A young Cuban woman waves her country's flag during a Silvio Rodriguez concert in Havana. Photograph: Ramon Espinosa/AP Parading silently along Havana’s Fifth Avenue, wearing white and carrying pink flowers, Cuba’s most famous protest movement – the Damas de Blanco – registered their opposition today to the human rights abuses of the Castro government, as they have done almost every Sunday for the past 10 years. Unusually, however, in the wake of last week’s resumption of diplomatic relations with the US, there was no sign of the police and state security officers who have frequently detained and beaten their members in an attempt to stifle dissent. As one of the first tests of the new...
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