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Three Harvard faculty members staged an academic protest over the weekend, reprimanding the State Department for denying visas to a group of Cuban scholars scheduled to attend a Latin American studies conference in Las Vegas...
...lieu of the Cuban scholars, 65 empty chairs adorned a conference room on Friday night in a forum titled “Academic Freedom and Scholarly Exchange with Cuba” to protest the decision...
...Cuban researchers, writers and editors were slated to discuss The Cuban Economy at the Start of the 21st Century, a new book on the Cuban economy that will be published by the Rockefeller Center in November. But the forum was abruptly canceled after a last-minute decision by the State Department to deny visas to all 65 of the Cubans...
...It’s the State Department’s view...that Cuban officials and the Cuban regime needs to feel the pressure of our disdain for that regime,” Boucher said at the press conference. “We just felt it wasn’t appropriate for this many Cuban government officials, ‘academics,’ to come to a conference to spout party line...
Also in attendance was Steven C. Schwadron, chief of staff to Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., who is co-chairman of a congressional committee that is examining ways to reduce or eliminate the Cuban embargo...