Name: Amado Ruiz Moreno

Post he/she occupies: Alternate Delegate,  Villa Clara

Organization to which he/she belongs: Democratic Party “30 November”.  “Plantados”

Province: Villa Clara

Place of birth: Placetas, Las Villas

Date of birth: 23 January 1945

I start to work in the opposition ten years ago.  I began in the National Council in 1995.  In 1997 I founded the Democratic Party “30 November”.  My house was alternate see of “Tamarindo 34”.  I’ve taken part in many activities, in the “30 November” and “Pedro Luis Boitel” and other organizations.  I have been detained many times.

Name:Olga Lilia González Barroso

Post he/she occupies: Provincial Secretary Villa Clara

Organization to which he/she belongs: Independent Library “Pablo Morales Barba”

Province: Villa Clara

Place of birth: Zaza del Medio, Sancti Spiritus

Date of birth: 24 November 1961.

I belong to the opposition since the year 2002.  Organize peaceful activities, support activities organized by relatives of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, as well as fast for them, etc.  I have not been imprisoned.

Name: Pedro Castellanos Pérez

Post he/she occupies: Delegate, Province of Cienfuegos

Organization to which he/she belongs: Democracy Movement

Province: Cienfuegos

Place of birth: Cienfuegos

Date of birth: 13 March 1940

I have been in the opposition since 1991.  I began my activities in 1991 within the Comittee for Human Rights (afterwards Party for Human Rights) where I stayed until 1998.  In 1999 I found the Democracy Movement, and I have been its National Delegate until now.  In 2001 I found the Independent Library “José A. García Taboada” and I join the Civil Society as a contact person.  In 2003 I was selected at the Democracy Movement in the United States, and was alternate delegate to its Congress, with Ramón Saúl Sánchez as Delegate, and Norma del Valle and Pedro Castellano Pérez as alternate delegates.  In Cuba I have strived to achieve a peaceful union among the opposition brethren; I belong to the "Plantados”, and I am proud to have been selected as the delegate of Civil Society for the Province of Cienfuegos.

Name: Pablo González Villa

Post he/she occupies: Alternate delegate of the province of Cienfuegos

Organization to which he/she belongs: Democratic Liberal Party

Province: Cienfuegos

Place of birth: Cienfuegos

Date of birth: 9 December 1964

I have been part of the opposition for the past 3 years.  I began as oppositor in the year 2002, in the Party for Human Rights; I worked as an activist and afterwards transferred to the Cuban Democratic Liberal Party, where I was in charge of organizational issues in the province.  Right now I am Alternate delegate of my province in the Assembly to Promote Civil Society, and independent librarian.

Name: Marco Antonio Calderón Echemendía

Post he/she occupies: Delegate of the Province of Sancti Spiritus

Organization to which he/she belongs: Democratic Party “30 November”

Province: Sancti Spiritus

Place of birth: Trinidad

Date of birth: 14 October 1960

I have been part of the opposition for 5 years.  I have not been sentenced, but in many occasions I have been detained for periods of time ranging between hours up to five days.  I began in the Democratic Solidarity Party, where I was Municipal Delegate, Organizer, Alternate delegate and Provincial Delegate.  In 2003 I joined the Democratic Party “30 November”, and I am the Municipal Delegate right now.  In 2002 I began to work with the group “Plantados”.  I direct the magazine “Vigilia”, and presently are Delegate for Sancti Spiritus of the Assembly to Promote Civil Society.  I am the author of 4 published books, and editor of magazines and books.  In 2001 I founded the Independent Library “Severo Sarduy”.  I have taken part in some vigils, activities, document distributions, pilgrimages, etc.

Name: Mario Echevarría Driggs

Post he/she occupies: President, Commission of Union Specialists

Organization to which he/she belongs: Cuban Organization of Christian Unions Vice-President

Province: Ciudad de La Habana

Place of birth: Habana, Municipality of Plaza

Date of birth: 5 January 1961

I have been part of the opposition since June 10, 2001.  I signed the Varela Project, and I was one of is promoters.  I am presently Vice president of the Cuban Organization of Christian Unions, whose president is our brother Carmelo Díaz Fernández (75). 

I have taken part in fasts and various activities for the libetarion of our political prisoners and prisoners of conscience.

I work as animator of the dissident groups in Central Park and “Fe del Valle”

I am a member of the Catholic Church, and I belong to the Team for the Promotion of the Social Doctrine of the Church.

Name: Juan Ramón Ortiz Morales

Post he/she occupies: Secretary, Commission of Union Specialists

Organization to which he/she belongs: Independent Federation of Eastern Workers

Province: Las Tunas

Place of birth: Las Tunas

Date of birth: 7 January 1963

 
I belong to the opposition since August 15^th, 2002.  I have been active to protect the rights of the workers, and to provide information about them.  I have not been imprisoned.  I point out that while I was affiliated to the Cuban Federation of Electricity, Gas, Water and Annexes, of the Cuban Confederation of Workers, we were ousted by Aleida Godínez Soler (agent of the State Security);  when it was discovered that she is an agent of the Department of State Security, we founded the Independent Federation of Eastern Workers, where I am provincial delegate; as it is the case that Mr. Pablo Gregorio Molina Nieve has obtained his visa, I susbsitute him as President.

Name: Manuel Fernández Rocha

Post he/she occupies: President, Commission of Historial Compilation

Organization to which he/she belongs: History Studies Forum

Province: Ciudad de La Habana

Place of birth: Havana

Date of birth: 7 March 1941

I have been part of the opposition for 25 years.  I support whatever plan can be feasible to obtain Cuba’s freedom and independence.

I have not been imprisoned.

Name: Dagoberto Montielo Galainena.

Post he/she occupies: President, Commission of Ecology and Environment.

Organization to which he/she belongs: Party for Human Rights in Cuba

Province: Pinar del Río

Place of birth: San Luis, Pinar del Río

Date of birth: 8 June 1963

I have been part of the opposition for 5 years.  I created the Western Council (10 October 2000) in the Municipality of Guana in Pinar del Río.  In the Municipality of San Luis, I have executed the projects “Cazadores de Sueños” and “Espacio Interior”.  Founder and Director of the Independent Library “Arístides Arteaga”.  I was a political prisoner for 6 years.  Even though I am the only oppositor in the Municipality of San Luis, and thus the political police has increased its harassment against me, I will go on fighting to achieve the change.

Name: Lázara Martí López

Post he/she occupies: Secretary, Commission of Ecology and Environment.

Organization to which he/she belongs: Independent Librarian

Province: Ciudad de La Habana

Place of birth: Havana

Date of birth: 5 March 1957

I belong to the opposition since 1997.  Since 1997 I began to collaborate with the Agency UPECI, then directed by María de los Angeles González Amaro.  Later I joined the Movement “24 February”.  I was ousted from  my workplace, the Enterprise for Water Works in Arroyo Naranjo.

I presented a thesis on School Libraries in the Congress of Educators. I took part in the activities that took place in Butari park.  I was present in every fast and vigil convened by the Movement “24 February”, and I participated in many activities in the street.  I took part in the first groups in Central Park.

I have not been imprisoned as a political prisoner, but I have been detained many times.  I have always supported the marchs in the church of Santa Rita, since they began in the year 2000.

Name:   Eliobel Garriga Cabreras

Post he/she occupies: Delegate, Province of Pinar del Río

Organization to which he/she belongs: Racial Integration Movement “Juan Gualberto Gómez”

Province: Pinar del Río

Place of birth: Ciudad de Pinar del Río

Date of birth: 21 April 1967

I have been part of the opposition since 1988.  I have taken part in many activities of the opposition, both in my province as in other places; I have been a victim of many sorts of police repression.  I have contributed to the Varela Project, gathering signatures; also with “Freedom for Political Prisoners” and “Delay for Death Penalty”; I attend on a regular basis lectures and cultural activities in the Center for Civic and Religious Formation of Pinar del Río;  I try to increase the number of members of the opposition.  In July 2003, at 11:00 pm. I was arrested in my home; around midnight I was left by agents of the Political Police under Lt. Lázaro G. Reyes Rodríguez in a place more than 30 km. away.  The place  -where I was taken lying in an incomfortable position within the car- was in the breeding grounds of water buffaloes, savage mammals.  Afterwards, towards the end of this month, I was threatened with the Law of Endangerment, 88, if I continued in the opposition. The aforementioned officer proferred this menace, along with Lt.-Col. Machín, who told me I would be shot because I denounced the events that happened on July 2003 in the town of La Coloma, where I live.  I am member of fraternal associations.

Name: Pedro González Acosta

Post he/she occupies: Provincial Alternate Delegate from Pinar del Río

Organization to which he/she belongs: Vice president, National Civic Movement “Máximo Gómez Báez”

Province: Pinar del Río

Place of birth: San Juan y Martínez

Date of birth: 20 December 1965

I belong to the opposition since 1999.  At the beginning I was municipal delegate in San Juan y Martínez, since June 28, 2001; I have taken place in conmemorative activities, such as 28 January, 24 February, 13 July, 5 August, 10 October, 8 September, 10 December.  I am an independent librarian: "Martin Luther King II”, provincial alternate delegate for the Assembly to Promote Civil Society in Cuba.  Since January 19 I belong to the national Executive Group.  In the Province of Pinar del Río I occupy the post of  National Vice-president of the National Civic Movement “Máximo Gómez Báez”.  I have been imprisoned on many occasions, by the Department of State Security in the Province of Pinar del Río.  I served time in prison not as a political prisoner, but it was a trial manipulated by the Head of the State Secutiry, Roberto Rivera Mena, and  a Major of the Revolutionary National Police (Soto); I end my term on August 19, 2002.  I was summoned by6 the officer of the State Secutiry José Ernesto Morales Estrada on April 14, 18 and 19, and he threatened me saying that if I attented the meeting on May 20,  I would be sanctioned under Law 88 ( Gag Law).

Name: Rafael Bueno Ramírez

Post he/she occupies: Secretary, Provincial Delegation of Pinar del Río

Organization to which he/she belongs: CONIC  (National Independent Coordinator for Cuban Workers)

Province: Pinar del Río

Place of birth: Pinar del Río

Date of birth: 31 October 1972.

I have been in the opposition for 13 years.

I was head writer of the Magazine “Patria y Libertad”, and “Cuba por Dentro”

I have not been imprisoned.

Name: Mario Servando Pérez Rodríguez

Post he/she occupies: Alternate delegate, Province of Havana

Organization to which he/she belongs: Independent Library “Atenas”, Atenas Information Center, Director of “Club Atenas”

Province: Havana

Place of birth: Placetas, Villa Clara

Date of birth: 26 January 1950

I belong to the opposition since 1991.  I join the Pro Human Rights Party in 1991, in the Municipality of San José de Las Lajas, Havana.  In 1992 I join the Cuban Confederation of Workers; on February 24, 2002, I found the Independent Library “Atenas”.  On August 5, 2002, I create the Club “Atenas” and the Information Center.  On September 1, 2002, I found the P.P.D.H.C (AFAS).  On December 10, 2002, I found the ten first Houses for Citizen Opinion.  I inscribe the Independent Library, the Information Center and the Club “Atenas” in the Assembly.  On May 14, 2003, I participate in the Workshop on Journalism Ethics.  Since October 2004, I write for the webpage of the A.D.Cuba. I presently teach a journalism course at the Library.

I have not been imprisoned.

I graduated as an Architect in 1978 from the Polytechnic Institute “José Antonio Echeverría”, University of Havana.

Name:   María Valdés Rosado

Post he/she occupies: Secretary of the Commission of Mandate, and Provincial Delegate (Group 1) of Havana

Organization to which he/she belongs: Christian Democratic Cuban Party.

Province: Havana.

Place of birth: Havana

Date of birth: 30 December 1942

I belong to the opposition since 1986.  As President of the Christian Democratic Cuban Movement since 1991, I participated in the Concertation headed by Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz and María Elena Cruz Varela;  together with Gladis Rodríguez (E) and Aida Rosa Jiménez (Mothers for Fraternity), “Cuban Council”, F.U.N., “Todos Unidos”, Varela Project; founder of the Assembly to Promote Civil Society.

Go on, God willing, fighting to reach complete democracy for the Cuban people, without political aspirations.

I have been detained 4 times, in Villa Marista and 100 y Aldabó.

Name: Israel Picallo Ortiz

Post he/she occupies: Secretary, Province of Ciudad de La Habaha, Group No. 1

Organization to which he/she belongs: Independent Press Bureau of Cuba. Independent Library “Jesús Ortiz”.

Province: Ciudad de La Habana

Place of birth: Havana

Date of birth: 24 May 1944

I belong to the opposition since 1944.  Founder of the Independent Press Bureau of Cuba, Unitary Council of Cuban Workers, Independent Workers Press Agency (Unitary Council of Cuban Workers), Democratic Solidarity Party, and Socialist Current.  At the present I belong to the Administrative Commission, Secretary, Province of Ciudad de La Habana, of the Assembly to Promote Civil Society;  in the Unitary Council of Cuban Workers, in charge of International Relations; in the B.P.I.C., as alternate Director; member of the Democratic Solidarity Party, collaborator with the Socialist Current and with the Association of Political Prisoners “Pedro Luis Boitel”.  I was imprisoned for a year (1967 to 1968) in La Cabaña (section 17).  I obtained a graduate degree in Journalism, and I have been working as such for the Cuban Workers Central (National), in the Radio Station C.O.C.O;  I graduated as a photography specialist, and as such I have worked in the Museum “Wilfredo Lam”, “Museo de Bellas Artes”, “Museo del Castillo de la Fuerza”, and for the magazine “Mar y Pesca”.  I have always worked as a journalist in the opposition, because that is my field of expertise; right now I write for the Independent Press Bureau and for Noti-Libre.

Name: Miguel Valdés Tamayo

Post he/she occupies: Delegate, Ciudad de La Habana, Group No. 2

Organization to which he/she belongs: Movement “Fraternal Brothers for Dignity”

Province: Ciudad de La Habana

Place of birth: Marianao

Date of birth: 20 December 1956

I belong to the opposition since 1993.  Since the beginning, I have taken part in manifestations of civic disobedience, as symbolic marches. fasts, vigils for inconditional freedom for all political parties; religious activities in various churches, for the health and freedom of all political prisoners.  I was imprisoned when the 75 were captured, and I served for a year and three months, with an extra-penal permit.  Since the year 2000, I serve in several positions within my group, and right now I am its President.

Name: José Ildefonso Vélez Hernández

Post he/she occupies: Alternate Delegate, Ciudad de La Habana (Group No. 2), Secretary of the Commission for Public Relations.

Organization to which he/she belongs: Racial Integration Movement “Juan Gualberto Gómez”

Province: Ciudad de La Habana

Place of birth: Havana

Date of birth: 22 October 1945

I have been part of the opposition for the last 15 years.  I began with the “Movimiento Maceísta por la Dignidad”, I was vice-president of the Independent Christian Patriotic Union, and I founded the Racial Integration Movement “Juan Gualberto Gómez”.  I am in charge of organization at a national level for the Democratic Solidarity Party, and I am registered in the Assembly as President of the Racial Integration Movement.  In the Assembly I was elected Secretary of the Public Relations Commission and also alternate delegate for Ciudad de La Habana province.

Name:  Francisco Moure Saladrigas

Post he/she occupies: Secretary, Delegation of Ciudad de La Habana province, Group 2.

Organization to which he/she belongs: President, Movement to the Rescue of Freedom and Democracy.

Province: Ciudad de La Habana

Place of birth: Havana

Date of birth: 4 October 1959

I have been in the opposition for 13 years.  I carry out peaceful civil disobedience activities in the streets.  I have taken part in hunger strikes, I have distributed copies of Human Rights Declarations among the population, and carried on activities to honor the Inauguration of President Bush.  I have been in vigils for the political prisoners, without exile.  I have been imprisoned several times, though without cause.  I have been and continue to be threatened with imprisonment; on April 16, 2005, I was beaten by the para-military brigades and the State Security.

Name: Ramona Daisy Rivero Manzano

Post he/she occupies: Delegate, Ciudad de La Habana province,Grupo 3.

Organization to which he/she belongs: Organization of Worker’s Unions (Ortodox)

Province: Ciudad de La Habana

Place of birth: Amancio Rodríguez (antes Francisco), Las Tunas

Date of birth: 1 October 1942

I belong to the opposition since 1967, in La Rosa Blanca, Camagüey. 

Here in Havana, I joined in 1992 this same Organization (Union), directed in that year by Ibraín Carrillo Fernández; I direct it and try to maintain it active until the present day.

Name: Jesús Adolfo Reyes Sánchez

Post he/she occupies: Alternate delegate, Ciudad de La Habana province, Group 3

Organization to which he/she belongs: Association of Oppositors “Sons of Our Lady of Regla”

Province: Ciudad de La Habana

Place of birth: Sancti Spiritus

Date of birth: 3 March 1961

I belong to the opposition since 1990.  I have taken part in denounces and opening of free spaces.  I have been in prison.  I am esentially peaceful, even though I have the right to self-defense, which I have renounced so far.

Name: José Antonio Pérez Morell

Post he/she occupies: Delegate, Province of Matanzas

Organization to which he/she belongs: Independent Movement “Alternative Option”

Province: Matanzas

Place of birth: Matanzas

Date of birth: 14 January 1962

I belong to the opposition since November 16, 1996.  On December 10, 1998, we carried out an activity in the town square of Pedro Betancourt.  In  2000 the political police stormed over the site of the Independent Movement “Alternative Option” and interrupted the fast that was taking place there, with beatings, verbal abuse and detentions.  Every 28^th of January we have been detained, boarded into cars and taken to remote places, where we are forced to stay.  On January 28, 2002, we were beaten and detained, when we were going to participate in a meeting with Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet.  Another aspect to mention is that our movement will go on fighting against the regime that oppresses us and that unjustly sends us to prison, because we defend the right of every human being to freedom.  This is why we defend and support the Assembly to Promote Civil Society, because we see in it a way to show the population all its rights, and the possibility of living in a democracy; this population lives under the biggest terror in Cuba’s history, under the yoke of one single man who seeks only his personal interest, and not those of the fatherland.  I have been unjustly imprisoned

Name: Silvio Herrera Núñez

Post he/she occupies: Secretary, Provincial Delegation of Ciudad de La Habana, Group 3.

Organization to which he/she belongs: Independent Library “Jesús Yanez Pelletier”

Province: Ciudad de La Habana

Place of birth: Manicaragua, Villa Clara

Date of birth: 11 January 1952

I have been in the opposition for 17 years.  I work with Jesús Yanez Pelletier; together with Francisco Pascual Morfi and Juan Hernández, I founded the association ANLIF in 1990.  In 1999 I founded the Press Agency “Carlos Piñeiro” and afterwards I started working with Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello at the Cuban Institute of Independent Economists.  When Sánchez Pelletier died, I founded the Independent Library that bears his name, and presently I work as correspondent of the Magazine “Letters from Cuba”.

Name: Enrique Pérez Hernández

Post he/she occupies: Alternate delegate, province of Matanzas

Organization to which he/she belongs: Movement “New Alternative” and Independent Library “Henry Reeve”

Province: Matanzas

Place of birth: Cárdenas, Matanzas

Date of birth: 17 July 1970

I have been part of the opposition for 3 years.  During my relatively short time in the opposition I have participated in vigils, fasts, activities convened for such dates as 10 December, 5 August, 24 February, 20 May, 28 January;  I have provided support to different organizations in their activities, and for this I have been arrested and beaten.  For example, on December 6, 2002, I was called for a lecture on Human Rights by Doctor Oscar Elías Biscet;  there I was savagely beaten, together with 16 brothers, and afterwards imprisoned for five days in the unit of Avenida de Acosta, in Havana.  As President of the Movement “New Alternative”, I count with several municipal delegations, and a large number of members; we work hard with them to provide their training as oppositors.  I maintain a firm position regarding my principles and my manner of struggle against the Cuban government and all its supporters.  As a librarian I carry out several activities in my community, like literary encounters, study circles, movie-debates, and some especially with children and young people.  At the present time I am involved in the unity of the organizations with my province, together with other brothers that form the Coordination for Democratic Oppositors in Matanzas.  I have not been sanctioned nor imprisoned so far as a prisoner of conscience, but I have an open record due to the events of December 6, 2002: disobedience, irrespect and resistence.  I wans to stress that I belong to “Los Plantados” for the province of Matanzas.

Name: Joheny Junco Sardiña

Post he/she occupies: Secretary, Provincial Delegation of Matanzas

Organization to which he/she belongs: Independent Movement “Alternative Option”

Province: Matanzas

Place of birth: Matanzas

Date of birth: 20 January 1073

I have been in the opposition since 1997.  On December 10, 1998, we took place in a public activity in the town square of the Municipality of Pedro Betancourt.  On January 28, 2002, we were the victims of an act of repudiation organized by the Communist Party and the repressive organs of the present regime, where we were thrown cans on fire.  In the year 2002 my family was the victim of a terrorist attack, where the lives of 4 minors was endangered.  In the year 2002, our movement had a meeting with Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet on December 6, and once there we were beaten and imprisoned.  In 2003, on March 18, I was arrested by the political police and threy told me that they were going to make us disappear, and we would remain many years in prison.  At the present, we have suffered persecution and harassment.  I have been unjustly arrested, without cause.

Name: Angela Mercedes Salinas Batle

Post he/she occupies: Secretary, Commission of Youth and Childhood

Organization to which he/she belongs: Independent Press Service NotiCuba

Province: Ciudad de La Habana

Place of birth: El Santo, Villa Clara

Date of birth: 2 October 1941

I have been part of the opposition for 7 years.  Activist of the Lawton Foundation for Human Rights (FLDH) (1998); hunger strike for 24 hours in solidarity with the strike that the leader of the Democracy Movement, Ramón Saúl Sánchez, was carrying on in Miami (1998); Support of 40 days of fasting, effort headed by Dr. Biscet (1999); activist in support of NotiCuba service (1999); participation on behalf of FLDH in the three main civil disobedience activities that took place in “El Valle”: Anniversary of 13 July and two fasting periods for the freedom of Dr. Biscet and the rest of the political prisoners (2000-2001);  support for the meetings of the FLDH and other opposition groups, to the classes about civil disobedience and press conferences given by Dr. Biscet in my house;  I signed the document “To the homeland we say: here we are!” (2003); activist in Cuba for APSC (2005); I have participed in the activities organized by churches, convened by APSC (2005).

Collaborator of the Committee For Change.  I was called by the police and interrogated in 2003, when the document “To the homeland we say: here we are” was released, where the arrest of the 75 was condemned, and our unshakable opposition to the regime was reaffirmed.

Name: Angel Pablo Polanco Torrejón

Post he/she occupies: President of the Commission of Free Ideological Expression

Organization to which he/she belongs: Independent Press Service NotiCuba

Province: Ciudad de La Habana

Place of birth: Victoria de Las Tunas

Date of birth: 2 March 1942

I have been part of the opposition for 10 years:  elaboration and distribution among the population of documents referring to the difficulties in which the government has sunken the people (1995-1996); activist of the Movement for Human Rights “24 February”; independent journalists for CPI and for the electronic journal CubaNet (1997); collaborator of Radio Martí (1998); activist of the Lawton Foundation for Human Rights (FLDH) (1998); complete coverage of the 40 days of fasting (1999); founder and director of the Service NotiCuba (1999); collaborator with the Opinion section of the Miami Herald (2002); member of the Journalist Society “Manuel Márquez Sterling” (2002); activist for the Assembly to Promote Civil Society (ASPC) (2002); promotor of the document “To the homeland we say: here we are”; member of the Board of Directors of the FLDH (2003); coverage to activities carried out by the opposition, especially civil disobedience (1998-2004); spokesperson for APSC (2004); co-author of the document “Initiative for Change” (2004); founder and President of the Committee for Change” (2005); I have been arrested 12 times (1998-2002).  The first time, due to  my clandestine activities. Ten times, for my coverage as a journalist to the activities of the opposition, mainly those of civil disobedience, and the last one being charged of the crimes of encouraging criminal conducts, irrespect, and offense to the national symbols; this charges were dismissed after two months of home imprisonment.

Name:  René de Jesús Gómez Manzano

Post he/she occupies: President of the Commission of Juridical Issues 

Organization to which he/she belongs: Corriente Agramontista

Province: Ciudad de La Habana

Place of birth: La Habana

Date of birth: 19 December 1943.

Since the late eighties I began to defend systematically my fellow citizens who were accused of crimes against the State Security.  Apart from my work as defensor of political prisoners, around 1985 I  started to organize the “Movimiento Agramontista” (of independent lawyers), whose formal registration with the Ministry of Justice was started in 1990. I was coordinator of the Provisional Negotiating Council of the “Cuban Council”, and one of the four members of the Internal Dissidence Work Group (“Group of the four”) as well. I was one of the writers and signataries of the document “The homeland is for all”.  Due to my activities within the “Group of the four” I was punished with four years in prison; I served three.  I was always recognized as a prisoner of consciences by international organizations such as Amnisty International.  I have been detained and harassed several times;  I have degrees of Law from the Universities of Moscow and Havana.  I have practiced law in collective law offices, including ten years as “ex officio” lawyer at the Supreme Court.

Name: Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello

Post he/she occupies: President of the Commission of Economic Issues

Organization to which he/she belongs: Cuban Institute of Independent Economists “Manuel Sánchez Herrero”

Province: Ciudad de La Habana

Place of birth: Havana

Date of birth: 16 May 1945

I belong to the opposition since 1989: more than 16 years.  I began my activities in the National Association of Independent Economists of Cuba, where I was Vice President.  After the creation of the Cuban Institute of Independent Economists, I became its President.

I have served two prison terms, as a prisoner of conscience.  The first one, together with the other three members of the Work Group of the Internal Dissidence, from July 1997 until May 2000.  The second, from March 2003 until July 2004, as part of the Group of 75  of the Black March of 2003. At the present I am with an extra-penal license.

Name: Wilber Lincoln Franco L.

Post he/she occupies: Secretary of the Commission of Religious Issues

Organization to which he/she belongs: “Abraham Lincoln” Library, P.C.D.C.

Province: Camagüey

Place of birth: Palma Soriano, Santiago de Cuba

Date of birth: 30 May 1960

I have been part of the opposition for 7 years.  Among my activities I can mention the attention to political prisoners and provincial Alternate Delegate.  I have been imprisoned.

Name: Carlos Raúl Jiménez Carrero

Post he/she occupies: Secretary of the Commission to Analyze the Documents from the Exile

Organization to which he/she belongs: Movement “Nationalist Agenda”

Province: Ciudad de La Habana

Place of birth: Havana

Date of birth: 21 December 1951

I belong to the opposition since 1991.  I began in the “Criterio Alternativo” Movement, afterwards I joined for a short time the Democratic Civic

Association, and since the year 1993 I joined the Movement “Nationalist Agenda”, until now. I am its President since 1997.  I have been detained in several occasions, but I have never been sanctioned.  For example, in December 1998 I was 12 days in Villa Maristas, and 10 days in July 1994.  I am founding member of the National Council for Civic Resistence in Cuba.  I have participated in many protest activities such as: patriotic marchs, distribution of protest documents at Villa Marista and at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, civil disobedience activities; I have denounced human rights violations, and participated in other peaceful civic resistence and civil disobedience activities.