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Academics and legal scholars were flabbergasted when Nicaraguan Dora Maria Tellez, president of the Movimiento de Renovacion Sandinista (MRS), announced in February that the US had denied her a visa for alleged terrorist activities. Tellez had been invited to teach at Harvard Divinity School on religion and society this spring. She told reporters in Nicaragua, "The Department of State has decided to deny me the visa, which, it seems to me, is fully their right to do. But they have done it alleging terrorist activities, and that, for me, is totally unacceptable." A Harvard spokesperson said the university was "very disappointed."
Dora Maria Tellez first came to world prominence as Comandante 2 in the 1978 Sandinista seizure of the Palacio Nacional, the defining moment in the overthrow of Anastasio Somoza, the US-supported dictator of Nicaragua. She left her country as part of the negotiations that ended...
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