It's well known that the US was condemned by the World Court for aiding and abetting a terrorist war in Nicaragua. How grimly ironic then, to read this:
'Early in 2004, Dora Maria Tellez, a heroine of Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution and now a professor of history, applied for a visa to study in the US in preparation to teach at one of the country's most prestigious academic institutions, Harvard University's Divinity School.
In January she was told by the US consul in Nicaragua that, under new provisions of the US immigration rules, her request for a visa had been denied. Only later did she discover that the provisions concerned people connected with terrorism.'
So, someone who suffered under a terrorist campaign directed against her country is barred from speaking on account of being a 'terrorist'. At the same time, the man involved in directing the terrorist campaign against her country is appointed 'intelligence chief' in the country from which she is barred.
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