Radio Interview: Official Defends Jailing Librarians

The Friends of Cuban Libraries writes “On the “Democracy Now!” radio program Amy Goodman interviewed a Cuban official about the repression of the island’s independent library movement. Excerpt from the Democracy Now backgrounder: “Columnist Nat Hentoff among others has written extensively about this. Hentoff recently quoted author Ray Bradbury… [who] said he had a message for Cuba. He said “I plead with Castro and his government to immediately take their hands off the independent librarians and release all the librarians in prison….””