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Armando Valladares

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Armando Valladares Perez (born May 30, 1937) is a Cuban poet, diplomat, and human rights activist. [1]

24 relations: Alejandro Peña Esclusa, Andrew Hurley (academic), Che Guevara, Cuban dissident movement, Cuban-American lobby, David Rivera, Geraldine Ferraro, Human Rights Foundation, Human rights in Cuba, Hunger strike, Ischia International Journalism Award, Isla de la Juventud, List of Cuban Americans, List of Oslo Freedom Forum participants, Oslo Freedom Forum, Pedro Luis Boitel, Plantado, Presidential Citizens Medal, Presidio Modelo, Resistance International, Thor Halvorssen (businessman), United States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Vladimir Bukovsky.

Alejandro Peña Esclusa

Alejandro Peña Esclusa (born 3 July 1954 Periodismo de Verdad, 5 August 2010) is a Venezuelan politician, leader of the Venezuelan NGO Fuerza Solidaria (since May 2001) and president of the pan-Latin-American NGO UnoAmérica (since December 2008).

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Andrew Hurley (academic)

Andrew Hurley is primarily known as an English translator of Spanish literature, having translated a variety of authors, most notably the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.

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Che Guevara

Ernesto "Che" Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967)The date of birth recorded on was June 14, 1928, although one tertiary source, (Julia Constenla, quoted by Jon Lee Anderson), asserts that he was actually born on May 14 of that year.

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Cuban dissident movement

The Cuban dissident movement is a political movement in Cuba whose aim is "to replace the current regime with a more democratic form of government".

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Cuban-American lobby

The Cuban-American lobby describes those various groups of Cuban exiles in the United States and their descendants who have historically influenced the United States' policy toward Cuba.

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David Rivera

David Mauricio Rivera (born September 16, 1965) is a Republican politician from Florida.

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Geraldine Ferraro

Geraldine Anne "Gerry" Ferraro (August 26, 1935 March 26, 2011) was an American attorney and Democratic Party politician who served in the United States House of Representatives.

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Human Rights Foundation

The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is a non-profit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies.

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Human rights in Cuba

Human rights in Cuba are under the scrutiny of human rights organizations, who accuse the Cuban government of systematic human rights abuses, including arbitrary imprisonment and unfair trials.

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Hunger strike

A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance or pressure in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change.

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Ischia International Journalism Award

The Ischia International Journalism Award is one of the most important Italian journalism awards.

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Isla de la Juventud

Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Youth) is the second-largest Cuban island and the seventh-largest island in the West Indies (after Cuba itself, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and Andros Island).

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List of Cuban Americans

This is a list of notable Cuban Americans, including immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

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List of Oslo Freedom Forum participants

The following is a list of persons who have attended the Oslo Freedom Forum.

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Oslo Freedom Forum

Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) is a series of global conferences run by the New York-based non-profit Human Rights Foundation under the slogan “Challenging Power.” OFF was founded in 2009 as a one-time event and has taken place annually ever since.

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Pedro Luis Boitel

Pedro Luis Boitel (1931–May 25, 1972) was a Cuban poet and dissident who opposed the governments of both Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro.

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Plantado

Plantados, the most stubborn political prisoners in Fidel Castro's jails, the ones who endured the harshest punishment.

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Presidential Citizens Medal

The Presidential Citizens Medal is an award bestowed by the President of the United States.

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Presidio Modelo

The Presidio Modelo was a "model prison" of Panopticon design, built on Isla de Pinos (now the Isla de la Juventud) in Cuba.

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Resistance International

Resistance International was an international anti-communist organisation that existed between 1983 and 1988.

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Thor Halvorssen (businessman)

Thor Halvorssen Hellum (born in Caracas May 16, 1943- July 20, 2014)—commonly known as Thor Halvorssen—was a Venezuelan-Norwegian businessman who served as CEO and President of the Venezuelan state-owned telephone company, CANTV and later as Special Commissioner for International Narcotic Affairs in the administration of President Carlos Andrés Pérez.

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United States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council

The United States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council is the diplomatic representative of the United States to the United Nations Human Rights Council.

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Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is a non-profit educational organization in the United States, authorized by a unanimous Act of Congress in 1993 for the purpose of educating Americans about the ideology, history and legacy of communism.

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Vladimir Bukovsky

From the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (Влади́мир Константи́нович Буко́вский; b. 30 December 1942) was a prominent figure in the Soviet dissident movement, well-known at home and abroad.

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Armando F. Valladares, Armando Valladares Perez.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armando_Valladares

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