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, …
Category: International
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 …
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, …