Stories: Cuba
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Can Cuban Medicine Help Solve American Inequality?
The Salvador Allende hospital is an oasis of green in Cerro, a run-down neighborhood of Havana, far from the oceanfront hotels and tourist restaurants of Cuba’s capital. Originally built in 1899 to provide care to Spanish colonists, the hospital campus is smattered with colonnaded buildings set amidst well-tended parks. That it resembles a small liberal arts college is...
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Can Cuban Medicine Help Solve American Inequality?
The Salvador Allende hospital is an oasis of green in Cerro, a run-down neighborhood of Havana, far from the oceanfront hotels and tourist restaurants of Cuba’s capital. Originally built in 1899 to provide care to Spanish colonists, the hospital campus is smattered with colonnaded buildings set amidst well-tended parks. That it resembles a small liberal arts college is...
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Cuba’s Focus on Preventive Medicine Pays Off
In the airy, naturally lit examination room in a ward of the Salvador Allende teaching hospital, Carlos Campos places his hands gently on the chest of a shirtless young man who has come in with a fever. A group of students crowd around, listening intently. Campos places his thumbs on the patient’s chest, and explains how students can...
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Cuba’s Focus on Preventive Medicine Pays Off
In the airy, naturally lit examination room in a ward of the Salvador Allende teaching hospital, Carlos Campos places his hands gently on the chest of a shirtless young man who has come in with a fever. A group of students crowd around, listening intently. Campos places his thumbs on the patient’s chest, and explains how students can...
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Risky Journalism: In Castro’s Cuba, Reporters Who Reject the Party Line Pay Dearly
They are a sullen bunch, smoking cigarette after cigarette as they wait their turn to use a single telephone in a small apartment. Suddenly, the doorbell rings and talk stops. Estrella Garcia, the apartment owner, heads to the porch to toss a door key down to yet another journalist, who slowly trudges up the stairs. As a self-described "member of...