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  • WSJ: Castro's Jailed Librarian -- Why Fidel went after a Christmas display.

    12/23/2004 6:03:43 AM PST · by OESY · 8 replies · 405+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | December 23, 2004 | Editorial
    [What] prompted Fidel Castro to order the Christmas decorations dismantled... was the light display forming the number 75. That's how many political dissidents Castro rounded up in March 2003 and threw into Cuban jails. At their trials, these librarians, journalists and peaceful political activists received sentences of up to 28 years. Now a loosely connected international movement of librarians is refusing to forget their Cuban colleagues. One inspiring example comes from the town of Vermillion, South Dakota, whose public library is sponsoring the independent -- that is, not government-run -- Dulce Maria Loynaz Library in Havana. The Loynaz Library was...