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Mar. 5th, 2005 01:49 am*shakes head*
The woman who epitomised the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution that overthrew the dictator Anastasio Somoza has been denied entry to the US to take up her post as a Harvard professor on the grounds that she had been involved in "terrorism".
Academics and writers have attacked the decision to bar Dora Maria Tellez, who has frequently visited the US.
The ruling emerged soon after President George Bush appointed John Negroponte - associated with the "dirty war" against Nicaragua's Sandinistas - as his intelligence chief. ...
Protesters include Gioconda Belli, a Los Angeles-based Nicaraguan writer who was also a Sandinista, who said: "It is absurd. Dora Maria is an outstanding woman who fought against a dictatorship. If fighting against tyranny is 'terrorism' how does the United States justify the invasion of Iraq? It is an insult."
The woman who epitomised the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution that overthrew the dictator Anastasio Somoza has been denied entry to the US to take up her post as a Harvard professor on the grounds that she had been involved in "terrorism".
Academics and writers have attacked the decision to bar Dora Maria Tellez, who has frequently visited the US.
The ruling emerged soon after President George Bush appointed John Negroponte - associated with the "dirty war" against Nicaragua's Sandinistas - as his intelligence chief. ...
Protesters include Gioconda Belli, a Los Angeles-based Nicaraguan writer who was also a Sandinista, who said: "It is absurd. Dora Maria is an outstanding woman who fought against a dictatorship. If fighting against tyranny is 'terrorism' how does the United States justify the invasion of Iraq? It is an insult."
