It’s a real outrage that La Colmenita cannot perform in the United States as often as many people would like.

However the case for The Little Beehive would have been much more convincing hadn’t the article been written by the same journalist that four years ago penned (in cooperation with Luís Báez) the infamous book Disidentes. In that book--based on interviews with people working, as infiltrated, for the government security services--Rosa Miriam Elizarde made, in fact, another (and far less noble) case: the one in favor of the arrest of seventy-five journalists (among them Raúl Rivero, now exiled in Spain), all of them later sentenced eighteen to twenty-five years in prison after a farcical trial.

I very much approved the message contained in your “special” dedicated to the “next Cuba." But I can’t help wondering whether The Nation couldn’t have chosen, on this topics, a more credible messenger. Let’s hope, all together, in a “next Cuba” in which there are many Little Beehives and no Rosa Miriam Elizarde.

Massimo Cavallini

Hollywood, Florida