Cuban dissident Laura Pollan, who founded the opposition group Ladies in White and for nearly a decade staged weekly protest marches with other wives of political prisoners to press for their release, died Friday, fellow dissidents said. She was 63.
Elizardo Sanchez, head of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, said he spoke by phone with Pollan's family and they confirmed her death.
"For now what we know is that she had a (cardiorespiratory) attack and she didn't come out of it," Sanchez said.
Born Feb. 13, 1948 in the eastern city of Manzanillo, Pollan was a small, round woman with conspicuous green eyes and dyed-blond hair. She spoke in a soft voice that could suddenly turn cutting when she was animated.
A literature teacher until she retired in 2004 and dedicated herself full-time to the struggle on behalf of her husband, Pollan said teaching was what she loved most.
"If I were born again and could do it all over, I would still be a teacher," she once said, according to an undated biography posted on her website.
Ladies in White member Bertha Soler said Pollan died in the evening.
Pollan had the one daughter from a previous marriage.
Elizardo Sanchez, head of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, said he spoke by phone with Pollan's family and they confirmed her death.
"For now what we know is that she had a (cardiorespiratory) attack and she didn't come out of it," Sanchez said.
Born Feb. 13, 1948 in the eastern city of Manzanillo, Pollan was a small, round woman with conspicuous green eyes and dyed-blond hair. She spoke in a soft voice that could suddenly turn cutting when she was animated.
A literature teacher until she retired in 2004 and dedicated herself full-time to the struggle on behalf of her husband, Pollan said teaching was what she loved most.
"If I were born again and could do it all over, I would still be a teacher," she once said, according to an undated biography posted on her website.
Ladies in White member Bertha Soler said Pollan died in the evening.
Pollan had the one daughter from a previous marriage.
Cuban dissident Laura Pollan, who founded the opposition group Ladies in White and for nearly a decade staged weekly protest marches with other wives of political prisoners to press for their release, died Friday, fellow dissidents said. She was 63.
Elizardo Sanchez, head of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, said he spoke by phone with Pollan's family and they confirmed her death.
"For now what we know is that she had a (cardiorespiratory) attack and she didn't come out of it," Sanchez said.
Born Feb. 13, 1948 in the eastern city of Manzanillo, Pollan was a small, round woman with conspicuous green eyes and dyed-blond hair. She spoke in a soft voice that could suddenly turn cutting when she was animated.
A literature teacher until she retired in 2004 and dedicated herself full-time to the struggle on behalf of her husband, Pollan said teaching was what she loved most.
"If I were born again and could do it all over, I would still be a teacher," she once said, according to an undated biography posted on her website.
Ladies in White member Bertha Soler said Pollan died in the evening.
Pollan had the one daughter from a previous marriage.
Elizardo Sanchez, head of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, said he spoke by phone with Pollan's family and they confirmed her death.
"For now what we know is that she had a (cardiorespiratory) attack and she didn't come out of it," Sanchez said.
Born Feb. 13, 1948 in the eastern city of Manzanillo, Pollan was a small, round woman with conspicuous green eyes and dyed-blond hair. She spoke in a soft voice that could suddenly turn cutting when she was animated.
A literature teacher until she retired in 2004 and dedicated herself full-time to the struggle on behalf of her husband, Pollan said teaching was what she loved most.
"If I were born again and could do it all over, I would still be a teacher," she once said, according to an undated biography posted on her website.
Ladies in White member Bertha Soler said Pollan died in the evening.
Pollan had the one daughter from a previous marriage.
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