Havana, Cuba: I recently read an extended mash note of a book by Tracey Kidder called Mountain to Mountain about Dr. Paul Farmer, a unique public health doctor with a practice in the central plains of Haiti, Peru, and Boston, who with others founded something called Partners in Health – Socios en Salud (www.pih.org). Besides …
Month: March 2004
Cuba: Labor
Havana, Cuba: The Central Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC) building is an impressive multi-story structure complete with an elevator and a surprising number of well-appointed meeting rooms on many of the floors. One can look through the louvered windows across the street to the open windows in the adjoining building and see workers hand wrapping cigars. …
Havana
Havana, Cuba: It takes more imagination than I have to understand how a policy of deliberate isolation for the Cuban people advances any of the articulated governmental interests of the United States. Two examples come easily to hand: television and the internet. During the last month the work has taken me to El Salvador, Mexico, …