Tonight we have hot water, even though we are all bunked in suites with four people and a shared living room. Everyone is gritty, but happy! We have made it to Varadero, the Habaneros playa – a small town of 18000 with long running beaches that used to be the playground for people from Havana, …
Author: wade
Cuba: Health Care
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 …
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. …