Police break up opposition demonstration in Cuba

Police broke up a weekly march by wives and mothers of imprisoned Cuban opposition leaders, forcing them onto a bus and driving them home as a pro-government crowd screamed insults.

Uniformed police and plainclothes security agents blocked a pavement along Havana’s Fifth Avenue, stopping five members of the Damas de Blanco, or Ladies in White, from following their traditional march route, said Bertha Soler, one of the group’s leaders.