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HAVANA — Cuba allowed a small group of dissidents to hold a protest march Sunday after the country’s top Roman Catholic clergyman negotiated with authorities, ending three weeks of confrontations.
The government’s decision was a victory for the Damas de Blanco — or Ladies in White — who had marched peacefully down Havana’s Quinta Avenida boulevard for seven years before the government suddenly forbade the protests April 11.
The group consists of the wives and mothers of about 75 dissidents jailed in a 2003 crackdown, as well as supporters.
