The latest medical reports from Havana assert that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who is 80-years-old and has ruled the island for 47 years, will recuperate from his mysterious intestinal illness and return to “public life.” Venezuelan president, and Castro’s sidekick and fawning admirer, Hugo Chavez, likewise affirms that Castro does not have cancer, does not […]
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Seventy-eight-year-old Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, dressed in his usual olive green fatigues, tripped and fell fracturing his left knee and sustaining a hairline fracture of the upper right arm Wednesday, October 20, 2004. He had just finished giving a speech at a graduation ceremony in Santa Clara when the incident happened. Security personnel rushed to
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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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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
