(EFE).- Cuban opposition leader Oswaldo Payá, whose death marks 10 years this month, will have a street named after him in Miami at the initiative of two Miami Dade commissioners (councilmen), according to the Payá family to different media. .
The inauguration of the Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas Way, which will cover the section of LeJeune Avenue between 11th and 14th streets in the northwest of the city of Miami, will take place on July 21, the eve of the tenth anniversary of the opponent’s death.
The Payá family has denounced before international organizations, including the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Cuban State as responsible for the death of the leader of the Christian Liberation Movement.
The bill sponsored by Miami-Dade Commissioners Rebeca Sosa and José Pepe Díaz to name a Miami street after Oswaldo Payá received the backing of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, among other elected officials.
Payá’s family hopes that this designation will prompt federal legislators to approve a bill that assigns the name of the deceased opposition leader to the street of the Cuban embassy in Washington.
The bill was presented last March in the lower house of Congress by Republican Representative Mario Díaz-Balart and a group of congressmen of Cuban origin, both Democrats and Republicans.
A similar project sponsored by Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, Republicans of Cuban origin, was approved in the Senate in 2021.
A similar project sponsored by Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, Republicans of Cuban origin, was approved in the Senate in 2021.
In addition to being a leader of the Christian Liberation Movement, Payá was the promoter of the Varela Project, a campaign to collect signatures carried out since 1998 in support of the presentation of a bill before the Cuban Congress to recognize the rights of the people Cuban.
Payá died along with Harold Cepero, also an opponent, in a car accident in Cuba on July 22, 2012. The driver of the car, the Spanish politician Ángel Carromero, was accused by the Cuban justice of reckless driving and was imprisoned in Cuba, but, for an agreement between governments, he did not serve his entire sentence on the island.
“The truth is that they were assassinated by state security agents on orders that could only be dictated by Fidel or Raúl Castro,” said Payá’s daughter, who heads the Cuba Decide movement, in statements made last March on the occasion of the presentation of a documentary about his father.
The Robert F. Kennedy Center is handling the case and representing Payá’s family in the lawsuit filed against the Cuban State before the IACHR together with the relatives of Harold Cepero.
In a virtual hearing held on December 14, 2021, Carromero, of the conservative Popular Party, said that throughout the trip they were watched by State Security vehicles that followed them; one of them knocked them off the road and that caused the collision.
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