The Miami-Dade County School Board petitioned the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold its ban on 49 copies of
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The children’s geography book is about daily life on the island. It contains images of smiling children wearing uniforms of Cuba’s communist youth group and celebrating the country’s 1959 revolution.
These were objectionable to Miami’s most ardent right-wing Cubans, who successfully pushed for the book to be banned. The action ignored the recommendations of two school advisory committees and the superintendent.
Miami’s right-wing Cuban exile community is notorious for its hatred of socialist Cuba. The city has been the launch pad for terrorist attacks on Cuba for over 45 years.
