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CADAL informed the Argentine Foreign Minister that several colleagues from Cuba have visited Argentina in previous years to raise awareness about the human rights situation in their country and to participate in training programs on democratic transitions. Among the Cuban guests invited to Argentina by CADAL are Marthadela Tamayo and Osvaldo Navarro of the Citizens’ Committee for Racial Integration (CIR); journalists Reinaldo Escobar (14ymedio) and Camila Rodríguez (Cubanet); lay Catholic Dagoberto Valdés (Center for Coexistence Studies); activist Manuel Cuesta Morúa (Progressive Arc); “Lady in White” Magaly Broche (Cuban Reflection Movement); and San Isidro Movement artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara (currently imprisoned), among others. During their visits to Buenos Aires, both Dagoberto Valdés and Manuel Cuesta Morúa were declared Honorary Guests by the Buenos Aires City Legislature. Additionally, Magaly Broche’s husband, former political prisoner Librado Linares, was one of the 2023 recipients of the Graciela Fernández Meijide Award for the Defense of Human Rights, granted by CADAL. CADAL reminded the Argentine Foreign Minister that National Day receptions hosted by democratic countries at their embassies abroad typically include not only local government officials and foreign diplomats, but also civil society leaders and members of the political opposition. CADAL noted to Minister Werthein that since the first such request was made to his predecessor Rafael Bielsa in 2003—and repeated with successive foreign ministers under different administrations—Argentina has consistently upheld a policy of exclusion, effectively extending the Cuban one-party regime’s criminalization of independent civil society actors. CADAL also pointed out that the Cuban dictatorship’s embassy in Argentina has engaged with local opposition figures critical of President Javier Milei’s administration. Therefore, a gesture by Argentina’s mission in Havana to recognize democratic leaders in Cuba—beginning with inviting some of them to the upcoming May 25 celebration—would be a principled act of reciprocity in how both countries engage with political opposition forces.
CADAL informed the Argentine Foreign Minister that several colleagues from Cuba have visited Argentina in previous years to raise awareness about the human rights situation in their country and to participate in training programs on democratic transitions. Among the Cuban guests invited to Argentina by CADAL are Marthadela Tamayo and Osvaldo Navarro of the Citizens’ Committee for Racial Integration (CIR); journalists Reinaldo Escobar (14ymedio) and Camila Rodríguez (Cubanet); lay Catholic Dagoberto Valdés (Center for Coexistence Studies); activist Manuel Cuesta Morúa (Progressive Arc); “Lady in White” Magaly Broche (Cuban Reflection Movement); and San Isidro Movement artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara (currently imprisoned), among others.
During their visits to Buenos Aires, both Dagoberto Valdés and Manuel Cuesta Morúa were declared Honorary Guests by the Buenos Aires City Legislature. Additionally, Magaly Broche’s husband, former political prisoner Librado Linares, was one of the 2023 recipients of the Graciela Fernández Meijide Award for the Defense of Human Rights, granted by CADAL.
CADAL reminded the Argentine Foreign Minister that National Day receptions hosted by democratic countries at their embassies abroad typically include not only local government officials and foreign diplomats, but also civil society leaders and members of the political opposition.
CADAL noted to Minister Werthein that since the first such request was made to his predecessor Rafael Bielsa in 2003—and repeated with successive foreign ministers under different administrations—Argentina has consistently upheld a policy of exclusion, effectively extending the Cuban one-party regime’s criminalization of independent civil society actors.
CADAL also pointed out that the Cuban dictatorship’s embassy in Argentina has engaged with local opposition figures critical of President Javier Milei’s administration. Therefore, a gesture by Argentina’s mission in Havana to recognize democratic leaders in Cuba—beginning with inviting some of them to the upcoming May 25 celebration—would be a principled act of reciprocity in how both countries engage with political opposition forces.
