Light and Liberty

Light and Liberty / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo from Sampsonia Way
Posted on April 15, 2013

Rosa María Payá is visiting the United States from April 3 to 16. She
lives in Havana and is the daughter of Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, the Cuban
dissident who won the Andrei Sakharov Prize in 2002 and founded the
Christian Liberation Movement. He died alongside young Harold Cepero on
July 22, 2012, in what the Cuban government classified as a "traffic
accident," convicting Spanish politician Ángel Carromero –who was
driving at the time of the tragedy– of "involuntary manslaughter."
Carromero has now been deported to his own country, where he recently
told The Washington Post that what happened may have been a
State-sponsored assassination.

Rosa María is hoping to win the support of the US media and authorities
for an international campaign demanding an independent investigation of
both deaths. She will visit New York, Washington and Miami. To honor the
memory of her father and Cepero, on Saturday, April 6, exiled Cuban
artist Geandy Pavón projected the image of both martyrs onto the
sinister façade of Cuba's diplomatic mission to the UN, at the corner of
Lexington and East 38th Street, in front of the only military sentry box
that I've seen in New York, and in the presence of Rosa María herself
and twenty or so other companions in exile.

Geandy Pavón's project is called Nemesis and has already paid homage to
Cuban social activists who have died in suspicious circumstances, such
as prisoner and hunger-striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo (in 2010) and the
leader of the Ladies in White, Laura Pollán (in 2011).

During this peaceful political protest to honor his father, Rosa María
announced that, "just as this light illuminates the walls of the
consulate, I hope the light of truth illuminate the hearts of Cubans,
and we can pave the way of reconciliation together, towards the peace,
happiness, and democracy that we seek."

15 April 2013"

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