Marta Beatriz Roque Cabello | |
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Born | 16 May 1945 |
Occupation | economist |
Organization | Assembly to Promote Civil Society in Cuba |
Known for | dissident politics, imprisonment |
Awards | Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award (2002) |
Marta Beatriz Roque Cabello (born 16 May 1945) is a Cuban political dissident. She is an economist by training and the founder and director of the Cuban Institute of Independent Economists. Agence France-Presse described her in 2007 as Cuba's "leading woman dissident".[1]