[caption id="attachment_42461" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Oswaldo Payá's enduring legacy lives on through his...

About the Event On Tuesday, July 22 at 5:30 pm, the NED Board posthumously awarded the Democracy Service Medal to Oswaldo Payá. As the founder of the Christian Liberation Movement and the architect of the groundbreaking Varela Project, Payá...

[caption id="attachment_42394" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya greeting supporters...

  Ceremony on Capitol Hill honors Cuban dissident’s enduring legacy...

About the Event Give Me Liberty: The True Story of Oswaldo Payá and his Daring Quest for a Free Cuba, a new biography from Simon and Schuster,...

I’m very pleased that David Hoffman is part of this panel, since it was he who conducted the interview published in The Washington Post in March 2013 in which Angel Carromero said publicly...

Four Heroes and a Demagogue The Woodrow Wilson Center, December 5, 2016         Fidel Castro, who died on November 25, was a political tyrant who succeeded in convincing many people in the democratic world that he was actually...

Article by Carl Gershman in the Washington Post on March 17, 2016. President Obama’s forthcoming visit...

Thank you to the National Endowment for Democracy for inviting me. It’s an honor to be here with all of you who work so hard for the values we hold dear and to see the future of democracy in the faces of tonight’s honorees – those who are here to accept this award, and one courageous young man...

Thank you so much. I will be very brief. As I’m sure you’ve heard they’ve called votes, so we all have to run over there now. However, I do want to, on this the 30th anniversary of NED, thank NED and all of you for honoring these four very special individuals who are heroes to all of us who...