Weekly Report - 26 July 2012 (WR-12-29)

As Cuba’s parliament gathered for the first of two biannual sessions to discuss economic reforms, the Communist party mouthpiece Granma published a short report of a car accident in eastern Cuba claiming the life of two Cuban citizens, one of whom was Oswaldo Payá. This was the government’s sole reference to the death of the political dissident who provided one of the sternest internal challenges faced by the Castro government since 1959 after he handed parliamentarians, accustomed to merely rubberstamping government proposals, with a petition called the Varela Project in 2002 calling for a referendum on one-party rule.

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