This is one incredible Cuban woman of valor, what a great patriot! She and her husband were in Los Angeles over the weekend, hosted by the Junta Patriotica Cubana. In spite of all she and her family has suffered and endured her strength of character and sprit remain intact. Zapata Vive!

Videos from the luncheon:

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Por la libertad de Cuba, Zapata Vive y el Asesinato de Hermanos al Rescate

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Friends from the Los Angeles based Cuban run periodico, 20 de Mayo, serving the local community since 1969, created the wonderful collage of photos shown above.   The link to this weeks fine edition is here.
If you look close you´ll see yours [...]

Via Pinceladas de Cuba, with English subtitles a landmark documentary which screened this past summer in Miami on the life and activism of Orlando Zapata.  It's the first such project from the Institute  (Facebook),   that includes coordination with an opposition organization in Cuba, Plantados hasta la Libertad en Cuba.

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That is one of the posters held high in the heart of Hollywood this afternoon, as we stood in solidarity with Reina Luisa Tamayo, the mother of murdered Cuban political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo. (More photos here)
Ours was one among a series of international events.  There were marches/demonstations in Miami, New Jersey, Raleigh, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Santiago de [...]

Dear Sir or Madam:
We write to you worried about the police and paramilitary harassment denounced from Banes, a small town in the Cuban province of Holguín, by Reina Luisa Tamayo. She is the mother of Orlando Zapata Tamayo the prisoner of conscience who died on 23 February after a prolonged hunger strike that up to [...]

Orlando Zapata Tamayo,  a valiant defender of the liberty of the Cuban people,  was murdered by the Castro regime that refused to guarantee respect for his basic rights. He was an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience, and Zapata Tamayo engaged in a hunger strike of over 80 days to demand such a guarantee and to [...]