To promote a peaceful transition to a Cuba that respects human rights
and political and economic freedoms
Today, people across the world are giving to help make a difference. #GivingTuesday began in 2012 as a simple idea, to dedicate one day of the year to live more generously. It sparked a global movement that unites people by the millions with the principle of radical generosity, “the idea that the suffering of others should be as intolerable to us as our own suffering.”
There are currently over 1,140 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience jailed in Cuba.
The Center for a Free Cuba (CFC) was founded in 1997 to reject the normalization of the suffering of Cubans in the island by a decades old dictatorship by supporting the inalienable right of Cubans to their own rights, urging persons of goodwill to amplify the voices of the Cuban people, and mobilizing democracies around the world to institute policies that encourage genuine change in Cuba.
Thanks to the support of people like you it was possible for CFC in 2024 to send medicines to families of jailed dissidents; provide needed smartphones, and laptops; and provide internet access to keep uncensored information flowing in and out of the island.
A friend of the Center has pledged a matching gift challenge of up to $10,000. Any donation received by December 31, 2024, will be matched dollar for dollar. That means that your $100 contribution will be worth $200, and a $1,000 contribution will be matched for a contribution of $2000. The more you can give, the more your gift will benefit CFC.
In just the last few months, the CFC provided resources for an activist to address the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Cuba's systematic abuses during the interactive discussion on the state of human rights in Cuba. On the same day in a press conference organized by the Center held at Florida International University, Cuban victims of repression, both in person, and from the island, provided testimony, and reports submitted for Cuba's Universal Periodic Review were shared together with recommendations that the Cuban dictatorship be subjected to an international boycott, and suspended from the UN Human Rights Council.
Cuba was taken off the list of countries not cooperating in the fight against terrorism by the Biden State Department. A letter from an American victim of Cuban-sponsored terrorism to the State Department was made public and distributed by the Center.
CFC's executive director authored the OpEd “History of Cuban spying and the harm done to the U.S.” in the Miami Herald, raising awareness on the clear and present danger Cuba poses to the United States.
The Center published a statement on the situation in Venezuela that was shared with policy makers, and international human rights organizations. It expressed concern that Havana is seeking to preserve Maduro’s rule by backing his efforts to steal the recent election, and crack down on the pro-democracy movement. OpEd's were also published in The Washington Times, and the Miami Herald calling out Havana's criminal meddling in Venezuela's internal affairs.
These are just a handful of recent instances of our ongoing efforts to document events in Cuba and take steps to hold the dictatorship accountable.
On this #GivingTuesday, we hope you will support the Center's ongoing mission and goal of facilitating a nonviolent transition to a Cuba that respects human rights and political and economic freedoms.
You can also support the Center for a Free Cuba by sharing this email with your friends and asking them to consider donating to the CFC today, on Giving Tuesday.
Please donate via Paypal on our website, or send a check in the name of the Center for a Free Cuba to: Center for a Free Cuba at 417 West Broad St., Suite 204 Falls Church, VA 22046.
Thank you for your generosity and support.
John Suarez
Executive Director
Center for a Free Cuba
417 West Broad St. Suite 204
Falls Church, VA 22046
http://www.cubacenter.org/
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