• The Varela Project (Spanish: Proyecto Varela) is a project that was started in 1998 by Oswaldo Payá of the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) and named...
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  • international attention for organizing a petition drive known as the Varela Project, in which 25,000 signatories petitioned the Cuban government to guarantee...
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  • Varela is a Spanish and Portuguese surname of Galician origin. It may also refer to: 19023 Varela, an asteroid Florencio Varela, a city in Buenos Aires...
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    first film as a director was the short "Dissident: Oswaldo Paya and The Varela Project," a short film financed by the National Democratic Institute about the...
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  • international organization promoting Christian democracy. Cuba portal Varela Project Christian democracy "The Christian Liberation Movement: The members...
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    are eligible to vote. In 2002 supporters of a movement known as the Varela Project submitted a citizen proposal of law with 11,000 signatures calling for...
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    José Daniel Ferrer (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from April 2025)
    2003, he was the oriental leader for collecting signatures among the Varela Project, in which 25,000 signatories petitioned the Cuban government to guarantee...
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    Louis Matias Karl Padin Varela (born 23 June 1980) is a Swedish actor. Varela was born and grew up in Södermalm on the south side of Stockholm. Both of...
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    Cuba-United States relations Varela Project "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR JAMES C. CASON"...
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    activist which had been arrested in 2003 for his participation in the Varela Project. In 2019, he called for a proof-of-life on Ferrer; later that year,...
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    are eligible to vote. In 2002 supporters of a movement known as the Varela Project submitted a citizen proposal of law with 11,000 signatures calling for...
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    Fidel Castro (category Pages using Sister project links with hidden wikidata)
    liberties in the country and urged the government to pay attention to the Varela Project of Oswaldo Payá. Economic problems remained in Cuba, and in 2004, Castro...
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  • footballer Blas Giraldo Reyes Rodríguez, Cuban librarian and a member of Varela project Carla Giraldo (born 1986), a Colombian actress, model and singer Carmiña...
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    Félix Varela y Morales (November 20, 1788 – February 18, 1853) was a Cuban Catholic priest and independence leader who is regarded as a notable figure...
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    Juan Carlos Varela Rodríguez (Spanish pronunciation: [xwaŋ ˈkaɾlos βaˈɾela roˈðɾiɣes]; born 13 December 1961) is a Panamanian businessman and former politician...
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    Cuban dissident. He participated in the gathering of signatures for the Varela project and was a member of the Christian Liberation Movement. Antonio Díaz...
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    Interests Section. Some of these were participants in the Varela Project, though the leader of that project, Oswaldo Payá, was careful to stress his distance...
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    State on the Situation in Cuba" April 11, 1898". The American Presidency Project. University of California - Santa Barbara. Peters,Gerhard; Woolley, John...
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    that was founded by Oswaldo Payá. They are notable for starting the Varela Project.[citation needed] Cuban Democratic Directorate, a non-governmental organization...
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    August 15, 2007. Cuba: Newly formed dissident coalition competes with Varela Project supporters for control of internal opposition, "NotiCen: Central American...
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    plebiscite in Cuba, was viewed as a sort of continuation of her father's Varela Project, which, despite collecting the more than 10,000 signatures required...
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  • dissident. He was an active member of the Christian Liberation Movement, Varela Project, and Director of the Independent Bartolomé Massó Library. He was one...
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  • President Václav Havel; former United States President Bill Clinton; Varela Project leader Oswaldo Payá of Cuba; and US Ambassador to the United Nations...
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    Omega 7 Radio Free Dixie Radio y Televisión Martí US-Cuba Democracy PAC Varela Project Venceremos Brigade ZunZuneo Cuban football players who defected to the...
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    group of Cuban activists collected thousands of signatures for the Varela Project, a petition requesting a referendum on the island's political process...
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  • (born 1 September 1950, Morón, Cuba) is an economist, librarian, and Varela project coordinator. He published reports about problems of the transport facilities...
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    Blake Jenner (category The Glee Project winners)
    in music and film and began playing drums at age nine. He attended Felix Varela High School, where he joined the school's drama society Troupe 6162 and...
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  • and others from the Christian Liberation Movement, operating as the Varela Project, to have a national plebiscite using provisions in the Constitution...
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  • was a representative of Movimiento 24 de Febrero and was involved in Varela project. He was a librarian at General Juan Bruno Zayas Library. He was sentenced...
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  • Independientes and directed a local independent library belonging to Varela project. María Salazar (March 3, 2008). "The Imprisoned". The Committee to Protect...
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