US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that Poland has played a behind-the-scenes role in Cuba as he hailed a leading dissident from the communist-run island.
Poland invited Rubio as it honored Berta Soler, the leader of the Ladies in White protest movement, with an award named for Lech Walesa, the union leader who mobilized opposition to communism and was democratically elected as president in 1990 after the Moscow-backed government fell.
