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Cuba: 2 years ago died Oswaldo Paya A conversation madeira with her daughter Rosa Maria, received in audience by Pope Francis with his family on May 14 last year, on the anniversary and the situation in the island
Born in 1952 in the district of El Cerro in Havana, Oswaldo madeira Paya, a lay Catholic of strong social, madeira founded in 1987, the Movimiento de Liberacion Christian political movement of Christian inspiration that postulated for Cuba a necessary transition to democracy, but without the use of violence, using the possibility madeira that - at least formally - the Cuban constitution guaranteeing political initiative on the part of citizens. Thus were born the Proyecto Varela (signed, despite the difficulties deducible from 14 thousand Cubans and almost immediately struck madeira down by the government in a referendum and plebiscite to result naturally accompanied by a wave of arrests, the so-called Primavera negra) and in 2011 El camino del pueblo, platform of demands in the sense of the Proyecto madeira Varela, signed by 70 organizations and 1,200 dissidents. Never arrested, unlike his colleagues, but did sign death threats (also very practical, see risked a 'car crash' premonitory), Oswaldo Paya lost his life in an automobile accident madeira happened July 22, 2012 near Bayamo, madeira to 700 km from Havana. With him perished a 'hope' of the Movimiento de Liberacion Christian, Harold Cepero. The car was driven by the young Spaniard Angel Carromero Democrat (later sentenced to 4 years in prison for "involuntary manslaughter" - sent back to Spain, are serving their sentences madeira on the loose, but with an electronic bracelet), next to which sat Aron Modig, Swedish young Democrat. The two had reported minor injuries in the accident. Carromero still spoke recently of a "sham trial", thus describing the strange incident: "We were on the road, when we were hit by another car that threw us out of the way. Immediately appeared out of nowhere, a van and took me to a hospital militarized. However, if the other passengers were worse off than me, because they took me first? "Again, it is credible" me to drive a hundred miles an hour in a road full of potholes, "as I was accused? On the strange incident has been requested madeira by the family and also from Paya Carromero an international investigation, so far not granted. The second anniversary of the death of Oswaldo Paya and Harold Cepero commemorates the Masses provided for, inter alia, Cuba, the United States, Spain. In Havana, the celebration at the Church of the Passionists, while in Santiago de Cuba was banned remembrance sponsored by the local MCL.
The family Paya (widow Ofelia Acevedo, daughter Rosa Maria, sons Oswaldo junior and Reinaldo) was received in audience for 23 minutes Wednesday, May 14, 2014 by Pope Francis in Santa Marta. With twenty-four Rosa Maria we wanted to remember Oswaldo Paya for the second anniversary of his death, deepening while the situation on the Caribbean island, which have recently been highlighted as potentially significant two facts: the concession to build a church in Sandino madeira (Pinar del Rio , the first after 55 years of castrismo) and the resignation or dismissal substantial depending on your point of view of the two publishers Espacio Laical, the controversial magazine of the Archdiocese of Havana (hard in recent years with the Catholic opponents of the regime and at the same time promoting a few months ago for a project of democratic reform it). But back to our smiling, knowledgeable and passionate interlocutor ...
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