UNITED STATES: Sandinista academic refused visa

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On March 4, the US State Department confirmed that it had denied a visa to Dora Maria Tellez, one of the leaders of the 1979 revolution in Nicaragua, and the first health minister in the post-1979 Sandinista government, because of her involvement in "terrorist acts". Last year, Tellez was appointed the Robert F. Kennedy visiting professor at Harvard. The decision comes shortly after John Negroponte was appointed intelligence head. As ambassador to Honduras in the early 1980s, Negroponte was responsible for organising a covert terror war — the "contra incident" — on the Sandinista government that killed 200,000 people.

From Green Left Weekly, March 9, 2005.
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