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Article: Cuban dissidents meet for historic opposition assembly.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- May 20, 2005
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Byline: Vanessa Bauza
HAVANA _ Under a hand-painted banner proclaiming, "The homeland belongs to all," about 150 Cuban dissidents from across the island gathered for a landmark opposition meeting to demand freedom for political prisoners and debate the future of their fledging civic and political organizations.
The bold challenge to President Fidel Castro was marred by the Cuban government's expulsion of several European lawmakers, Polish journalists and a member of the Cuban American National Foundation who traveled to Havana to attend the meeting.
Although Cuban state security officials reportedly warned many Cuban participants not to attend, ...