Cuba Offers Lessons on Community, Preservation (w/fixed link)
Cuba Offers Lessons on Community, Preservation
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Day two of our trip to Cuba started with a discussion on health care practices with two high level medical officials with one making the following statement- “We are poor people that die like rich people”. Certainly provocative but what did he mean? More on that later.
During the day we focused on the social side of life in Havana. You may wonder what that has to do with preservation or sustainability (as did I initially) but I learned an important lesson. As we met with our lecturers and toured a number of neighborhoods, the constant thread throughout the day was how important the social context is for any decision in Cuba. This is a country that focuses its very limited resources on health care and education with surprisingly good results, despite their poverty. But how does that fact relate to preservation?
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