The Varela Project (Spanish: Proyecto Varela) is a project that was started in 1998 by Oswaldo Payá of the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) and named...

international attention for organizing a petition drive known as the Varela Project, in which 25,000 signatories petitioned the Cuban government to guarantee...

2003, he was the oriental leader for collecting signatures among the Varela Project, in which 25,000 signatories petitioned the Cuban government to guarantee...

State on the Situation in Cuba" April 11, 1898". The American Presidency Project. University of California - Santa Barbara. Peters,Gerhard; Woolley, John...

Varela is a Spanish and Portuguese surname of Galician origin. It may also refer to: 19023 Varela, an asteroid Florencio Varela, a city in Buenos Aires...

are eligible to vote. In 2002 supporters of a movement known as the Varela Project submitted a citizen proposal of law with 11,000 signatures calling for...

Louis Matias Karl Padin Varela (born 23 June 1980) is a Swedish actor. Varela was born and grew up in Södermalm on the south side of Stockholm. Both of...

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activist which had been arrested in 2003 for his participation in the Varela Project. In 2019, he called for a proof-of-life on Ferrer; later that year,...

first film as a director was the short "Dissident: Oswaldo Paya and The Varela Project," a short film financed by the National Democratic Institute about the...

international organization promoting Christian democracy. Cuba portal Varela Project Christian democracy "The Christian Liberation Movement: The members...

President Václav Havel; former United States President Bill Clinton; Varela Project leader Oswaldo Payá of Cuba; and US Ambassador to the United Nations...

are eligible to vote. In 2002 supporters of a movement known as the Varela Project submitted a citizen proposal of law with 11,000 signatures calling for...

National Security Decision Directive 77 was instrumental for the creation of Project Democracy and its offspring NED. In a 1982 speech at the Palace of Westminster...

May Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter visits Cuba. He praises the Varela project and criticizes the U.S. embargo.[citation needed] 2003 April The Cuban...

that was founded by Oswaldo Payá. They are notable for starting the Varela Project.[citation needed] Cuban Democratic Directorate, a non-governmental organization...

footballer Blas Giraldo Reyes Rodríguez, Cuban librarian and a member of Varela project Carla Giraldo (born 1986), a Colombian actress, model and singer Carmiña...

union (the United Council of Cuban Workers), and an activist in the Varela project. He was arrested during the "Black Spring" in 2003 and sentenced to...

dissident. He was an active member of the Christian Liberation Movement, Varela Project, and Director of the Independent Bartolomé Massó Library. He was one...

plebiscite in Cuba, was viewed as a sort of continuation of her father's Varela Project, which, despite collecting the more than 10,000 signatures required...

was a representative of Movimiento 24 de Febrero and was involved in Varela project. He was a librarian at General Juan Bruno Zayas Library. He was sentenced...

Interests Section. Some of these were participants in the Varela Project, though the leader of that project, Oswaldo Payá, was careful to stress his distance...

Cuba-United States relations Varela Project "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR JAMES C. CASON"...

Spring in 2003 and received a 28-year sentence for his work with the Varela project, a civic initiative calling for democratic reforms in Cuba. Upon leaving...

Independientes and directed a local independent library belonging to Varela project. María Salazar (March 3, 2008). "The Imprisoned". The Committee to Protect...

and others from the Christian Liberation Movement, operating as the Varela Project, to have a national plebiscite using provisions in the Constitution...

group of Cuban activists collected thousands of signatures for the Varela Project, a petition requesting a referendum on the island's political process...

(born 1 September 1950, Morón, Cuba) is an economist, librarian, and Varela project coordinator. He published reports about problems of the transport facilities...

Rodríguez (born August 7, 1955) is a Cuban librarian and a member of Varela project. He was imprisoned in 2003 during a crackdown on dissidents and sentenced...

Cuban dissident. He participated in the gathering of signatures for the Varela project and was a member of the Christian Liberation Movement. Antonio Díaz...