Identidades in English No 1, February 2014 | Page 52

The Cuban civil movement and its international repercussions

The World is Now Seeing
The Truth about Cuba
Leonardo Calvo Cárdenas
Historian and political scientist
Vice President Progressive Arc Party (PARP)
National Vice Coordinator, Citizens’ Committee for Racial Integration (CIR)
IDENTIDADES Representative in Cuba
Havana, Cuba

T

he public hearings present at the 149th session
of the Organization of American States’ InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights

(IACHR) concluded with a reaffirmation of a commitment to the State and civil society of its member countries. In particular, this was the first time that Cuba’s
reality was shared with this important diplomatic and

José de Jesús Orozco (President), commissioners Rose-Marie Antoine (Special Rapporteur for Afro-descendants), Dinah Shelton and lawyer O. Hilaire Sobers (attorney) for the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights, the Organization of American States (OAS), with Luis Ernesto Olave (Colombia), Cecilia
Moreno (Panama), Juan Antonio Alvarado (Cuba) and Leonardo Calvo (Cuba), participants in the session titled: “Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean.” 149th Period of Sessions, November 1, 2013.
Washington, D.C.

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