MIAMI HERALD/By JUAN O. TAMAYO/
"Today, the Ladies in White have become icons of the Cuban dissident movement, condemned by the Raúl Castro government and little known in their country but praised around the world, defended by Cuba's often timid Catholic church and even nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize."
"The women met each other in Villa Marista, tenebrous headquarters of Cuba's political police, while visiting some of the 74 husbands, sons and fathers arrested in a 2003 crackdown on dissent.
``We didn't know each other because most of us were not dissidents, just wives, mothers, daughters,'' recalled Berta Soler. ``But we started to chat, and to organize, and we became the Ladies in White.''
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