Oswaldo Paya, prominent Cuban dissident, killed in car accident in Cuba

[joshcryer]

5. It's almost always good for a group when a dissidant is taken out.

I can't see any downsides because it throws a dent into the democracy project in Cuba. All you have to now do is replace Paya with a far right winger who wants to do stupid shit (like repatriate old property owners, etc) and it marginalizes the movement.

As I said, I'll wait for the witness reports once they're out of Cuba. If the reports say that it was just an accident on bad roads, then I will believe them. But I bet you dollars to donuts that if the reports say that they were driven off the road, chased, etc, you will say that they're right wing witnesses and can't be trusted.

BTW, if you really think the Varela Project went no where you should be reminded that one of its major goals was privatization. Cuba followed suit less than a decade later.