 |
NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO FREE THE CUBAN FIVE Comité Nacional por la Libertad de los Cinco Cubanos |
 |
|
|
Aug. 18, 2011
Evenson who was president of the NLG from 1988 to 1991 was one of the foremost authorities on the legal system and institutions of Cuba. US Attorney Michael Krinsky said that Debra was an important figure to the National Lawyers Guild´s legal defense of Cuban sovereignty. According to the NLG´s press release “Evenson was part of the generation of young lawyers and law students that revived the institution in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, combining political passion to combat injustice and exploitation with outstanding legal skills.” Debra Evenson was co founder and executive director of the Center for Inter-American Legal Education, a US non-profit foundation dedicated to educational exchanges between US lawyers and legal scholars with their counterparts in Latin America. She taught a course on the Cuban legal system at Rutgers University Law School-Camden for the last three years. She was also Associate Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law from 1980 to 1992 where she taught Intellectual Property and Comparative International Law. Debra Evenson was a strong collaborator with the Cuban Jurists Association (UNJC) and helped prepare exchanges between US and Cuban attorneys. The Cuban people will miss their beloved friend who dedicated her life to social justice and the island’s right to self determination, sovereignty and independence. The National Lawyers Guild, founded in 1937, is the oldest and largest public interest/human rights bar organization in the United States. Its headquarters are in New York and it has chapters in every state. |
18 de agosto de 2011 La Habana, 18 ago (PL) La abogada y profesora Debra Evenson, experta en asuntos relacionados con el sistema legal cubano, murió en Nueva York, víctima de un cáncer, informó hoy el sitio digital Cubadebate. Evenson escribió decenas de artículos sobre el derecho cubano y las instituciones de este país, que se convirtieron en referencia obligada para estudiar las relaciones Cuba-Estados Unidos. Graduada de la Facultad de Derecho de Rutgers, fue presidente del National Lawyers Guild de 1988 a 1991, importante gremio de abogados de Estados Unidos que apoya la libertad de cinco antiterroristas de la isla presos en esa nación norteña desde 1998. Gerardo Hernández, René González, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero y Fernando González cumplen condenas que llegan hasta doble cadena perpetua más 15 años de cárcel por informar sobre planes criminales de grupos anticubanos asentados en el estado norteamericano de la Florida. La abogada trabajaba para el bufete Rabinowitz, Boudin, Stanar, Krinsky y Lieberman en New York y representó a Cuba en algunos de los más importantes casos legales del archipiélago frente a las cortes norteamericanas. Sobre el proceso legal en Estados Unidos contra Luis Posada Carriles, Evenson había afirmado: "Es una vergüenza la liberación del terrorista Luis Posada Carriles, y lo hicieron no por falta de cargos sino por incompetencia y cobardía de los letrados". Fundó también el Center for Inter-American Legal Education, dedicado al intercambio entre abogados estadounidenses y sus colegas latinoamericanos. "Nuestra pérdida es enorme, pero nos conforta saber que preparó a muchas personas para que continúen con su misión," dijo David Gespass, el presidente del National Lawyers Guild. |
|
HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 18 (acn) Debra Evenson, former President of the National Lawyers Guild and long-time friend of Cuba, passed away on Wednesday in Chicago, United States, surrounded by friends and family.