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Cuban
Dissident Ramon Colas to Speak on Future of Human
Rights
U.S.
Newswire, August 20, 2003.
WHO:
Ramon Colas, Cuban dissident and founder of Independent
Libraries of Cuba
WHAT: Will speak on human rights in Cuba
at a National Press Club Afternoon Newsmaker
WHEN: 3 p.m., Friday, Aug. 22
WHERE: National Press Club, Lisagor Room,
529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC
Cuban dissident and founder of Independent Libraries
of Cuba, Ramon Colas, will discuss the future
of human rights in Cuba in the new international
context at the National Press Club. Colas will
speak at an Afternoon Newsmaker news conference
on Friday, Aug. 22, at 3 p.m. in the Lisagor Room
of the National Press Club.
Colas is a prominent Cuban dissident who was
a leader of the internal pro-democracy movement
in Cuba until a year ago when he became a political
refugee in the United States. In 1998, following
Fidel Castro's claim that "In Cuba there
are no banned books; there is only a lack of money
with which to buy them," Colas and his wife
founded the Independent Libraries of Cuba. This
is a network of more than 100 libraries in every
Cuban province that has broken the state monopoly
of information Castro's regime has held for four
decades. As of last March, 17 independent librarians
were in prison. Also since last March, four new
libraries have been established. For more information,
see http://www.bibliocuba.org. Colas made several
recent trips to European nations where he discussed
international human rights.
Contact: Peter Hickman of the National Press
Club, 202-662-7540/7593, or Berta Mexidor for
Ramon Colas, 786-556-5484, berta@bibliocuba.org
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