Author: Oswaldo Paya | Journal of Democracy

Oswaldo Payá is founder of the Varela Project, a Cuban prodemocracy movment, and the 2002 recipient of the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. His letter was translated from the Spanish by Fernando Ruiz.

April 2004, Volume 15, Issue 2

Exchange: The Czech Past and the Cuban Future

Václav Havel
Oswaldo Paya

In an exchange of letters, leading Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya discusses with Vaclav Havel the lessons that the Czechoslovak experience offers to Cubans seeking a democratic transition in thier own country.