Rogelio Manuel Diaz Moreno

In addition to paying tribute and expressing his gratitude to different individuals, countries and cities, President Raul Castro made a brief remark – the most significant of the entire July 26th speech, in my opinion – about what we are going through at the moment and our future.

An article titled “Secret Epidemics: Cuba’s Public Health Ethics” (“El silencio epidemiológico y la ética de la Salud Pública cubana”) appears in the most recent issue of Cuba’s quarterly Public Health Journal (Revista Cubana de Salud Publica). Written by National School of Medicine physician Luis Suarez Rosas, the work criticizes the Cuban government’s information policies in the area of public health.

According to a popular saying, you can let a lie run for many years, but the truth, once freed, will catch up to it in a day. As remarkable as this book’s contents is the fact that it is the fruit of Cuban authors who live and work in Cuba, and that it is published by a well-known publishing house on the island.

In my previous post I concluded by implying that the ultimate goal of our country’s educational system was to create a malleable, alienated & acquiescent youth, though what’s officially proclaimed is something different: the “Soldier of the Revolution” doctrine.

It’s no secret that the educational systems of different societies are geared to reproduce the conditions prevailing in those societies. Nor is it a groundbreaking discovery that an education system is much more than the school system..

On Monday I was in the waiting room at my hospital when the noontime news came on. The broadcast began with information about the headline of the moment here in Cuba: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez undergoing cancer treatment in our country.

In the face of the economic crisis, which is a chronic part of our country today, all socioeconomic sectors have experienced severe budget cuts. The Ministry of Education has felt the downsizing of its workforce and facilities.