Veradero, Cuba: Today we met two different groups of workers in Matanzas Province. We visited at length with mill workers producing cereal lines in Cardenas. We also visited hotel construction workers at the tip of the Veradaro peninsula involved in a joint venture with the French that was half completed. In all likelihood both groups, …
Category: International
Cuba: Varadero
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, …
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 …