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Indeed, a totalitarian government’s domestic savagery is indissolubly connected to the external menace posed by its rulers. During the uncertain years of the Cold War, we had world-famous dissident-intellectuals such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov to remind us of this. It’s a lesson worth remembering as we ponder the awful dilemma of what to do about North Korea...
...known, like Lech Walesa in Poland or Corazon Aquino in the Philippines. But Paya's celebrity is beginning to rival Castro's. During his visit to Cuba last year, ex-President Jimmy Carter hailed Paya in a speech broadcast to every Cuban household. Paya won the European Union's Sakharov Prize for human rights last December. Vaclav Havel, who led the "velvet revolution" that toppled communism in Czechoslovakia, has nominated Paya for the Nobel Peace Prize. Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival last week canceled its screening of Oliver Stone's documentary on Castro, Comandante, and showed instead...
...repairman, is right when he calls the MCL Cuba's first real dissident force in 44 years - the first, anyway, to convince tens of thousands of Cubans to forget their fear and sign petitions seeking a referendum on democratic freedoms. That effort won Payá the European Union's Sakharov Prize for human rights last December; but it also moved Castro, 76, to respond with a wave of arrests. Castro has been careful not to jail the internationally popular Payá, who likens his movement to the Prague Spring that preceded the Soviet crackdown of '68. "This is a Cuban...
...constitutional referendum on free speech and elections. Castro's ire at the growing popularity of Paya seems a key impetus for the dragnet, since most of those arrested are Varela activists. But Castro has apparently decided that arresting Paya, who last year won the European Union's Sakharov Award for human rights, would attract the kind of attention Castro doesn't want. Paya told TIME last week he fears he could still be imprisoned: "I'm waiting for the knock on the door any moment now." --By Tim Padgett
...arrested is physicist Oswaldo Paya, 51, head of the Varela Project, which is calling for a constitutional referendum on free speech and elections. Paya's growing popularity may have triggered the dragnet, since most of those arrested are Varela activists. Paya himself, who last year won the E.U.'s Sakharov Award for human rights, remains free, at least for now. "I'm waiting for the knock on the door any moment now," he told TIME last week. - By Tim Padgett