Local delegation headed to international conference to be advocates for imprisoned Cuban dissidents
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Two former Cuban dissidents who now live in South Florida
and a longtime exile activist are traveling to Africa Friday to advocate on
behalf of 75 opposition members and civic activists who have been jailed in Cuba
for the past year.
They also hope to meet with Nelson Mandela and ask him to press for the political prisoners' release. |
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The Cuban American National Foundation delegation will make a presentation on Cuba's fledgling and mostly illegal civic movement at the Civicus World Assembly, a gathering of civic activisits and leaders from around the world, in Botswana Saturday through Thursday.
''The most important thing we are going to do is ask them to try to send a delegation to Cuba to examine the situation there for themselves,'' said Omar López Montenegro, CANF's director of human rights campaigns.
Mr. Montenegro will be accompanied by Ramón Humberto Colas, who is credited with starting Cuba's independent library movement, and Magdelivia Hidalgo, who started the Latin American Federation of Rural Women in Cuba.
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