The American Library Association embraces Castro

Gary Deane spotted The American Library Association embraces Castro from over at The National Review.

The author, Duncan Currie, says the dispute at the annual conference in Toronto last month revealed a troubling obtuseness about the status of human rights in Cuba.

“Amidst this controversy, it’s easy to forget the jailed librarians themselves, the 14 remarkable individuals who now languish somewhere in Cuba’s dungeons. Their only crime was to challenge the regime’s intellectual Berlin Wall. The ALA, meanwhile, won’t even admit that such a wall exists.