Posted on 10/16/2011 8:25:00 PM PDT by Rabin
The pugnacious Ms Pollan was one of Cuba's leading opposition voices and deeply involved in promoting change on the Communist island. in a March 2003, after 75 dissidents, including Laura's husband were imprisoned crackdown known as Havana's Black Spring, the schoolteacher organized the Ladies in White... Along with family members of other prisoners dressed in white and each carrying a single white flower, they walked silently along a main Havana avenue after services at the Santa Rita Catholic Church… Public protests were unheard of at the time and still rare today. The government tried to stop them by sending out harassing mobs in what are known in Cuba as "acts of repudiation, " but allowed them to continue after intercession by the church.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Rab.
Btt
I wonder if, for whatever condition such a young lady had, Senora Pollan was given access to that vaunted Cuban health care?
RIP.
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