SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Oswaldo Payá

1952 - 2012

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Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas (29 February 1952 – 22 July 2012) was a Cuban political activist. A devout Catholic, he founded the Christian Liberation Movement in 1987 to oppose the one-party rule of the Cuban Communist Party. He attracted international attention for organizing a petition drive known as the Varela Project, in which 25,000 signatories petitioned the Cuban government to guarantee freedom of speech and freedom of assembly as well as to institute a multi-party democracy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oswaldo Payá has received more than 122,233 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Oswaldo Payá is the 546th most popular social activist (down from 493rd in 2019), the 127th most popular biography from Cuba (down from 126th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Cuban Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Oswaldo Payá ranks 546 out of 840Before him are Szeto Wah, Abraham Flexner, Aminatou Haidar, Karen Silkwood, Joseph Weydemeyer, and Meena Keshwar Kamal. After him are Henry Spira, Stephen Mallory, Roger Stone, Akira Amano, Octavia Hill, and Veerappan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Oswaldo Payá ranks 451Before him are Santiago Santamaría, Daryl Stuermer, Barbara Hendricks, Amy Tan, Jigme Thinley, and Tovah Feldshuh. After him are Ellen Streidt, Rhys Chatham, Tim Powers, Roger Stone, Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, and Cleopas Dlamini. Among people deceased in 2012, Oswaldo Payá ranks 350Before him are George Kerr, Jaime Graça, Valeri Vasiliev, Mehdi Hassan, J. Bernlef, and Patrick Moore. After him are Clive Dunn, William Grut, Oscar Rossi, Sergey Nikolsky, András Szente, and Lyudmila Kasatkina.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Oswaldo Payá ranks 127 out of 300Before him are Mijaín López (1982), Carlos Mendieta (1873), José Carlos Somoza (1959), Addys Mercedes (1985), Orlando Martínez (1944), and Carlos Hevia (1900). After him are Carmen Herrera (1915), Millard Mitchell (1903), Jon Secada (1961), Ana Fidelia Quirot (1963), José Antonio Rodríguez (1915), and Cachao (1918).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Cuba

Among social activists born in Cuba, Oswaldo Payá ranks 4Before him are Camilo Cienfuegos (1932), Huber Matos (1918), and Frank País (1934). After him are Yoani Sánchez (1975).