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Organizaciones financiadas por la NED contra Cuba

En 1999 la NED vuelve asignar recursos a Encuentro. La   página: www.ned.org/publications/99annual/52-57.pdf, declara:
 

La página web de la NED, www.ned.org/grants/grants.html,  registra periódicamente los destinatarios de los fondos de la NED, cuya inclusión depende de los intereses de esta organización en cada momento. Actualmente refleja los siguientes destinatarios con sus asignaciones:

• Black Cuban Forum
40 000 USD

To assist black Cubans to organize and promote a peaceful transition to democracy. The Black Cuban Forum will organize a dialogue between black Cubans in exile and in Cuba and help them develop an agenda and platform for political change.

• Center for a Free Cuba
17 000 USD

To provide emergency humanitarian assistance to former and current political prisoners and their families as well as families of the pro-democracy movement activists facing repression in Cuba.

• Committee for the Support of Independent Farmers’Cooperatives in Cuba
52 000 USD

To provide technical, organizational and material assistance to the independent cooperative movement in Cuba. The Committee will collect and send information on agricultural cooperatives to Cuba and link independent Cuban cooperatives with cooperatives in Latin America and Europe.

• Cuban Committee for Human Rights (CCHR)
70 000 USD

To support the operating costs and program activities of CCHR’s Miami office. Activities include monitoring and investigating human rights abuses in Cuba, publishing and disseminating human rights publications in Cuba and internationally, and providing humanitarian assistance to political dissidents and prisoners of conscience in Cuba.

• CubaNet
64 000 USD

To provide humanitarian and material assistance to Cuban independent journalists on the island. CubaNet will continue to support independent journalists that contribute regularly to its Web site, www.cubanet.org.

• Disidente Universal de Puerto Rico
45 000 USD

To publish the monthly journal El Disidente, which provides information for activists in Cuba, dissidents in exile and international news organizations.

• Federación Sindical de Plantas Eléctricas, Gas y Agua en el Exilio
25 000 USD

To support the independent labor movement in Cuba. The Miami-based Federación will work with independent labor organizations to educate Cuban workers on their international labor rights.

• Foundation for Defense of Human Rights
27 810 USD

To cover partially the expenses of holding an exhibition of Polish poster art in Cuba to demonstrate the struggle for human rights and political freedom in Poland. The exhibition will be held in Havana, Camagüey, Pinar del Rio and Santiago de Cuba.

• Information Bureau of the Human Rights Movement in Cuba
65 000 USD
1999 Reprogramming

To gather information from groups in and outside Cuba on human right conditions and the activities of dissident groups. The information will be shared with different Cuban groups and a network of international human rights organizations and journalists.

• International Republican Institute
348 007 USD

To promote a peaceful and democratic transition in Cuba. In cooperation with Cuban pro-freedom activists, IRI and its partner organization, Miami-based Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Directorate (Directorio), will support education and dissemination of pro-democracy materials to Cuban activists.

• National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
60 001 USD

To enrich dialogue in and outside of Cuba on the democratic role of political parties and the military in political transitions and democratic consolidation in other countries.

• Revista Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana
83 000 USD

To promote a dialogue among writers, artists, and academics in Cuba and in the diaspora on political change and the future of Cuba. Encuentro is a quarterly journal devoted to a broad discussion of issues in the humanities, the arts, and the social sciences and is distributed widely in Cuba.