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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The 26th of July is the most sacred day of Cuba’s communist revolution, commemorating 51 years since that fateful day that began the insurrection against Fulgencio Batista. The article that follows is excerpted from Chapter Four of Miguel A. Faria, Jr., M.D.’s book, Cuba in Revolution — Escape From a Lost Paradise (2002). The references
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In this article, reporter Myles Kantor interviews Dr. Miguel Faria, author of Cuba in Revolution: Escape From a Lost Paradise, about the attempted assassination of Fulgencio Batista in Havana on March 13, 1957. The questions by Mr. Kantor are in bold, the answers by Dr. Faria in plain text. What organization carried out the attack
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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