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FROM
CUBA
Cuban language teacher fired after applying
for U.S. visa lottery
HAVANA, Jan. 21 (www.cubanet.org) - José
Luis Rodríguez, who holds a degree
in foreign languages, says he's now working
as a carpenter, all because he submitted
his name for the lottery for emigration
to the United States in 1997.
Rodríguez says that same year he
was summoned by the education authorities
in Batabanó for a meeting with officials
of the municipality, the Communist Party
of Cuba, the Union of Young Communists and
State Security. He says he was told that
State Security had proof that he was corresponding
with President Bill Clinton, South Florida
Members of Congress Lincoln Diaz-Balart
and Iliana Ros Lehtinen and the Cuban American
National Foundation.
Rodríguez says he fired from his
state teaching job and has been blackballed
as a private teacher. "From that moment
on I have been under police surveillance
in the municipality."
Married with two children, he says he is
currently employed as a carpenter making
wooden spools for electrical cable.
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