LatinNews Daily Report - 20 March 2012

Cuba | Damas released. The dissident group Damas de Blanco have been told by security authorities that they can no longer stage their weekly peaceful marches. According to Berta Soler, the head of the Damas, she was told that now that their relatives are out of prison, their “humanitarian” permit to march has been withdrawn. Yesterday (19 March), the Polish solidarity leader and former president Lech Walesa (1990-1995) urged Pope Benedict XVI, due in Cuba on 26 March, to take up the defence of “those Cubans who are demanding freedom at the risk of persecution and humiliation”, reminding him that when the Polish native John Paul II visited his home country in 1979 it “awakened us”. John Paul II was the last pope to visit Cuba, in January 1998.

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