HAVANA TIMES – The Cuban intellectual Roberto Zurbano, has been “liberated” (the Cuban government language for dismissed) from his position as director of the publishing house of Casa de las Americas, following the publication in The New York Times of an article critical of racism in Cuba.
Zurbano told a meeting of the Regional African Descent in Latin America and the Caribbean, Cubano Chapter (ARAC), the decision of Casa de las Americas was to offer him another position.
Meanwhile, ARAC issued a public statement (in Spanish) “strongly supporting the free expression of ideas by all of its activists”, and opposed “institutional or personal procedures that are of a repressive or obstructive nature against any participant in such controversies”.
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