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Weekly Report - 22 September 2011 (WR-11-38)
CUBA: The históricos vs. the Damas
It’s always unwise to underestimate a matriarch, but it’s very unlikely that the regime led by Fidel and Raúl Castro ever envisaged that Cuba’s gently named ‘Ladies in White’ (Damas de Blanco) would become so influential. This week, amid continuing reports of heavy police crackdowns on dissidents, Laura Pollán, the group’s official spokeswoman, announced a broad new national mission “in defence of human rights, freedom and democracy in Cuba” and warned that the damas would never capitulate in the face of repression.
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