Search results for: mexico doctor

Finland Model of Education: Secrets of a Better Teaching System / Dora Leonor Mesa

It’s the country that tops all the international ratings; where teachers have greater decision making powers within schools and more social prestige. In Finland teaching is one of the most popular professions and being a teacher is as respected as being a doctor or lawyer. Perhaps this is one of the factors which explains why … Continue reading “Finland Model of Education: Secrets of a Better Teaching System / Dora Leonor Mesa”

Death Penalty and Respect for Life / Ernesto Morales Licea

The oldest of the three, Dylan McFarlane, is 18 and is the only one who didn’t fire that night. Eric Ronald Ellington, the first to be arrested and the author of the most amazing confession the police interrogators of Miami-Dade had ever heard in all their years in their posts, is 16, the same age … Continue reading “Death Penalty and Respect for Life / Ernesto Morales Licea”

The 50th Season of Cuban Ball Starts / Iván García

Millions of Cubans are beside themselves with delight. The biggest sporting competition in Cuba starts on Sunday, November 28th in the old Cerro Stadium, today called the Latinamerican Stadium. And they’re celebrating the 50th season of baseball, the King of Sports on the island. January 14, 1962, in his inseparable olive green uniform and a … Continue reading “The 50th Season of Cuban Ball Starts / Iván García”

Destination USA At Any Price / Iván García

The US Coast Guard confirms that one of every three rafters who attempts to cross the shark-infested Florida Straits dies in the attempt. Official figures don’t exist. But in 50 years, as many as 10,000 Cubans could have disappeared in the turbulent tropical waters. Clandestine emigration is a deadly game of Russian Roulette. There is … Continue reading “Destination USA At Any Price / Iván García”

What they Don’t Tell Us about the Matamoros Trio

Fifty years ago, on May 10, 1960, the Matamoros Trio, headed by Siro Rodriguez, Rafael Cueto, and Miguel Matamoros, performed in public for the last time.  They bid their farewells on the program called Partagas Thursdays, one of the most popular Cuban TV shows at the time. According to the Colombian investigator, Walter G. Magaña, … Continue reading “What they Don’t Tell Us about the Matamoros Trio”

As Much Pain As Hope

Not yet having overcome the gray and cold, with little bread and scant shelter, which we Cubans have passed through in these days of January 2010, news of the earthquake in Haiti came to us. With the passing of the hours, we learned the magnitude of the catastrophe, a tragedy that grows daily.  The entire … Continue reading “As Much Pain As Hope”

The Joke of the New Man / Ivan Garcia

The formation of the New Man has always been a fruitless task. Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara, its precursor, with his straw full of mate (a kind of tea that Argentinians drink from a bulb-shaped container, through a straw), was delirious in his moments of rest in the guerrilla war, on the road to Santa Clara … Continue reading “The Joke of the New Man / Ivan Garcia”