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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Cuba: Scholars Denied U.S. Visas

Cuba: Scholars Denied U.S. Visas
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 19, 2012

The State Department this week gave Mariela Castro, President Raúl
Castro's daughter, a visa to attend an academic conference in San
Francisco, but on Friday it confirmed that it had also rejected the visa
applications of 11 of the more than 70 Cuban scholars who had applied to
attend the meeting of the Latin American Studies Association. The list
includes academics who are among the most interested in engaging with
the United States, and some who have pushed for greater political and
economic change in Cuba. Some have traveled to the United States before.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/world/americas/cuba-scholars-denied-us-visas.html

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