HAVANA, July 23 (Reinaldo Cosano Alén) Several students at a middle
school in Matanzas province were kept after school recently because they refused
to write letters to U. S. president George W. Bush which they considered went
against their religious beliefs.
The letters are part of a Cuban government campaign to explain to the U.S.
president who Cuba's national hero, José Martí, was. The students
saw the letters' intent as political and contrary to their Pentecostal
religious beliefs.
School authorities made the group stay after school until they finished the
letters, which the students nevertheless refused to write.
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