LASA and Cuba Part II

I mentioned a few days ago that the U.S. government has denied Cubans visas to come to the LASA meetings, and only belatedly realized that a Cuban was supposed to be on my panel, so it even affects me directly. It's still not clear to me how a professor studying Cuban demography has become a national security threat.

I must admit the meetings in Puerto Rico seem very distant, since it is a crisp, clear, beautiful, and cold morning here in Bourron Marlotte, a French village about an hour outside Paris.