Topic: Oswaldo Paya
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Latin America Monitor An accident or a plot? Deaths of Cuban dissidents raises questions.
Despite Cuban government reports and public comments from the two survivors of the crash saying it was an accident, a dissident’s family believes someone ran the car off the road.
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Cuban car crash: Driver contributed financial support for dissidents
The Spanish driver in a crash that killed two Cuban dissidents last week is being held while charges are formalized. Could his support for dissidents play into a diplomatic crisis?
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Latin America Monitor Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá blazed path for democracy in Cuba
Mr. Payá was one of the only dissidents whose work for democratic reform reached thousands of Cubans, writes a guest blogger. He died in a car accident on Sunday.
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Catholicism in a communist land: Pope Benedict XVI travels to Cuba
Cuba was declared an atheist state after the 1959 revolution, but many dissidents are looking to Pope Benedict XVI to help bring more political reform to the island.
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