HAVANA, July 5 (Ricardo González Alfonso) – State Security agents in Havana told the national coordinator of the Independent Libraries Project that the government would "tolerate the independent libraries as long as they do not attempt against the present situation in the country."

This marks an apparent departure in government policy. Several times in the recent past people involved with the independent libraries, part of the island's emerging civil society movement, had been told by Security agents that the government would not tolerate the initiatives.

The libraries' national coordinator, Rubén Camalleri Álvarez, 49, was taken in by a State Security agent on July 4 around noon and questioned for a space of eight hours on the Independent Libraries Project. Camalleri said the agents "were extremely respectful and they told me to be calm."

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