Event Recap: NED 2025 Democracy Service Medal Awarded to Oswaldo Payá
On July 22, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) posthumously awarded its highest honor, the Democracy Service Medal, to Oswaldo Payá, one of Cuba’s most principled advocates of peaceful democratic change. Held in the Cannon House Office Building and hosted by NED’s Board of Directors, the ceremony commemorated the 13th anniversary of Payá’s murder by the Cuban regime and celebrated the…