VILLA CLARA, June 28 (Edel José García, CNP) - An
eleven-year-old student in Cuba refused to write a letter assigned to him as a
classroom exercise July 13, condemning American president George W. Bush and
American policy toward Cuba.
Agustín Ortueta Carrillo told his teacher at the Abel Santamaría
elementary school in Caibarién, in the central Cuban province of Santa
Clara, that he was not going to write the letter because what he wanted was to
go live in the United States. The teacher warned Agustín that his refusal
would be entered into his school records and would weigh heavily against him.
The students were assigned to write letters indicating their rejection of
the U. S. embargo, the Helms-Burton Act and the Cuban Adjustment Act. The
students were told the letters would be forwarded to the Cuban interests section
in Washington. There are reports that students in at least four other provinces
have also been assigned to write the letters as a classroom exercise.
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