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Women of childbearing age: Are they responsible for the problem?
During the past number of years there has been a notable decrease in Cuba’s birth rate, at which time the country has not reached the necessary population replacement rate since 1978.…
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NRA-backed politicians turn their backs on Florida children
One hundred students from Marjory Stoneham Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, traveled in buses to Tallahassee. Inside the Florida Capitol they were met with reality. There to…
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Republicans target social programs to pay for tax cuts for the rich
Having passed a tax law that richly rewards the very rich, the Republicans now want the rest of us to pay the freight. The GOP tax “reform” creates a huge fiscal hole that Republicans…
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The big change: Reorganizing the chaos
When the currency situation is finally resolved the greater question then becomes what is the value of each Cuban's work. What will be the value of one's real salary, and if that real…
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2018: A year of important political races in Florida
The November midterm elections will serve, for one, to gauge Trump’s possibilities for reelection in 2020. It will also determine if the Congress remains a Republican stronghold for the…
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GOP Senator Rand Paul accuses party of hypocrisy on the deficit
For decades, Republicans have postured as deficit hawks. Senator Rand Paul, in a marathon speech against his own party’s budget bill, asked how Republicans could decry deficits when…
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19 more phantoms impede travel to Cuba
If you are the U.S. State Department in the age of Trump, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wants to ramp up the scare meter on Cuba travelers, you continue to hype the secretive…
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State of disunion
The president who has done more than any other to polarize this already divided nation delivered his first State of the Union speech last week. The partisan chasm, one of many rifts in…
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Cuba’s dual currency is due for revision
During the sessions of the National Assembly in December, the Cuban government reprised the discussion about the importance of moving toward a new monetary and exchange system. While a…
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Non-state sector in Cuba: Back to the past?
When in December 2017 the Cuban government released details of the new rules -- still not approved -- for self-employed labor and non-agricultural cooperatives, many of us remembered…
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