that the Managua government's next step "could be to stop the arrival of my books at customs as a form of censorship and reprisal."A group of Latin American writers attending the Guadalajara Book Fair this week issued a statement condemning the "official censorship."
"No government can assume the legal authority to veto or ban the words of a writer, and such an act can only be described as totalitarian," said the declaration signed by literary heavyweights such as Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Fernando Savatier, Tomas Eloy Martinez and Carlos Monsivais.
from Latin American Herald Tribune: Nicaragua Blocks Ex-Vice President Sergio Ramirez From Writing Prologue To Poetry Book
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