Sep 23
Havana, Sep 21.- The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) stated that Cuba is the only Latin American country without child malnutrition, while 146 million children are suffering from that scourge worldwide…
Nov 17
From Green Left Online
The United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Report 2009 was released on October 5. It again highlighted some of Cuba’s extraordinary achievements…
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Apr 30
‘Ours is an Autonomous Revolution’, by Norman Girvan
Comments OffReport on a visit to Cuba, March-April 1990
Cuba remains a remarkable example of courage and determination in defending its national sovereignty in the face of almost overwhelming odds and of sustained commitment to social justice in spite of extreme economic difficulties. Not everything is perfect, and I am sure that I would have lots to complain about if I had to live the life of an ordinary Cuban. But I also believe that there is much that we in the rest of the Caribbean can learn—and take heart—from, subjected as we are to a daily barrage of individualist and consumerist values and the often demoralising effects of the ideology of globalisation…
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