Remembering Nadia Diuk

Eulogy Delivered by NED President Carl Gershman on January 31, 2019 In the days since Nadia passed, the NED has received an incredible outpouring of messages of condolence and remembering.  I’m sure that what we received was but a small part of all the online posts, emails,...

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Commemorating the 27th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre

Carl Gershman, President of NED, spoke at "Exploring the contested history of the Tiananmen Massacre," an event hosted by Initiatives for China and Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation at...

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The New Fight: Cuba and the Movement for Democracy

Carl Gershman's article as published in the World Affairs Journal on February 10, 2016.When President Obama and Raúl Castro announced, in December 2014, their intention to normalize relations between the United States and...

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Directorio Democratico Cubano Marks 25th Anniversary

I am humbled to speak about the future of democracy in Cuba in the presence of such great heroes of the freedom struggle in Cuba as Antunez, Berta Soler, Antonio Rodiles, Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva, and Rolando Rodriguez Lobaina. It’s also...

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