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FORMER Mexican president Felipe Calderon said on Tuesday that Cuba denied him and other Latin American politicians visas to attend an anticommunist event.
Mr Calderon had been invited to Havana along with Organisation of American States (OAS) secretary-general Luis Almagro by Rosa Maria Paya of the Latin American Network of Youth for Democracy.
Mr Almagro was to receive a prize from the anti-Marxist group, which opposes the socialist Cuban government.
Former Chilean education minister Maria Aylwin — daughter of Patricio Aylwin, the first elected president following the Pinochet dictatorship — was also denied a visa.
The Washington-based OAS expelled Cuba in 1962 following the 1959 revolution, citing its adherence to Marxist-Leninism, and more recently intervened in Venezuela’s internal affairs in the side of the right-wing opposition.
