HAVANA (AP) ? Cuba has charged a Spanish citizen with the equivalent of vehicular manslaughter in a car accident that killed prominent dissident Oswaldo Paya and another government opponent, official media said Tuesday. Angel Carromero, who was behind the wheel of the car that was carrying Paya when it crashed July 22, "has been accused of the charge of homicide while driving a vehicle on public roads," Communist Party newspaper Granma said. Granma said Carromero and Swedish citizen Jens Aron Modig, who was also riding in the car when it crashed, entered the country July 19 on tourist visas and, "in violation of their migratory status, got involved in clearly political activities contrary to the constitutional order." The editorial ticked off a list of purported attempts to stir unrest and foment dissent through social media and cell phones, and longtime complaints about U.S. contacts with the dissidents and USAID democracy-building programs. Since 2009 Cuba has held American citizen and USAID subcontractor Alan Gross, sentenced to 15 years in prison under a statute governing crimes against the state, after he was discovered importing communications equipment onto the island and setting up satellite Internet networks.
Source: http://www.chron.com/news/article/Cuba-charges-Spaniard-in-dissident-Paya-s-death-3749631.php
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