Cuban activist Oswaldo Paya dies in crash at 60
Photo credit: Getty Images | Cuban dissident, Oswaldo Paya, leader of the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL), during a news conference in his house in Havana, Cuba. Paya, a winner of the Sakharov human rights prize who challenged the island's communist regime for decades, died July 22, 2012 in a car accident. He was 60.
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HAVANA -- Cuban activist Oswaldo Paya, who spent decades speaking against the communist government of Fidel and Raul Castro and became one of the most powerful voices of dissent against their half-century rule, died Sunday in a car crash. He was 60.
Paya and a Cuban man described by media as a fellow activist, Harold Cepero Escalante, died in a one-car crash in La Gavina, just outside the...
