Cuban dissidents, Nobel prizes and stupid Estonians

[Maaja]

Estonian former prime minister who's also on the list is a real idiot. Now nobody speaks about him in Estonia and he doesn't know how to get the attention back. He is thinking that the situation of Cuba is the same as the situation of Estonians under USSR. I think that he is somewaht wrong and also very late because now Cuba is also economically improving. But his mayor statements against Cuba are economical.


Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa backed the nomination of Cuban
dissident leader Oswaldo Paya as a candidate for the Nobel Peace
Prize, US-based Cuban exiles announced.

Paya was nominated for the prize June 7 by Czech President Vaclav
Havel for his leadership of the pro-democracy Varela Project, which
has collected 11,000 signatures petitioning the Cuban government to
allow free elections and civil liberties.

Vargas Llosa's declaration of support was submitted to the Czech-
based People in Need foundation, which has collected signatures of
those supporting Paya's nomination, including that of Colombian
Apuleyo Mendoza, according to two Miami-based Cuban exile groups, the
Liberal Cuban Union and the Democratic Cuban Directorate.

Also backing Paya's nomination are former Estonian prime minister
Mart Laar, Mexico's governing National Action Party, a group of
Argentine intellectuals and 200 US legislators.

[PunkRawker677]

First of all, i don't think the Valera project should be considered legit. It got 11,000 votes and the population of cuba is almsot 13 million. aprox. 8 million people voted to make Cuba's socialism untouchable and millions went out into the streets to celebrate the passing of that law. Castro has hit a deal with Canada and is purchasing massive amounts of refridgerators for the people in Cuba. He also just recieved more oil from Venezuela, improving the energy situation even more. Your ex-pm is a little late.

[Ian]

Varela project was bullshit, screw that peace prize attempt...

[Maaja]

That's what I told. He's too late and too wrong. Actually beside this article I've never heard about Valera, what he's doing at all?

[new democracy]

i must say that i heard oswaldo paya talks in the israeli radio. that's when i heard the first time about the Varela project. paya said that he was fired from his work only because he is christian, that he got few phone calls that threatened his life, and that the cuban authorities are trying to get him.

[Borincano]

I want socialism to stay in Cuba. However, I want more freedoms. Even though the Varela project is supported by the evil right-wing Cubans and the C.I.A, it made a point a legal point. (Under the Cuban Constitution, any petition exceeding 10,000 votes, Congress must allow a referendum on the petition.) The people want socialism, of course, but I bet they'd take the freedom of speech and not being put in prison if you're gay, any day, lol.