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    Vol.62/No.35           October 5, 1998 
 
 
Cuban Editor Receives Visa, Will Visit U.S.  

BY HARVEY McARTHUR
CHICAGO - Norberto Codina, editor of the Cuban cultural magazine La Gaceta de Cuba, begins a month-long lecture series at university campuses in several U.S. cities this week.

Codina will begin his visit as part of a delegation of Cuban scholars who will be attending the conference of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in Chicago September 24-26.

A delegation of several dozen Cuban academics was invited by LASA to attend the conference. They will participate in workshops on topics ranging from U.S.-Cuba relations, to women in Cuba, to the political role of Argentine-Cuban revolutionary leader Ernesto Che Guevara.

U.S. officials were late in granting entry visas to many of the Cuban participants. This, along with a cancellation of flights due to hurricane Georges, will cause many to miss the beginning of the conference.

La Gaceta de Cuba, published by the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), is a lively and wide-ranging forum for discussion on the arts, literature, and commentary on many aspects of Cuban culture and politics. It regularly includes selections of essays, poetry, short stories, and drawings. Recent issues have featured literature by Cuban- American writers and essays presenting different views on topics such as the challenges facing Cuban television today. The issue just off the presses includes an interview with Cuban singer Silvio Rodríguez.

After the LASA event, Codina will travel to New York, where he has been invited to speak at meetings at Hostos College on September 30 and Casa de las Américas on October 2.

He then goes to Boston for a public meeting at Emerson College, a poetry reading at Tufts University, a reception at the University of Massachusetts, and a meeting of garment workers hosted by Local l of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees.

The Cuban writer will then travel to the San Francisco Bay Area and Minneapolis, where meetings are being sponsored at the University of California and the University of Minnesota. Codina's speaking engagements are being coordinated by Prof. Félix Masud-Piloto at DePaul University in Chicago.

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