Juanes Nearly Cancelled Cuban Concert Because Secret Police Followed Him.

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A radio station aired a recording of Juanes angrily denouncing being shadowed while on the island.
"This is it, we're leaving now! We're very angry, very angry, very angry. We came here to sing to the young people of Cuba, and that's why we are here. But we've encountered strong obstacles, and this is it!" the singer is heard saying in the recording.
"I just noticed that the person that brings me breakfast and drives my taxi also showed up at the concert, and now he's there behind us, taking notes. I don't want to go back to my room," Juanes explained to Cuban officials.

Opening Czech Secret Police Files.

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Controvery surrounds the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.
Opened 18 months ago, it oversees the Czech Republic's huge collection of secret police files, a collection numbering 280 million pages.

"The institute is in the process of digitizing the archives and creating an electronic registry, with the goal of strengthening democratic traditions by studying these communist-era documents, according to its website."

"“It's politicians trying to influence history — so it's like the [communist] past," said Vladimira Dvorakova, who heads the political science department at the University of Economics in Prague."