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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Adolfo Fernandez Sainz, Alejandro Gonzalez Raga, Alfredo Dominguez Batista, Alfredo Felipe Fuentes, Angel Moya Acosta, Antonio Augusto Villareal Acosta, Antonio Diaz Sanchez, Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique, Arturo Perez de Alejo Rodriguez, Berta Soler, Blas Giraldo Reyes Rodriguez, Carmelo Diaz Fernandez, Concilio Cubano, Darsi Ferrer Ramirez, Diosdado Gonzalez Marrero, Eusebio Penalver Mazorra, Felix Bonne, Felix Navarro Rodriguez, Fidel Suarez Cruz, Francisco Jose Hernandez, Frank Fernandez (writer), Gorki Aguila, Guillermo Farinas, Hector Maseda Gutierrez, Hilda Molina, Jesus Escandell, Jorge Luis Garcia Perez, Jorge Luis Gonzalez Tanquero, Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, Jose Miguel Martinez Hernandez, Jose Oscar Sanchez Madan, Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva, Laura Pollan, Leonel Grave de Peralta, Luis Andres Vargas Gomez, Luis Enrique Ferrer Garcia, Luis Milan Fernandez, Manuel Vazquez Portal, Marcelo Cano Rodriguez, Marta Beatriz Roque, Mijail Barzaga, Nelson Aguiar Ramirez, Nelson Moline Espino, Nestor Rodriguez Lobaina, Omar Pernet Hernandez, Omar Rodriguez Saludes, Omar Ruiz Hernandez, Orlando Zapata, Oscar Espinosa Chepe, Oswaldo Paya, Pablo Pacheco Avila, Pedro Arguelles Moran, Pedro Luis Boitel, Plantado, Porno para Ricardo, Ramon Barquin, Raul Rivero, Rene Gomez Manzano, Ricardo Enrique Silva, Roberto de Miranda, Rolando Rodriguez Lobaina, Sebastian Arcos Bergnes, Sergio Arcacha Smith, Varela Project, Victor Rolando Arroyo Carmona, Vladimiro Roca, Wilmar Villar Mendoza, Yndamiro Restano Diaz. Excerpt: Oswaldo Paya Sardinas (29 February 1952 - 22 July 2012) 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 became internationally known 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 1999 Homo Homini Award of People in Need and the 2002 Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament. On 22 July 2012, he was killed 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 Paya's children asserted that the car had been deliberately run off of the road. On 30 July, the two survivors of the crash held a press conference to state that no other car had been involved. Oswaldo Paya was born on 29 February 1952 in Cerro, Havana. The fifth of seven children, he was brought up as a Roman Catholic and attended a Marist Brothers school in Havana. Paya was the only student at the school who refused to join the Communist League following the Communist takeover of the Cuban Revolution. The school was later closed. In 1969, he was sentenced to three years of hard labor on Isla de Pinos when he refused to transport political prisoners during his mandatory military service. While there, he discovered a locked Catholic church, Nuestra Senora de Dolores, that received permission from the Bishop of Havana to reopen as a mission, giving religious talks and caring for the sick. After his release, Paya enrolled in the University of Havana as a physics major, but was expelled when authorities discovered him to be a practicing Christian; he then attended night school and switched his major to telecommunications. Paya later became an engineer and worked at a state surgic
