U.S. bars Nicaragua heroine as "terrorist"

about a week old, but new to me.

I feel so much safer with this middle-aged professor out of the country. Thank you Dr. Rice!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1430305,00.html

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".

The decision to bar Dora Maria Tellez, one of the best-known figures in recent Latin American history, who has frequently visited the US in the past, has been attacked by academics and writers.

It comes at a time when President George Bush has appointed as his new intelligence chief a man associated with the "dirty war" against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.

A spokeswoman for Harvard University said it was "very disappointed" that she would not be taking up her appointment.
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from entering Nicaragua. Just say no to any * officials who want to visit.

possibly Costa Rica, I'm not sure, but as I recall certain American actors in the Contra war are prohibited by that country's laws from going there, because of their actions in the war.

...a teaching position at Harvard? Just because John Negroponte, the Latin American death squad chief fears her?

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Last year Ms Tellez, now a historian, was appointed as the Robert F Kennedy visiting professor in Latin American studies in the divinity department at Harvard, a post which is shared with the Rockefeller Centre for Latin American Studies. She was due to start teaching students this spring.

The US state department has told her she is ineligible because of involvement in "terrorist acts". A spokesman for the department confirmed yesterday that she had been denied a visa under a section making those who had been involved in terrorist acts ineligible. He said he could not comment further on the reasons for the ban.

"I have no idea why they are refusing me a visa," said Ms Tellez from her home in Managua yesterday. "I have been in the US many times before - on holidays, at conferences, on official business."

A number of academics and writers are protesting against the ban. "It is absurd," said Gioconda Belli, the Nicaraguan writer who was also an active member of the Sandinistas and is now based in Los Angeles. "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."

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We have much more to fear for our countries security from the forces within the Bush government then we ever would from a visiting professor who could bring enlightment and truth.

And, we certainly can't risk that awful possibility.

He can be arrested on the grounds that he started the drug trade down there. One can only hope that Traitor will hopefully some day accidentally end up in Costa Rica.

I've always liked Costa Rica. I like Costa RIca even more now!