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> No Cuban librarian, no graduate of any of our Cuban library schools, nor >any librarian or paraprofessional who currently or ever has worked in the >Cuban library and information system has been detained." GEORGE ORWELL - "Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip." From the indictment of Ricardo González Alfonso, an independent Cuban librarian who has just been sentenced to 20 years in prison: "In continuation of his slippery actions, the accused González Alfonso, in the year 2000, created and established in his home a library which was called 'independent' in conformity with the interventionist focus of the North Americans, filled with books containing subversive themes, in their majority received as contributions from the U.S. Interests Section in Havana." For latebreaking news on the worldwide anger resulting from the current crackdown in Cuba aimed against librarians and other dissidents, please refer to: (WWW.FRIENDSOFCUBANLIBRARIES.ORG). Sincerely, The Friends of Cuban Libraries (www.friendsofcubanlibraries.org)