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VENEZUELA IS QUIETLY QUITTING SOCIALISM (A Digression from Cuban Matters)
Stefano Pozzebon CNN, December 18, 2020 Original Article Shantytowns surround Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, like the walls of a bowl. Little houses pile on each other on the steep hills, some reachable only by vertiginous staircases. Earlier this month, Ingrid Sanchez tried to rustle up votes here for the ruling Socialist Party in Petare, Venezuela’s largest …
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Sun, beach and safety: Cuba’s proposal in times of pandemic
At first glance, it is hard to believe that we are in 2020: several people sunbathe on the sand, others laugh with cocktails in hand and a couple embracing walk near the water. All with their faces uncovered, forgetting for a few days that a pandemic is still raging outside. The only clue that COVID-19 …
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Eusebio Leal in the heart of Havana
The death of Dr. Eusebio Leal on July 31 left Havana orphaned, the city to which he consecrated his life and that this Thursday, as a full tribute to his work, went to give him his choral and at the same time intimate goodbye at the National Capitol. There, in the monumental building that he …
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Coronavirus: 142 discharged patients in Cuba, new infections rise to 122
With 142 recovered patients, the statistics seem encouraging; however, the new infections this Thursday rose to 122, a high number, the second highest after 124 were detected positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus last December 6. More than half correspond to imported cases (66 imported-56 autochthonous), the predominant scenario since last December 11, according to Dr. …
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Cuba’s Revolution in Health Care
Don Fitz has written a fascinating account (Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution) of the development of the Cuban health care system. Placing developments in their historical context—and emphasizing Cuban internationalism throughout—Fitz has illuminated how the Cubans have developed a health care system that is the envy of many countries around the world; and one …
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Cuba reported 100 new cases of COVID-19 at the close of this Wednesday
The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) registered 100 new positive cases for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, half of them infected abroad. According to the MINSAP daily report, at the end of this Wednesday, 3,675 patients were hospitalized, of which 862 are active cases, and 848 are suspects. Se confirmaron 100 nuevos casos …
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This is not a profile, it’s just about Gay Talese in Havana*
If the journalism students of my generation had been told that Gay Talese, the author of Honor Thy Father (1971) and dozens of iconic stories of New Journalism such as “Mr. Bad News,” walked the boiling streets of Havana camouflaged in that daily life of survivals, the entourage that he would have achieved was going …
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Human rights: guide for dialogue in Cuba (I)
The second Whereas of the Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights announces “…the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief.”1 Since the Declaration was proclaimed in 1948 to 2020, the wounds of inequality among human beings, poverty, hunger, privation of millions of people, social and …
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Confronting and Ending the US Blockade Against Cuba
Photograph Source: NatalieMaynor – CC BY 2.0 U.S. news reports rarely touch upon the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba. The blockade destroys people’s lives and threatens the island’s economy and Cuba’s economic development. Damning evidence appears in the Cuba’s Foreign Ministry’s most recent report on adverse effects. Its authors refer to “the longest-lasting trade embargo …
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Académicos dedican seminario al análisis de situación socioeconómica de Cuba
Los debates incluyeron el contexto regional e internacional, desafíos del ordenamiento monetario, coyuntura social y la nueva estrategia socioeconómica. La entrada Académicos dedican seminario al análisis de situación socioeconómica de Cuba se publicó primero en IPS Cuba.
