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From Jeff Jacoby's column in the March 17 edition of the "Boston Globe," describing his recent visit to Cuba: "And so was born the first of Cuba's independent libraries - independent of state control, of censorship, and of any ideology save the conviction that it is no crime to read a book.... The Castro regime boasts of having wiped out illiteracy. That makes it all the more unforgivable that it has turned the lending of books into an act of defiance. Dissent in Cuba takes many forms, but there is none that shames the regime more." Full text available at: (www.boston.com/globe/columns/jacoby). Also, appearing SOON in translation on our website, the March 15 speech by Berta Mexidor in the concert hall of Sweden's Parliament building, accepting the Democracy Prize awarded to her by Sweden's Liberal Party. Sincerely, Friends of Cuban Libraries (WWW.FRIENDSOFCUBANLIBRARIES.ORG)