The Director General of the National Library, Fernando Báez, denounced the refusal of the United States government to allow him to visit that country, in order to present his work "A Universal History of the Destruction of Books," whose first English edition was published two weeks ago in New York by Atlas & Co. Báez pointed out the double standards of the U.S. State Department, in its condemnation of other countries for their supposed violations of human rights, while at the same it censors works by certain writers whose interests are not in line with that of the George W. Bush administration.