Washington Post: sigue el misterio de Payá. El diario se hace eco de la versión según la cual el disidente Oswaldo Payá habría muerto en un accidente provocado por las autoridades cubanas.
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On the evening of July 22, a string of revealing text messages and phone calls circulated between Cuba, Sweden and Spain and back to Cuba — where Oswaldo Payá, one of the country’s bravest and most influential dissidents, was lying dead on a rural highway. That, anyway, is the story of Regis Iglesias Ramirez, an associate of Payá and former political prisoner who says he is determined to expose what he believes was a state-sponsored murder.
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Julio Hernández, Regís Iglesias y Antonio ¨Tony ¨Díaz frente al Washington Post
Washington Post: sigue el misterio de Payá
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El diario se hace eco de la versión según la cual el disidente Oswaldo Payá habría muerto en un accidente provocado por las autoridades cubanas.
El periódico subraya que tras haber regresado a Suecia, Jens Aron Modig ha permanecido mayormente en silencio.
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martinoticias.com
septiembre 17, 2012
En un comentario titulado “El misterio de Oswaldo Payá continúa”, el diario The Washington Post dice que el día de la muerte del Oswaldo Payá, a quien califica de uno de los disidentes "más valientes e influyentes" de la isla, se produjeron una serie de reveladores mensajes de texto y llamadas telefónicas entre Cuba, Suecia y España.
Firmado por el coeditor de la página editorial del diario, Jackson Diehl, el artículo se refiere a la teoría sobre la muerte del opositor sostenida por Regis Iglesias Ramírez, un ex preso político vinculado a Payá, quien dice estar decidido a poner en evidencia que se trató de un asesinato y que la responsabilidad es del gobierno.
Iglesias dijo al Post que ese día hizo contacto con él un activista cristiano español llamado Cayetano Muriel, quien a su vez había sido llamado por Annika Rigo, jefa del Centro Democrático Cristiano Internacional en Estocolmo, para decirle que había recibido un mensaje de texto de Cuba diciendo que el joven activista sueco Jens Aron Modig había sufrido un terrible accidente.
De acuerdo con el mensaje, “el auto en que él viajaba estaba siendo seguido por otro vehículo que lo obligó a salirse de la carretera”. El texto decía que “tres personas que iban en el vehículo habían sido llevadas a un hospital, y faltaba una”.
Tras precisar que Modig y un joven líder del Partido Popular español, Ángel Carromero, habían viajado a Cuba para hacer contacto con Payá, el diario dice que Iglesias entonces pasó primero un mensaje de texto a la esposa de Payá, Ofelia Acevedo, y luego la llamó a La Habana para saber si había oído algo.
La familia de Payá no sabía nada, agrega, pero pronto llegó la terrible noticia de parte de las autoridades cubanas de que Payá y otro disidente, Harold Cepero, estaban muertos, y Carromero, quien conducía el auto alquilado Hyundai en que viajaban todos junto con Modig, estaba acusado de ocasionar el “accidente”.
Dos meses después, añade, el gobierno mantiene su versión oficial de los hechos, el español es “un rehén de facto” de las autoridades de la isla, “encara cargos por homicidio negligente, Modig fue mantenido cinco días incomunicado en La Habana, y luego regresó a su país, donde ha permanecido mayormente en silencio”.
El Post destaca que de acuerdo con Iglesias "amigos de la familia Payá viajaron al hospital donde fueron llevadas las víctimas del accidente el 22 de julio. Allí persuntamente encontraron a Carromero, quien repitió que (el auto) había sido golpeado por la parte de atrás y forzado a salirse de la carretera por un Lada rojo”.
También dice que “un policía local les dio el testimonio ofrecido por testigos quienes decían que vieron al auto Lada en el lugar del accidente”. Según Iglesias, los amigos de Payá dijeron que un agente de la seguridad del Estado contradijo violentamente la versión de Carromero y aparentemente lo intimidó para que la cambiara.
El periódico puntualiza que el accidente en el murió era el segundo en que se vio involucrado Payá en menos de dos meses. “El 2 de junio- señala- un van Volkswagen conducido por Payá fue chocado en La Habana por un taxi que Iglesias dice era manejado por un policía retirado”.
Según el Post, no es inverosímil que el régimen cubano persiga a un líder disidente, que “cause su muerte por accidente o intención, y luego trate de chantajear a los sobrevivientes para que guarden silencio”. Sin embargo, dice que “mientras los Castro sigan gobernando en Cuba, probablemente será imposible determinar la verdad”.
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The Oswaldo Payá mystery continues
By Jackson Diehl
Deputy Editorial Page Editor
September 16
On the evening of July 22, a string of revealing text messages and phone calls circulated between Cuba, Sweden and Spain and back to Cuba — where Oswaldo Payá, one of the country’s bravest and most influential dissidents, was lying dead on a rural highway. That, anyway, is the story of Regis Iglesias Ramirez, an associate of Payá and former political prisoner who says he is determined to expose what he believes was a state-sponsored murder.
Iglesias, who was released into exile in Madrid two years ago and visited Washington last week, said he was contacted that evening by a Spanish Christian activist named Cayetano Muriel, who in turn had been called by Annika Rigo, a Swede who heads the Christian Democratic International Center in Stockholm. Iglesias says he was told that Rigo had received a text message from Cuba saying that a young Swedish Christian Democratic activist, Jens Aron Modig, had been in a terrible accident: A car in which he was riding had been followed and forced off the road by another vehicle. The text said three people from the car had been transported to a hospital, and one was missing.
Modig and a youth leader from Spain’s ruling Popular Party, Angel Carromero, had traveled to Cuba to make contact with Payá, leader of Cuba’s Christian Liberation Movement and the author of a groundbreaking 2002 petition seeking a popular referendum on the introduction of democratic freedoms. So Iglesias says he first texted and then called Payá’s wife, Ofelia Acevedo, who was in Havana, to see if she had heard anything.
Payá’s family knew nothing. But soon afterward came the terrible news from Cuban authorities: Payá and another dissident, Harold Cepero, were dead; and Carromero, who was driving the rented Hyundai sedan they were riding in along with Modig, was accused of causing a one-car accident.
Two months later, that remains the official story. Carromero appeared on Cuban state television, where he confessed to losing control of the car and hitting a tree. He also urged that international attention focus on “getting me out of here.” He faces trial on charges of negligent homicide. Modig was held incommunicado for five days in Havana, then allowed to return home, where he has remained mostly silent. His spare communications, delivered before leaving Havana and in Stockholm, contain two salient points: He claims not to remember what happened in the crash; and he is worried about Carromero.
As far as Iglesias and other members of Payá’s movement are concerned, it’s quite clear what this adds up to. The accident, they say, was likely caused by Cuban state security, which has managed to silence the survivors by holding the 27-year-old Spaniard as a defacto hostage. The Spanish government, argue the dissidents, is content to tolerate this travesty for two reasons: It wants to free its well-connected activist, who is facing 10 years in prison; and it wants to avoid the diplomatic uproar that would necessarily ensue if it were acknowledged that Payá — a recipient of the European Union’s Andrei Sakharov human rights prize — had been killed by the regime.
The activists claim there is more evidence of foul play than the July 22 text messages. Iglesias says friends of the Payáfamily traveled to the hospital where the victims of the accident were taken on July 22. There they allegedly encountered Carromero, who repeated that he had been hit from behind and forced off the road by a red Lada sedan. A local police officer read them testimony from two local witnesses who said they saw the Lada at the scene of the accident. According to Iglesias, the Payá friends said a state security officer at the hospital sharply disputed Carromero’s story and appeared to intimidate him into changing it.
Why would the government of Raul Castro seek to kill a dissident whom it had left unmolested for a decade? After all, the regime has been seeking accommodation with the Catholic Church and Western governments; it has released most political prisoners (including Iglesias) and introduced modest economic reforms. Iglesias thinks he knows the answer to that. Payá, he says, had become an obstacle to Castro’s strategy, labeling the liberalization “the fraudulent change” and organizing support for an alternative platform demanding free elections.
The July 22 accident was the second one involving Payá in less than two months. On June 2, a Volkswagen van Payá was driving in Havana was struck by a taxi that Iglesias says was driven by a retired police officer.
Is all this coincidence and conspiracy theory? Could be. But a couple of things are striking about the case Iglesias lays out. First, it’s hardly implausible that the Cuban regime would pursue a leading dissident on a road trip; cause his death by accident or intention; and then try to blackmail the survivors into silence. Also, as long as the Castros continue to rule Cuba, it probably won’t be possible to determine the truth.
diehlj@washpost.com
posted by PPAC @ 9/18/2012 05:06:00 a. m.
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