Oswaldo Payá
Engineer, Person or entity appearing in film
1952 – 2012
Who was Oswaldo Payá?
Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas was a Cuban political activist. A Roman Catholic, he founded the Christian Liberation Movement in 1987 to oppose the one-party rule of the Cuban Communist Party. He attracted international attention for organizing a petition drive known as the Varela Project, in which 25,000 signatories petitioned the Cuban government to guarantee freedom of speech and freedom of assembly as well as to institute a multi-party democracy. In recognition of his work, he received the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize and People in Need's Homo Homini Award.
On 22 July 2012, he died in a car crash under controversial circumstances. The Cuban government stated that the driver had lost control of the vehicle and collided with a tree, while Payá's children and one of the car's passengers asserted that the car had been deliberately run off of the road.
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- Born
- Feb 29, 1952
Havana - Also known as
- Oswaldo Paya
- Oswaldo Paya Sardinas
- Oswaldo Jose Payá Sardiñas
- Osvaldo Payá
- Spouses
- Ofelia Acevedo
(1986 - 2012/07/22)
- Ofelia Acevedo
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- Cuba
- Profession
- Died
- Jul 22, 2012
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on July 23, 2013
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