The Never-ending Fight Over Fidel

[emma_goldman]

U.S. News & World Report (http://www.usnews.com)

August 7, 2006

Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, but for thousands of Cuban exiles in Miami, the bitterness is still fresh - as a court battle made clear last week. A federal judge ordered school libraria to return Vamos a Cuba! to the shelves. A divided school board last month banned the book after some politicians and parents denounceds its sunny portrayal of life in Cuba as misleading propaganda, prompting a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union. Judge Alan Gold issued a preliminary injunction against the board,s aying it had violated the First Amendment, and ordered libraries to restock the book pending a full trial. School board member Frank Bolanos is urging an appeal of Gold's uling. And compalaints have been filed against another children's book, Cuban Kids, by an anti-Castro activist and his daughter.

[Karl Marx's Camel]

I think we had a discussion about this a while ago.

Silly, indeed. It does show the hypocricy.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

It was never about things like "freedom of speech".. it was always about the exploiting classes not being able to exploit anymore.

[Physco Bitch]

This sounds very stupid indeed, what happened to letting people make up their own minds? Fine some people may think the book is full of lies and romantic specticles, but surely people can state this at the time or at least have the opportuniy to make up their own minds- not the few making it up for them. But so is the world i suppose. :angry:

[Redfist]

The US should stay out of Cuba. Let the people of Cuba decide their future, not a bunch of old, bald right-wing politicians in Washington.

[emma_goldman]

Agreed. Agreed & agreed. :D