No U.S. visa for a Harvard fellow

The U.S. denial of a visa to Colombian TV producer Hollman Morris -invited for a Harvard University fellowship - has been condemned by prominent press freedom and human rights organizations, like the Committee to Protect Journalists, and by mainstream and liberal media.
Charges by the Colombian government that Morris is an "ally of terrorists" have not been sustantiated, writes the CPJ, who also describes the Uribe government's tactics of spying upon, harassing and defaming "troublesome journalists".
Hollman Morris has been investigating the dark side of President Uribe's antiguerilla war and documenting rights abuses by government-allied forces.
This visa denial reminds the days of the Cold War when an ill-advised policy "barring communists" to the U.S. led to denying visas to leading intellectuals like Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes who were closer to president Lincoln than to Karl Marx.

http://cpj.org/2010/07/cpj-urges-clinton-to-reconsider-morris-visa-denial.php