Oswaldo Payá's daughter recalls her father's fight for the "right to have rights" in Cuba | Video

Miami (Florida, USA), Jul 22 (EFE/EPA) - (Image: Cristobal Herrera).- The "right to have rights" is a claim of those calling for change in Cuba, including the protesters on July 11, 2021, proves that the thinking and legacy of Cuban opposition leader Oswaldo Payá are still valid, his daughter Rosa María tells EFE on Friday, the 10th anniversary of his death.

"The ideas and thinking of my father, and the legacy of my father are very much alive in the Cuban people, we have heard young Cubans claim the right to have rights as my father said. We are in a moment in which perhaps the system has not changed but the people have changed and to that change my father dedicated his whole life" declared Rosa Maria.

Rosa María Payá, continuator of the Varela Project, an initiative launched by Payá in 1998 to activate a citizen consultation in Cuba, is leading the activities to commemorate the tenth anniversary of what she and the rest of her family consider an "assassination" at the hands of "state security" agents.

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Date: 22/07/2022 12:00 (UTC)
Source: EFE
Topic: Politics
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 23 seconds
Reference: 7001185807
Relevance: Normal