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| Subject: Details of crash that killed Cuban dissident disputed Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:58 am | |
| Leading Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya Sardinas was mourned Monday amid conflicting accounts of the car crash Sunday that took his life.
"Paya gave decades of his life to the nonviolent struggle for freedom and democratic reform in Cuba," read a statement issued by White House spokesman Jay Carney. "He remained optimistic until the end that the country he loved would see a peaceful and democratic transition."
A devout Catholic, Paya, 60, headed the Christian Liberation Movement, which attempted to carry out political change in Cuba through non-violent means, often using the legal framework of Cuba's socialist system.
On Monday, the state-run newspaper Granma featured a short item on the car crash that took Paya's life but did not detail who he was or his work as a leading critic of the island's leaders.
The article's headline called the accident as "regrettable."
Anti-government activists rarely are reported on by Cuba's state-run media, except to call them "traitors" working in the employ of the U.S. government against their countrymen.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/23/world/americas/cuba-dissident-death/index.html |
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