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Laura Pollan Toledo, Who Rallied Wives of Jailed Cuban Dissidents, Dies at 63

October 15, 2011

MEXICO CITY - Laura Pollan Toledo, a former high school Spanish teacher who became one of Cuba's most public dissidents as she led other wives of political prisoners in protest every Sunday, died in a Havana hospital on Friday, her family and other dissidents said.
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