El Noticiero de Alvarez Galloso

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Versión en español publicada en mi columna en Libertad Digital.

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Versión en inglés a continuación:
Paris, May 23, 2012

Mrs. Hillary Clinton
United States Secretary of State
Dear Madam Secretary:

In the mid 1990s, during the Clinton presidency, under the first Castro dictatorship in my homeland, Cuba, the International Book Fair in Miami invited me to be a participant. Although at that time I already lived in exile in Paris, the United States denied me a visa on three different occasions. The organizers of the Book Fair sent a letter to the President, and I personally contacted his office thanks to the assistance of a Cuban American journalist. Finally, my visa was approved, as was my husband’s, the filmmaker Ricardo Vega, and my young daughter’s, a baby. Nonetheless, at the airport, before boarding the airplane, we were searched from top to bottom, in a private room. The police used gloves…