5 September 2024
Dear Patrons,
The last few months have been very productive for me. In late April I wrote a lengthy article on the economic crisis in Cuba which has been a result of a tightening of economic sanctions on the island by the government of the United States. Interviewing several academics, a Cuban journalist and several citizens on the island, the reality of the crisis was made clear to me by voices such as Carlos Rivera, a 40-year-old health care worker at a public hospital in Havana. According to Rivera:
"Today there is no end to the crisis, we don’t know where all this is going to end. We see that hospitals are being silenced, when health services are an important source of foreign currency for the country and are not even capable of at least improving the working conditions of those who work in that sector. The oil crisis, on the other hand, is hitting us hard. The issue of transport is very serious."
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