Sun-Sentinel.com has a Story on independent lending libraries, one of the fastest-growing sectors of Cuba\’s limited civil society.
They say Fidel Castro unwittingly inspired the independent library movement when he declared at a Havana book fair in February 1998 that there were no censored books in Cuba, only limited funds for public libraries.
\”The revolution has given us a high level of education, but it also censors a lot and determines what people read.\”
Gary Price also pointed to Private libraries turn page in Cuba over at The Chicago Tribune, a strangely similar story.
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