In Part I of this essay, we discussed the secret epidemic of dengue fever, the Cuban gulag, and other aspects of Cuban medicine leading to a poor state of health in that Caribbean island, based on Dr. Dessy Mendoza Rivero’s book ¡Dengue!-La Epidemia Secreta de Fidel Castro (Dengue! The Secret Epidemic of Fidel Castro). Cuba’s […]
Those in the United States who yearn for a more “egalitarian” and “equitable” system of medical care “like the one in Cuba” are not familiar with the extraordinary saga of Cuban physician Dr. Dessy Mendoza Rivero, who has managed to get the word out for anyone willing to listen. And they should. ¡Dengue!-La Epidemia Secreta
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In Part I of this review of Democracy Delayed: The Case of Castro’s Cuba (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002) , we discussed how the hapless Cuban people living in a vacuum, possessed with a dearth of information coming from within and from without the island have quietly turned against the communist regime
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When Juan José López, PhD, a political scientist, proudly dedicated Democracy Delayed: The Case of Castro’s Cuba (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002) — his first book — to his wife Myrna and son Juan Carlos, he could not have anticipated that he would indeed need every bit of their moral and physical support. The
Inside the Cuban Revolution by Julia E. Sweig, senior fellow and deputy director of the Latin American program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), is a greatly disappointing book. For one thing, the book is too narrow in scope and breadth as well as in covering the period under study. Although the book claims
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With Trent Lott ready to have burned Robert E. Lee in effigy to stay in office, it’s refreshing to see Southerners like Dr. Miguel A. Faria, Jr. Dr. Faria is the author of Medical Warrior: Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine, Vandals at the Gates of Medicine, and most recently Cuba in Revolution: Escape From a Lost
