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Weekly Report - 20 October 2011 (WR-11-42)
CUBA: Pollán and the slow march of reform
The Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC) will discuss the political future of the party and the country at a national conference on 28 January 2012. Reform is on the cards - but it is not the kind of meaningful reform envisioned by the island’s leading dissidents, one of whose number, Laura Pollán, died this week. Pollán turned the Damas de Blanco (ladies in white), relatives of 75 dissidents sentenced to long prison spells in 2003, into the most visible Cuban protest group on the international stage. The government struggled to silence their protest and eventually succumbed to the pressure they exerted by releasing the dissidents from jail earlier this year. Pollán’s success revitalised the moribund opposition, which presented a blueprint for Cuba’s democratic transition in July [WR-11-19].
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