Month: August 2011

Cuba Shoe Repairman’s Business Tips

I generally have a lot of work. This isn’t new for me; I began in 1993 and it has always worked out well for me. You just got to understand that this type of business has its rules…and it’s important to know them and how they’re applied.

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Medical Ethics Weakening in Cuba

A friend had this conversation while enduring the hardship of the metallic coldness of one of the unbearable post-operative tables at the Workers Maternity Hospital (Maternidad Obrera) in Marianao.

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Firefighters Kids Party for Fidel on his 85th

Fidel Castro’s 85th birthday on Saturday was cause for festivities at the Firefighters Museum in Old Havana. Local children were invited to join with dance, song and to observe a demonstration of abilities by the hosts with their modern equipment. (25 photos)

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That Which Costs Us Nothing…

The overwhelming majority of the places here are not private. Social property makes things everyone’s but ultimately nobody’s. This can be verified easily in the difference of how private and public properties are maintained.

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Huxley Didn’t Go Far Enough

Aldoux Huxley — an intellectual of the type no longer seen today and uncle of all hippies — was one of the first people to experiment with and study entheogens during the cultural revolution of the 1950s and ‘60s.

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Yasmin: A Multifaceted Cuban Activist and Blogger

Yasmin defines herself as a feminist and a Marxist, she signs her e-mails with a phrase by Carlo Frabetti: “Engels couldn’t have said it clearer: the first form of exploitation, the basis of all others, was the exploitation of woman by man; but not even Marx listened to him.”

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A Typical Cuba Scam

How is it that a family-owned business that’s starting up can do a better job than an operation owned by a government that practically monopolizes all the business on the island?

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