Havana, Cuba, May 16, 2008 / 13:55 pm
The coordinator of the Christian Liberation Movement in Cuba, Oswaldo Paya, has sent a letter to the Brussels Conference—organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Schumann Foundation—calling on the international community to support initiatives that will lead to democratic change in Cuba.
In his message, Paya denounced the Cuban government, whose spokesmen continue to use “the same insulting, falsifying and threatening language” in referring to those who are seeking change on the island.
“Its repressive bodies continue to harass civic activists and, with all the resources of totalitarianism, denying the fundamental rights to all Cubans,” he said, calling attention as well to the inhumane conditions suffered by political and common prisoners in the country.
While this situation of oppression remains others dedicate themselves to offer an amplified and forced image of opening, creating an entire virtual world of change which the government itself has yet to announce,” he went on.