La juventud cubana- Premio Libertad Pedro Luis Boitel 2008

http://www.directorio.org/pressreleases/note.php?note_id=2143
Miami. September 29, 2008. Cuban Democratic Directorate. The Eighth Annual Pedro Luis Boitel Freedom Award, an honor recognizing Cuban pro-democracy activists on the Island, was presented on Friday, September 26, in the city of Doral. This years award honored the Cuban Youth, and was accepted by recently exiled activist Eliécer Consuegra Rivas on behalf of the growing movement on the Island of young Cubans for freedom.

The ceremonys keynote address was delivered by US Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutiérrez, who spoke to an audience including Cuban exile leaders and other supporters of the nonviolent civic struggle for democracy taking place in Cuba.

I had the luck to be there when this award came into being, in Eastern Europe, in a bus leaving Tbilisi in 2000. The idea was conceived by Romanian activist Gabriel Andrescu. If Andrescu were here tonight he would be happy his idea had borne so much fruit. Here today is Bertha Antúnez whom I first met in Cuba, and who won this award in 2004; and here also is Eliécer Consuegra, a remarkable young man who was waging the struggle on the Island until just a few days ago. That is why this is a special night, said Javier De Céspedes, president of the Cuban Democratic Directorate, his voice full of emotion.

During the ceremony, Cuban Democratic Directorate National Secretary Dr. Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat presented a video on the struggle being waged by young Cubans on the Island and their active participation in a national movement for free expression.

The examples of young people like José Daniel Ferrer García, currently held at Guantánamo prison, like Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina and the five thousand youths who signed a petition for university autonomy and academic freedom, of rocker Gorki Ávila just a few weeks ago, and the protests in the University of Autonomy, are just a few of the instantes of the Cuban youths rebellion in the past months, stated Gutiérrez-Boronat during his remarks before the packed hall.

Eliécer Consuegra Rivas, who arrived in exile this past September 4, and was president of the Eastern Democratic Alliance in Cuba until his departure, accepted the award honoring the Cuban youth opposition movement from the hands of Bertha Antúnez.

It is in the name of those young people who struggle for Cubas sake with such courage and love, of Néstor and Rolando Rodríguez Lobaina, of the recently imprisoned Yordis García Fornier and Isael Poveda, and of so many others who struggle for freedom in Cuba that I come here. I tell you that this is the moment to support those young people, that this community who has never abandoned us, that this exile community help us to achieve victory. There in Cuba, these young people remain, as political prisoner Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta would say, upright in the face of terror, stated Consuegra Rivas to the audiences applause.

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[sadieldv]

divulguen su boletin `por internet, hagan lo posible para que el mundo se entere de su esfuerzo por la libertad de Cuba

[PerlitaHabanera]

Ya basta de tanta dictadura !! El Pueblo Cubano es el que tiene que decidir su destino y pelear porque los derechos humanos se respeten. Cuba es de los cubanos, NO de Fidel Castro !! Como bien dice ese muchacho, las historia de Cuba NO es Fidel Castro, la historia de Cuba tiene 100 de años. Antes que Castro apareciera, ya habiamos ganados nuestra independencia !! Eso es lo que es Castro, historia no mas!

[manny298]

Let's face it, It is going to be very costly for the Cuban people to get their freedom that was taken away. I am surprised no one is shipping AK 47 for the Cuban people. AK47 is know as the Freedom machine. Freedom is not free... especially when it was taken away. You must always fight and protect your freedom once you get it again.

[MartirioEterno]

Por favor, cámbienle esa canción de Buena Fé a la entrada al artículo!!!

[lopezvideo]

El mundo continuara no creo con la venda en los ojos mas bien mira con indiferencia a un pueblo que lleva mas de50 Años con un mismo dictador con presos politicos en huelga de hambre desde sus inicios en la decada del 1960 al 1970 habian en Cuba mas de 70,000 presos politiccos muchos de ellos fusilados por el chacal de la cabaña hoy tan venerado por muchos estupidos o simplemente comunistas el Che .

ABAJO LA DICTADURA CASTRISTA!

Y TODOS SUS SEGUIDORES

[leobh40]

Cubano, toca a deguello..basta de dictadura..VIVA CUBA LIBRE COJONE!!!!!

[iluminadita100]

Mi apoyo incondicional para ustedes. Basta ya de tanta represión a la Libertad de expresión y basta ya de censuras y manipulación de la Historia de Cuba. Somos seres pensantes y tenemos derecho a conocer la verdad e interpretarla por nosotros mismos. La Historia como la Patria es de todos y ningún gobierno tiene el derecho de secuestrarla para su beneficio. ¡Autonomía Universitaria, para ser cultos y LIBRES‼ ¡Abajo la DICATADURA, Caray‼