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Category Archives: Cities
Fidel Batista!
(January 25, 2003) Over at the Museo de la Revolucion, Fidel Castro’s case against the dictator he overthrew 44 years ago is vividly on display. Continue reading
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Responses to ‘Cuba’s cruel joke’
(January 20, 2003) Re: Cuba’s Cruel Joke, Lawrence Solomon, National Post, Jan. 11. I am truly impressed that a Canadian newspaper has finally captured the very essence of the survival of the Cuban people. Continue reading
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Bad Cuban medicine
(January 18, 2003) The shelves in the neighbourhood pharmacy, like those in the other neighbourhood pharmacies I had seen in Havana, were half empty and full of dust, the small section of medicines on display arranged in lonely rows of old-fashioned little bottles. Customers were as scarce as the medicines. Continue reading
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Cuba’s cruel joke
(January 11, 2003) “Can I have your bones?” the old woman asked my eight-year-old daughter, pointing to the gnawed remains of the chicken leg that had been her lunch. Continue reading
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Triumph of freedom
(January 4, 2003) Conservatives dismayed by the increasing size of government can take heart. Large size is not tantamount to a loss of freedom. At no point since Europeans first colonized this continent have governments been less powerful, less oppressive, and less intrusive in our economic and personal lives. Continue reading
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