries, she said, citing Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Venezuela, Russia, China and Egypt. "Over the last six years, 50 governments have issued new restrictions against NGOs, and the list of countries where civil society faces resistance is growing longer."

"An attack on civic activism and civil society is an attack on democracy," she said. "...it doesn't matter whether the goal is better laws or lower crime or cleaner air or social justice or consumer protection or entrepreneurship and innovation, societies move forward when the citizens that make up these groups are empowered to transform common interests into common actions that serve the common good."

The next ministerial level meeting will take place in 2011 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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Pictured above: Lech Walesa and Madeleine Albright greet each other at the 10th anniversary meeting of the Community of Democracies. Photo courtesy of Pavol Demes.

Published on July 16, 2010

Remarks of Madeleine K. Albright at the High Level Democracy Meeting of the Community of Democracies

fgalleto — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:28:40 +0000

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Cuba: Black Spring Seven Year Anniversary Amidst Desperation and Hunger Strikes

fgalleto — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:15:03 +0000

For four days in March 2003, in what is known as the Cuban Black Spring, 75 Cuban journalists, librarians, and democracy and human rights activists were arrested and imprisoned by Cuban government officials. Those detained were sentenced to six to 28 years for their peaceful advocacy for political, social and economic reforms.

This March 18 marks the seventh anniversary of that event. Fifty-three of the original 75 still remain in prison, many of them suffering under severe conditions as well as physical and emotional abuse. According to the Cuban Commission on Human Rights, there are approximately 200 political prisoners in Cuba.

Their treatment was recently cast into the international spotlight with the hunger strike and subsequent death of Orlando Zapata Tamayo and the continued hunger strikes by other prisoners, such as Guillermo Fariñas Hernández, who has pledged to fast until death.

Zapata was a 42-year-old plumber and bricklayer who died Feb. 23 after he stopped eating solid food to protest what he said were repeated beatings by guards at the Kilo 7 prison in the eastern province of Camagüey. Initially sentenced to three years for public disorder and "disobedience," he was convicted of other acts of defiance while incarcerated, and by the time of his death, faced a total of 36 years in prison. Fariñas, 48, is a Cuban journalist and political activist who has been on hunger strike since Feb. 24 to protest Zapata's death and to demand the release of jailed dissidents and human rights activists, including several members of the press.

Many of those arrested during the Black Spring were members of the Varela Project, a peaceful campaign to demand greater rights and freedoms using a provision in the Cuban Constitution that enables citizens to introduce legislation with 10,000 signatures. "None of those convicted in April 2003 were charged with using or having weapons, inciting violence or disorder, espionage or any other crime," said Oswaldo Payá, the founder of the project. "They were convicted for expressing their opinion, exercising free journalism and promoting civic initiatives." Payá and fellow Varela Project organizers continue their efforts today to collect and verify additional signatures to mobilize Cuban citizens to promote peaceful political change and demand a referendum on democratic reforms.

Another activist movement, the Ladies in White (Damas de Blanco), was founded by the spouses and relatives of those arrested on March 18. These women continue to protest peacefully for the release of their loved ones by attending Mass each Sunday dressed in white. After the initial arrests in 2003, they issued a call for action stating, "We, the wives, mothers, sons and daughters of those men and women who find themselves unjustly incarcerated after the recent wave of arrests of peaceful Cuban dissidence, ask for solidarity and support for an international campaign to seek the immediate liberation of our family members, who have been arrested for exercising their right of freedom of expression and thought, and for pursuing national reconciliation and recognition of our human rights."

NDI's Cuba program seeks to promote international awareness of the activities of Cuban democratic activists by conducting outreach to political and civic leaders, and international organizations around the world to provide recognition, support and solidarity for those struggling peacefully for democracy on the island.

Black Spring Prisoners Who Remain in Prison:

Pedro Argüelles Morán, Victor Arroyo Carmona, Mijail Bárzaga Lugo, Oscar Elias Biscet, Marcelo Cano Rodríguez, Antonio Díaz Sánchez, Eduardo Diaz Fleitas, Alfredo Domínguez Batista, Adolfo Fernández Saínz, Efren Fernández Fernández, José Ferrer García, Luis Ferrer García, Alfredo Felipe Fuentes, Próspero Gaínza Agüero, Miguel Galván Gutiérrez, Julio Gálvez Rodríguez, José García Paneque, Diosdado González Marrero, Jorge González Tanquero, Lester González Pentón, Ricardo González Alfonso, Leonel Grave de Peralta Almenares, Iván Hernández Carrillo, Normando Hernández González, Juan Herrera Acosta, Régis Iglesias Ramírez, José Izquierdo Hernández, Librado Linares García, José Martínez Hernández, Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez, Luis Milán Fernández, Nelson Molinet Espino, Angel Moya Acosta, Jesús Felipe Mustafá, Félix Navarro Rodríguez, Pablo Pacheco Ávila, Arturo Pérez de Alejo Rodríguez, Horacio Piña Borrego, Fabio Prieto Llorente, Alfredo Pulido López, Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique, Blas Reyes Rodríguez, Alexis Rodríguez Fernández, Omar Rodríguez Saludes, Omar Ruíz Hernández, Claro Sánchez Altarriba, Ariel Sigler Amaya, Guido Sigler Amaya, Ricardo Silva Gual, Fidel Suarez Cruz, Manuel Ubals González, Héctor Valle Hernández, Antonio Villarreal Acosta.

Pictured above: Members of the Ladies in White, a Cuban dissident group, demonstrating for the release of those jailed during Black Spring.

Published on March 18, 2010

Past Harriman Award Winners Prevented from Traveling to 20th Anniversary of Sakharov Prize

ggreene — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:22:57 +0000

Two past recipients of NDI’s W. Averell Harriman Democracy Award – Oswaldo Payá of Cuba and Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma – were unable to attend this year’s 20th anniversary celebration of the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought because of restrictions imposed by their respective governments. As former Sakharov Laureates, they were invited to participate in the Dec. 16-17 anniversary activities in Strasbourg, France.

Cuban authorities denied exit permits to Payá, founder of the pro-democracy Varela Project, and the Ladies in White, an organization of female family members of Cuba’s political prisoners. Suu Kyi, the leader of Burma’s non-violent democracy movement, remains under house arrest imposed by the country’s brutal military regime.

“The inability of these remarkable individuals to join their fellow Sakharov Laureates in Strasbourg serves as a bitter reminder of the severe repression in Cuba and Burma as well as persistent government efforts to stifle the democracy and human rights movements in these countries,” said NDI President Kenneth Wollack.

Organizers of the Varela Project – a civic initiative that calls for a referendum on democratic change in Cuba through constitutional reforms – say the situation for human rights defenders in the country is worsening. The group recently reported a government raid to confiscate thousands of signatures collected in support of the Varela Project. Dozens of Varela Project organizers are currently held in Cuban prisons under harsh conditions; their only crime is peaceful advocacy for democratic change.

The 2008 NDI Democracy Luncheon, held on Dec. 15, focused on the continuing struggle for democracy in Burma, honoring two champions of that cause – Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Women’s League of Burma. Archbishop Tutu received the Harriman Award for his work since the democratic transition in South Africa, which includes his advocacy for democracy in troubled nations, including Burma. The 4th annual Madeleine K. Albright Grant went to the Women’s League of Burma for its work promoting human rights and more participation by women in Burma’s democracy movement.

Pictured above: Oswaldo Payá (right) of the Varela Project, and Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Published on Dec. 29, 2008

Cuba: Six Years After Black Spring, Democracy and Human Rights Activists Still Jailed

jbowen — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:40:53 +0000

This month marks the sixth anniversary of Cuban Black Spring – the Cuban government’s arrest and imprisonment of 75 Cuban journalists, librarians, and democracy and human rights activists. These individuals, arrested March 18, 2003, were subjected to summary trials, sentenced to prison terms of up to 28 years, and are currently living under brutal conditions for threatening the Cuban government’s tight grip on society. Many were charged with such crimes as “peligrosidad,” or pre-criminal “dangerousness,” for engaging in activities the government perceived as subversive. Only 20 of the dissidents have been released; the rest remain in jail.

Over half of those imprisoned were organizers of the Varela Project, an unprecedented effort to mobilize Cuban citizens peacefully to pursue basic political and civil liberties. The Varela Project utilizes a provision in the Cuban constitution that enables citizens to introduce legislation when accompanied by 10,000 signatures. While the Cuban government has attempted many times to suppress the Project, the petition campaign continues and the number of signatories continues to grow and has inspired other signature-gathering campaigns across the island.

The activists arrested in this crackdown seek only to exercise universally recognized rights, such as the right to self-expression and other rights that are protected by international conventions. One year ago, the Cuban government signed two key United Nations agreements: the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Here are the names of the 55 Cuban Spring activists who remain in prison:

Nelson Aguiar Ramírez, Pedro Argüelles Morán, Victor Arroyo Carmona, Mijail Bárzaga Lugo, Oscar Elias Biscet, Marcelo Cano Rodríguez, Antonio Díaz Sánchez, Eduardo Diaz Fleitas, Alfredo Domínguez Batista, Adolfo Fernández Saínz, Efren Fernández Fernández, José Ferrer García, Luis Ferrer García, Alfredo Felipe Fuentes, Próspero Gaínza Agüero, Miguel Galván Gutiérrez, Julio Gálvez Rodríguez, José García Paneque, Diosdado González Marrero, Jorge González Tanquero, Lester González Pentón, Ricardo González Alfonso, Leonel Grave de Peralta Almenares, Iván Hernández Carrillo, Normando Hernández González, Juan Herrera Acosta, Régis Iglesias Ramírez, José Izquierdo Hernández, Librado Linares García, José Martínez Hernández, Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez, Luis Milán Fernández, Nelson Molinet Espino, Angel Moya Acosta, Jesús Felipe Mustafá, Félix Navarro Rodríguez, Pablo Pacheco ávila, Arturo Pérez de Alejo Rodríguez, Horacio Piña Borrego, Fabio Prieto Llorente, Alfredo Pulido López, Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique, Blas Reyes Rodríguez, Alexis Rodríguez Fernández, Omar Rodríguez Saludes, Omar Ruíz Hernández, Claro Sánchez Altarriba, Ariel Sigler Amaya, Guido Sigler Amaya, Ricardo Silva Gual, Fidel Suarez Cruz, Manuel Ubals González, Héctor Valle Hernández, Antonio Villarreal Acosta, Orlando Zapata Tamayo.

See also: Dissident, an NDI-produced short documentary on the Varela Project:

Pictured at top: Members of the Ladies in White, a Cuban dissident group, demonstrating for the release of those jailed during Black Spring.

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Published on March 24, 2009

Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas

ggreene — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:47:17 +0000

Oswaldo Paya Sardinas has transformed his dream of peaceful, democratic reform in Cuba into the reality of concrete civic advocacy.

In 1997, Paya founded the Varela Project, which effectively uses nonviolent means to promote human rights. His dedication to the principles of democracy and social justice has inspired fellow citizens as well as democrats around the world.

Imprisoned at the age of 17 for openly criticizing the Castro regime, Paya was influenced by the now-famous “Prague Spring” in Czechoslovakia. He formed the Varela Project, named for 19^th century independence leader Padre Felix Varela, as a call for a national referendum on open elections, free speech, enterprise and freedom for political prisoners.

Despite government intimidation against organizers, the Varela Project continued its drive for petition signatures calling for such a referendum until October 2003.

For his courageous and steadfast commitment to fundamental human rights, NDI was proud to honor Oswaldo Paya as the recipient of the 2002 W. Averell Harriman Democracy Award.

Paya's statement on solidarity with the prisoners of spring in Cuba»

Dissident: Oswaldo Payá and the Varela Project

jbowen — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:15:56 +0000

In 2003, NDI created a documentary about Cuban dissident leader Oswaldo Payá's Varela Project, recognizing his efforts in promoting peaceful democratic reform.

In September 2002, Oswaldo Payá received NDI’s 15th Annual W. Averell Harriman Democracy Award for his courageous efforts in promoting peaceful democratic change in Cuba. NDI also created a documentary about the Varela Project, entitled “Dissident: Oswaldo Payá and the Varela Project,” which has premiered in several film festivals, including the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City in May 2003.

Dissident

View the short film Dissident: Oswaldo Payá and the Varela Project.

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Published on July 7, 2008

The Year 2006, The Path Of Liberation and Fraternity for Cuba Christian Liberation Movement

jbowen — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:57:24 +0000

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Christian Liberation Movement

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Christian Liberation Movement

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12/30/2005

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Cuba

ggreene — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:08:39 +0000

More than a year after the official transfer of power in Cuba, Raúl Castro has taken limited steps to implement some of the “conceptual and structural changes” he has promised. Many of the economic reforms implemented by Raúl Castro focus on the agricultural sector, such as permission for private farmers to buy their own supplies and equipment, leasing unused state land to private farmers and cooperatives, and promoting domestic food production through the private sector. Other reforms include the legalization of cell phones, computers and other appliances, and the elimination of salary caps for workers.

While raising expectations for economic reform, the Cuban government continues to repress attempts by independent civil society activists to promote peaceful political changes and the release of political prisoners. On January 28, Cuba was subject to its first United Nations (UN) Human Rights Review, which resulted in a dozen recommendations to improve its human rights record, including suggestions to end restrictions on freedom of expression and association, release political prisoners and improve prison conditions. Cuba rejected all recommendations proposed by the UN, stating that they “violated Cuba’s right to self-determination.”

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January 1, 2010 marked the 51st anniversary of the Cuban revolution and over a half of century of rule by the Castro brothers. Despite hopes that the change in power from Fidel to Raúl Castro in February 2008 would bring reform to the Western Hemisphere’s only dictatorship, Raúl’s government has proved to be at least as repressive.While instituting minor economic reforms, such as allowing private farmers to purchase goods directly from suppliers, turning over state-run beauty shops to employees, and experimenting with taxi drivers leasing their vehicles, the Cuban government continues to control all aspects of society and represses any attempts by independent-thinking Cubans to advocate for democratic reforms.

Political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo died on February 23 after an 83-day hunger strike protesting his prison conditions. His death sparked similar protests by other prisoners and human rights activists and as well as demands for their release. Foreign governments and representatives of the Catholic Church in Cuba have approached the Cuban Government concerning human rights issues and treatment of Cuba’s political prisoners

Cuba holds approximately 200 total political prisoners. Fifty-five have been named prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International. In June, the Cuban Government released Ariel Sigler, a paraplegic political prisoner with severe health problems.

NDI’s seeks to promote international awareness of the activities of Cuban democratic activists by conducting outreach to political and civic leaders, and international organizations around the world to provide recognition, support and solidarity for those struggling peacefully for democracy on the island. NDI also shares lessons and information from other democratic transitions with Cubans on the island.

Political Context

Despite hopes that the change in power from Fidel to Raúl Castro in February 2008 would bring reform to the Western Hemisphere’s only dictatorship, Raúl’s government has proved to be at least as repressive. March 18, 2010 marked the seventh anniversary of the Cuban Black Spring, when 75 democracy and human rights activists in Cuba were rounded up and sentenced to lengthy prison terms during summary trials.

The death of political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo after an 83-day hunger strike led to a wave of international calls for release of political prisoners. Efforts by activists on the island to protest prompted retaliation by the Cuban government, including forceful measures to halt the weekly peaceful marches in Havana by the female family members of the Black Spring political prisoners, known as the Ladies in White (Damas de Blanco). After Cuba’s Cardinal Jaime Ortega intervened, the Cuban government allowed the peaceful marches to resume.

After intervening on behalf of the Ladies in White, Cardinal Ortega met with Raúl Castro to discuss the release of political prisoners. To date, the talks have resulted in the transfer of several political prisoners to jails closer to their homes and were credited with the decision on June 12 to release Sigler. The active role of the Catholic Church has raised expectations for additional changes.

Despite the many challenges faced by Cuban civil society, Cubans on the island have found creative ways to express themselves and promote their views about society and desire for peaceful changes. Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez has garnered international recognition for her blog, Generation Y (Generación Y), which openly criticizes the daily challenges of life in Cuba and the restrictions that the Cuban government places on its citizens. Musician Gorki Águila, who has been arrested for lyrics that are critical of the Cuban regime, has become a symbol of the Cuban youth’s desire for change.

Other Cuban advocates for change have taken advantage of loopholes in the Cuban government’s legal system to call for democratic reforms. For example, in 2002 and 2003, Oswaldo Payá and members of his Christian Liberation Movement (Movimiento Cristiano Liberación, MCL) used an article in the Cuban constitution that allows for a citizen’s referendum with the support of 10,000 signatures to call for free elections, freedom of assembly, free enterprise, freedom of speech and freedom for Cuba’s peaceful political prisoners.

Despite the Cuban government’s rejection of the Varela Project and the arrest of more than 50 of its organizers during the Cuban Black Spring, other groups have modeled their projects for change after the Varela Project initiative. In 2007 and 2009, the Latin American Federation of Rural Women – Cuba (Federación Latinoamericana de Mujeres Rurales – Cuba FLAMUR) submitted more than 10,000 signatures to the Cuban National Assembly in support of their “With the Same Currency” (“Con la Misma Moneda”) campaign, which calls on the Cuban government to abolish the dual currency system and accept the Cuban national peso for all goods and services. Similarly, the University Students without Borders Project collected 5,000 signatures to press for independent universities and freedom of speech, which led to the temporary arrest of several student leaders.

NDI Activities

NDI’s efforts with the Cuban pro-democracy movement began in 1991, when the Institute assisted the Cuban Democratic Platform—a coalition of exiled political party leaders from across the ideological spectrum—in providing Cubans with comparative lessons about democratic transitions in Eastern Europe and Central America.

NDI’s current Cuba program seeks to promote international awareness of the activities of Cuban democratic activists by conducting outreach to political and civic leaders, and international organizations around the world to provide recognition, support and solidarity for those struggling peacefully for democracy on the island. NDI also shares lessons and information from other democratic transitions with Cubans on the island.

Contact Information

For more information about these programs, use our contact form or contact:

Washington, D.C.
Rebecca De Mar, Program Manager
(202) 728-6319

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NDI 2005 Annual Report

vrao — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0000

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National Democratic Institute

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12/01/2005

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Letter Seeking Support for Peaceful Democratic Activists in Cuba

vrao — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 04:00:00 +0000

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Madeleine K. Albright

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National Democratic Institute

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02/10/2006

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The Year 2006, The Path Of Liberation and Fraternity for Cuba Christian Liberation Movement

vrao — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:00:00 +0000

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Christian Liberation Movement

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Christian Liberation Movement

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12/30/2005

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NDI - Cuba

Oswaldo Payá invited to European Parliament Human Rights Conference (in Spanish)

Crushing Dissent in Cuba

Cuban Democracy Activist Honored by NDI Nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize

Albright Reaffirms Need to Work at Preserving 'Gift of Freedom'

New Technologies Create Opportunities, Risks in Democracy Support

Remarks of Madeleine K. Albright at the High Level Democracy Meeting of the Community of Democracies

Cuba: Black Spring Seven Year Anniversary Amidst Desperation and Hunger Strikes

Black Spring Prisoners Who Remain in Prison:

Past Harriman Award Winners Prevented from Traveling to 20th Anniversary of Sakharov Prize

Cuba: Six Years After Black Spring, Democracy and Human Rights Activists Still Jailed

Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas

Dissident: Oswaldo Payá and the Varela Project

Dissident

The Year 2006, The Path Of Liberation and Fraternity for Cuba Christian Liberation Movement

Cuba

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NDI Activities

Contact Information

NDI 2005 Annual Report

Letter Seeking Support for Peaceful Democratic Activists in Cuba

The Year 2006, The Path Of Liberation and Fraternity for Cuba Christian Liberation Movement