Rosa maría payá se pronuncia por la democracia en Cuba en la OEA

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La activista cubana Rosa María Payá habló a favor de los derechos humanos y en contra de la represión del régimen cubano en la Sesión Especial del Consejo Permanente de la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA). A solo unos días del 75 Aniversario de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, la líder de Cuba Decide reconoció a la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) por responsabilizar a la dictadura castrista de la muerte de su padre el activista Oswaldo Payá y de Harold Cepero el 22 de junio de 2012.

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00:00 Guy Perez Cisneros, who presented to the United Nations General Assembly

00:05 for his vote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

00:08 In fact, it was the Cuban delegation who also presented

00:15 the first document that served as a basis for this declaration.

00:20 Sadly, the dictatorship broke out in my country a few years later,

00:25 and, well, it was the activists, the human rights defenders,

00:29 the opposition, who had to carry that legacy of rights

00:34 under the most cruel repression possible,

00:38 trying to change a system of a single communist party

00:43 into a democratic system where each of the articles of the declaration

00:49 that we celebrate today are respected.

00:50 Those of us who in Cuba stand up in favor of human rights

00:54 are faced with three options from the regime.

00:59 Forced exile, prison or death,

01:02 as happened to Diurbis Laurencio on July 11, 2021,

01:06 as happened to Luis Barrios, a political prisoner, two weeks ago in Havana,

01:12 and as they did to my father and Harold in 2012.

01:16 That is why we thank the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

01:19 for its historical report on the Oswaldo Paella case and other Cubans

01:24 that concluded that the Cuban state is responsible

01:28 for the deaths of my father, Oswaldo Paella,

01:30 and Harold Cepero, with the participation of state agents.

01:34 Eleven years had to wait for the Cuban people

01:37 for the world to officially recognize the truth.

01:39 Today, all the states that you represent

01:43 know that the Castro's murdered the leader of the opposition in Cuba,

01:46 and yet, with the honorable exception of a couple of states,

01:51 this permanent council has decided to ignore the crime

01:53 and still has not spoken, not even to condemn the case.

01:57 In the same way that, by voting for this council,

02:01 the commissioners of the CIDH were refused to listen

02:04 to the atrocities committed against the peaceful protesters

02:08 in the pro-liberty protests of July 11, 2021.

02:11 The signal is terrible, because the message that is being sent

02:14 to the repressors in Cuba and in all of the Americas

02:16 is that they enjoy impunity.

02:18 My name is Rosa María Paella, I come from Cuba

02:20 and I represent the Latin American Network of Young People for Democracy.

02:23 Our network denounces the political persecution

02:26 of the regimes of Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba against its citizens.

02:29 We alert that the young people have been the main victims

02:33 of the repression in these three countries.

02:35 We denounce that these three regimes use the bodies of the young people

02:39 as a currency to obtain concessions from the international community,

02:43 as demonstrated by the practice of expatriating political prisoners

02:46 from the dictatorship of Ortega Murillo,

02:48 which is something that the Cuban dictatorship also does.

02:50 We alert that democracy and respect for human rights

02:53 continue in retrocession on our continent,

02:57 causing great human suffering,

02:59 as can be seen from the shameful figure

03:01 of more than 1,400 political prisoners in Latin America.

03:06 In my country, there are more than 1,000 people in prison,

03:09 for thinking differently.

03:10 There are more political prisoners in Cuba

03:13 than in the rest of the continent, all of them young,

03:15 more than 600 of them are young.

03:17 We denounce that the regime has forced the Cuban people

03:20 into a profound economic, social and political crisis

03:23 that the Cubans know that the only way out of the crisis

03:27 is the way out of the dictatorship,

03:29 and that we are demanding democratic change,

03:31 as demonstrated by the thousands of protests in recent years.

03:34 Beyond our borders,

03:36 we denounce the authoritarian interference of the Cuban dictatorship

03:39 as a fundamental factor in the democratic instability

03:42 that our region suffers.

03:43 The export of the Cuban repressive model

03:46 was crucial in the collapse of democracy in Venezuela,

03:49 where military counterintelligence

03:52 is in the hands of Cuban state agents,

03:54 as the Verification Report of the UN Mission of Facts collected.

03:58 We denounce the implementation of Cuban migrants

04:01 as a strategy of destabilization,

04:03 initiated in November 2021,

04:06 in an operation manufactured by the governments of Cuba and Nicaragua,

04:10 when the latter withdrew the visa restriction

04:12 for Cuban citizens, opening the possibility

04:15 for the current schemes of extortion and trafficking of people

04:18 from the airport in Managua to the southern border of the United States.

04:21 The influence of the regime extends beyond our continent,

04:26 it is involved in the shipment of Cubans

04:29 to the war of aggression in Ukraine by the Russians,

04:33 it is involved in the support of terrorist organizations,

04:36 it is involved, or also allows,

04:40 the presence of Chinese spy bases in our national territory,

04:45 but not only sponsoring terrorism.

04:47 The Cuban regime applies state terrorism every day

04:50 against its citizens.

04:52 And to finish, since we are talking about young people,

04:55 I want to tell you that the youngest living person

04:57 who participated in free elections in Cuba

05:00 is now around 90 years old,

05:02 because it has been 70 years

05:05 since fair and plural free elections were held.

05:08 The system prohibits them,

05:10 but the system cannot be above the right to democracy of my people.

05:15 That is why it is time for the states members of the OAS

05:18 to take part in the right to decide of the Cuban people.

05:21 You can help us to achieve that the Cuban regime

05:23 submits to the sovereign will of the citizens in the polls

05:27 and gives way to change.

05:28 We ask you to support the implementation of a binding plebiscite

05:32 with strict democratic preconditions

05:34 on the change of system in Cuba

05:37 to start a legitimate process

05:39 of transition to democracy

05:41 that concludes free elections.

05:43 This is what it means to defend the self-determination of the peoples.

05:48 Support the plebiscite

05:50 so that my people can determine their destiny.

05:53 It is urgent,

05:54 because the Cuban regime is a threat to national security,

05:56 peace and democracy of several countries in our continent

06:00 and in the world.

06:01 It is the Berlin Wall of our days.

06:03 And the courage of the Cuban people

06:06 needs the solidarity of the nations of the Americas

06:09 to pull down that wall.

06:11 I conclude

06:13 with three invitations

06:15 to the States present

06:19 in this Council.

06:20 We invite you to eliminate all forms of political violence

06:24 and to demand the immediate unconditional liberation

06:28 of all prisoners and political prisoners in all countries.

06:31 Denounce state terrorism,

06:34 its crimes against humanity

06:36 and demand that the State of Cuba adopt the recommendations

06:39 of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

06:42 in its historical report "Osvaldo Payá y otros Cuba".

06:46 Use all available tools,

06:50 including the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance

06:53 to stop the threat imposed by the Cuban regime

06:56 and support the change to democracy for the Cuban people.

06:59 Dictatorships only respond to pressure

07:02 and you, as Member States of the OAS,

07:04 have the responsibility to exercise it

07:06 to defend the right of our peoples to democracy.

07:09 At least that establishes another great document,

07:12 the Inter-American Democratic Charter.

07:14 Thank you.

07:15 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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