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Finally, on Oct. 19 of this year, the State Department issued Díaz and two other Cuban scholars who had been invited to Harvard—Raúl D. Rodr??guez and Jorge L. Maestre Mesa—the three-month visas that they had applied for in April and November...
...weren’t expecting to get these visas,” said Rodr??guez. “I needed to modify my work [in Cuba] because I was planning to be here two and a half years before...
Visiting researchers Rodr??guez, Maestre Mesa and Díaz were invited to Harvard through the Rockefeller Center’s Cuban Visiting Scholar Program, which was started 10 years ago in the hopes of increasing communication and improving relations between Cuba and the United States...
...Mariano Rajoy looked certain to coast to victory. The handpicked successor of outgoing Prime Minister José María Aznar, Rajoy ran on a strong antiterrorism platform; but after the recent bombings in Madrid, fear and suspicion gripped the country and Spaniards swept Socialist leader José Luis Rodr??guez Zapatero into victory. If we didn’t know it before, this weekend’s election in Spain provided a valuable, if horrifying, lesson: Terrorism works. Just ask Rajoy...
...Madrid bombings in retaliation for Spain’s involvement in the Iraqi invasion and ongoing occupation. Before the attacks, Prime Minister Azanar’s Popular party enjoyed a comfortable lead in the polls. On Sunday they were ousted by incoming Prime Minister José Luis Rodr??guez Zapatero and his Socialist party. Conservative pundits, like New York Times columnist David Brooks, have been quick to denounce the Spaniards for appeasing Al Qaeda. Their arguments are not without merit, but they are overly crude and mistakenly conflate the fight against Islamic terrorism with the war against Iraq...