Ladies in White

Winds of change?

November 2, 2011

Daniel Calingaert, Vice President for Policy and External Relations at Freedom House, discusses FH’s recent survey conducted in Cuba in a blog post at Freedom at Issue: The government shows no intention of opening up the political system. At the Communist Party congress in April, when Castro welcomed a “new generation” of leaders, they were led by revolution-era [...]

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Cuba this week

October 16, 2011

Laura Pollan, the heroic founder and leader of the Ladies in White, died Friday night of cardiorespiratory failure. [Washington Post] The United States offered to let a convicted Cuban spy return home in exchange for the release of an imprisoned American, but Cuba rebuffed the offer. [AP] A Cuban flag flies over a Venezuelan Army [...]

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Goons vs. ladies

August 28, 2011

Mary Anastasia O’Grady in tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal on the Cuban government’s attacks on peaceful women dissidents (Ladies in White): This is not without risk to the regime, should the international community decide to pay attention and apply pressure on the white-elite regime the way it did in opposition to apartheid in South Africa. But [...]

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Video of the Day

September 2, 2010

“Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict“ is an article published in the periodical International Security I referenced in a July 2008 post, which  included the Ladies in White as an example of nonviolent civil resistance, that is a worthwhile read as it addresses the “successful employment of nonviolent methods by organized civilian populations including [...]

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Notable and Quotable

August 30, 2010

Preparations for full-scale oil exploration are gaining momentum in Cuba’s Gulf of Mexico waters just 50 miles from the US. [Financial Times] “I was at death’s door, but I came back.”  [Fidel Castro's interview in La Jornada] Eight more arrested according to the Ladies in White.  Three human rights activists in Havana and five members [...]

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Tactics of survival

July 21, 2010

Alvaro Vargas Llosa on the Castro brothers as masterful tacticians: Other releases have lifted people’s hopes in the past. In 1969-70, about 1,300 prisoners were deported. In 1979, after a controversial negotiation with some exiles, 3,600 opponents were set free – and expelled. In 1998, Pope John Paul II’s visit was followed by the release of [...]

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