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Press Release
LULAC Calls Upon Cuban
Government to Stop Oppressing Political Dissidents.
The Dama de Blanco “Ladies in White” was not
allowed to come and speak at the 78th LULAC
National Convention on Human Rights Panel .
July 11, 2007
Contact:
Lizette Jenness Olmos (202) 365-4553
Cesar Rolon (773) 251-3329
Chicago, IL – The nation’s
largest and oldest Hispanic organization today
expressed its frustration and disappointment
with Cuba’s decision to refuse an exit visa for
the wife of a prominent dissident invited to
participate in a human rights panel at its
annual convention.
The League of the United Latin American Citizens
(LULAC), which is holding its 78th annual
convention in Chicago, invited Berta Soler
Fernandez to appear on a human rights panel
Thursday. She accepted the invitation but was
denied permission to visit the U.S. by the Cuban
government. She will appear via web cast today
from Havana at the workshop “Human Right
Struggle in Latin America” in room 307 at the
Navy Pier.
The National Board of the League of United Latin
American Citizens (LULAC) in October approved a
resolution calling for a peaceful transition to
democracy in Cuba.
LULAC supports the following:
• Urges the international
community, human rights organizations and
religious organizations to support the
Assembly’s mission to bring a peaceful
transition to democracy in Cuba,
• Urges the U.S. government
and the International community to actively
oppose any attempts by the Cuban government to
repress or punish the organizers and
participants of the Assembly,
• Promotes and defends human
rights and shares the pro-democracy ideals that
will hasten the return of freedom and democracy
for the people of Cuba,
• Calls for the immediate
release of all political prisoners and prisoners
of conscience from Cuban jails and prisons.
The League of United Latin
American Citizens, the oldest and largest Latino
membership organization in the country, advances
the economic conditions, educational attainment,
political influence, health and civil rights of
Hispanic Americans through community-based
programs operating at more than 700 LULAC
councils nationwide.
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