Cuban dissident Regis Iglesias Ramirez talks about those who inspired him.
Check out the interviews that The Freedom Collection has gathered of the brave dissidents and political activists who are a source of inspiration.
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Reagan established full American diplomatic relations with the Holy See, by dispatching America’s first full ambassador to the Vatican. Together they coordinated financial and technological aid distribution through various Western unions and Sandinavian shipping agencies. With his references to the “Evil Empire” he sought to inspire the dissidents, insisting on meeting with them in every communist capital he visited….
When, on 17 November that year, police attacked a demonstration of Prague students, the uproar showed the regime to be as shaky as its counterparts throughout east Europe. Havel hurried back from Hradecek for meetings that produced the opposition coalition Civic Forum, a responsible interlocutor for a by now terrified government. Most of the crowd at the first mammoth protest meeting in Wenceslas Square knew little or nothing about the slightly built man who addressed them hoarsely from a balcony, but within a month Havel had deftly negotiated the Communist surrender and become obvious candidate for president of the restored democratic republic of Czechoslovakia.