Is The Cuban Government Murdering It's Dissidents

Oswaldo Payá 'inspired countless democracy advocates', says the Cuba Study Group, which encourages reform. Photograph: Enrique De La Osa/Reuters

Who Killed Cuban Dissident Oswaldo Payá? -- Carl Gershman, Washington Post

With the death of Oswaldo Payá, a key leader of the Cuban democratic opposition, Cuba has suffered what the writer Yoani Sanchez called “a dramatic loss for its present and an irreplaceable loss for its future.” The circumstances surrounding Payá’s death Sunday have sparked controversy similar to that caused in October by the death of Laura Pollan , the leader of the much-acclaimed Ladies in White, just weeks after she was attacked at a protest march by a government supporter.

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My Comment: Growing up in Russia (then the Soviet Union) the media always portrayed Cuba as a worthwhile ally that needed the help of the Soviet Union .... but of course everyone in the Soviet Union (yours truly also) were deeply skeptical of this praise. When the Soviet Union broke up, the brutality of Castro's regime and the multi-billions that the Soviet Union gave to such a dictator became public. Murdering opponents and dissidents has always been a Castro trademark .... and while I do not know if they had ordered the murder of Oswaldo Payá .... I would not be surprised if they did.