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Article: Maria Elena Gonzalez Mederos, Activist for Cuban Causes, Dies
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 23, 1996
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Maria Elena Gonzalez Mederos, 63, a government statistician
who was an activist for human rights in Cuba, died of cardiac arrest
Feb. 19 at a hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A resident of
Washington, she was vacationing there when stricken.
Ms. Gonzalez was a trustee and treasurer of Of Human Rights,
an organization that disseminates information about human rights in
Cuba. She had worked in campaigns for the release of political
prisoners in Cuba.
In 1989, she translated into English "The Bell of Dawn," a
book of poems written by Ernesto Diaz Rodriguez, a Cuban prisoner
for 22 years until he was released.
Ms. Gonzalez was born in Cuba. She studied at the University
of Havana ...