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...recent investigative piece in The New York Times, prison workers at Guantanamo Bay’s Camp X-ray described in detail how detainees were tortured in the Cuban detention center. One method involved prisoners being stripped to nothing but their underwear, tied to the floor and made to sit in a chair as interrogators subjected them to loud music, strobe lights and air conditioning turned on to maximum levels for up to 14 hours at a time...
...conference, a leading forum for discussion of Latin America and the Caribbean, is hosted every 18 months by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), and brings together 4000 participants from around the world. Cuban scholars have participated in the conference since 1979, and this is the first time since then that the entire delegation has been turned away. After months of open dialogue between the State Department and conference organizers and after an understanding that at least some of the scholars would be allowed to attend the conference, the decision for a blanket denial came less than a week before...
...real rationale is further exposed if one examines the State Department’s unfounded claim that, as Cuban government employees, none of the scholars had “distinguished him or herself for free thinking and for questioning anything the regime has said.” The facts disagree. Several of the scholars were invited to the LASA convention to present parts of a book they had co-written with two Harvard professors: John H. Coatsworth, director of Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and Jorge I. Domínguez, director of the Weatherhead...
...such balanced content will not be pleasing to the Cuban voters Bush so desperately inklings to in Florida. Fidel Castro and the Cuban government—the supposed targets of the State Department’s actions—will remain unscathed by the decision. Regardless of what one thinks about the longstanding U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, it is clear that the State Department’s censorship of viewpoints is damaging to Americans who are deprived of their first amendment right to the free exchange of information. As Coatsworth said, “The only people really disadvantaged...
...itself. No, instead, the only relevant end to the Bush administration is winning the election in Florida—even if it means stifling academic expression. As Domínguez succinctly put it: “The U.S. government has sent one clear message to the Cuban government in all of this: If you do not like what academics write, censor them...