The Miami-Dade School Board voted to ban the children’s book A Visit to Cuba from the county’s public schools.
It became the target of controversy earlier this year when the father of a Marjory Stoneman Douglas Elementary student complained about the book’s rosy portrayal of life in Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
“The Cuban people have been paying a dear price for 47 years for the reality to be known,” said Juan Amador Rodriguez, a former political prisoner in Cuba who filed the original complaint, which was denied, and subsequent appeals. “A 32-page book cannot silence that.”
It’s heartwarming when people flee a dictatorship so they can come to America and start banning books.