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Summer quiet has overtaken most elementary school libraries in the Miami-Dade County, Fla., district, but the break in the academic calendar has failed to hush a storm over a book series that ...
Book subtitle -- The subtitle of Ann Louise Bardach’s book “Cuba Confidential” was wrong in the Oct. 27 issue of Book Review. ... but in Cuba the Pioneer uniform is forced upon all children.
Frequently accused by Cuban government officials of supporting dissidents and plotting to overthrow the regime, the U.S. Agency for International Development recently took what seems an ...
The book, by Alta Schreier, targets students ages 5 to 7 and contains images of smiling children wearing uniforms of Cuba’s communist youth group and a carnival celebrating the 1959 Cuban ...
Civil-liberties lawyers Wednesday defended a book about Cuba that omits references to Fidel Castro’s communist government, as a judge asked them to compare the work to a hypothetical book about ...
Chávez's book is filled with stories of both heartbreak and triumph. As any honest book about Cuba must, it includes stories of the most reactionary and inexplicable repression, such as Havana ...
The Spanish-language book, "Vamos a Cuba" or "A Visit to Cuba" in English by Alta Schreier, contains images of smiling children wearing uniforms of Cuba's communist youth group and a carnival ...
ATLANTA — Miami school officials can remove from library shelves a book about Cuba that depicts smiling children in communist uniforms but avoids mention of problems in the country, a federal ...
MIAMI -- Efforts by the Miami-Dade County School Board to ban a book on Cuba from school libraries has opened the door to attacks on other works and could lead to a broader purge of materials ...
MIAMI -- Civil liberties lawyers Wednesday defended a book about Cuba that omits references to Fidel Castro's communist government, as a judge asked them to compare the work to a hypothetical book ...