Las Damas de Blanco confronting repression in Cuba
On August 1st, in the small village of Banes in Cuba, a small group of the Ladies in White try to break through a police cordon to visit the cemetary where hunger striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo is buried.
These Ladies in White continue, among other things, to denounce the murder of Tamayo for resisting the government. The authorities starved him while in prison for not doing what he was told to do, or for not thinking how they wanted him to think.
When in a country village, common women folk are not even allowed to go to Church in a group by uniformed officers, it can assuredly signify the end of the regime — spiritually, morally and civically.
