“Vamos a Cuba” – to ban or not to ban?

Earlier this week, arguments were heard in a federal court over the appeal by the Miami-Dade County School District to ban a children’s book on Cuba. Lawyers for the school board want to overturn a July 2006 decision to return the book- “Vamos a Cuba”- from public school libraries.

Blog Critical Miami has an excellent synopsis of the differing arguments in the case:

“The ACLU is all like, “All a publicly elected body has to do to ban a book is utter the word inaccurate? If that’s the case every library administrator and library association in the country should be worried.” And the judges are all like, “[what about] a book about Adolf Hitler that would credit the Nazi leader with creating the Volkswagen and bringing Germany out of the depression — but not mention the Holocaust.”

Image- New York Times

Sources- South Florida Sun-Sentinel, The Latin Americanist, MSNBC, Critical Miami