February 07, 2005
Can you say...
Free Health Care:
RANCHUELO, February 3 (Félix Reyes Gutiérrez, Cubanacán Press / www.cubanet.org) - Patients of the municipal polyclinic in Ranchuelo, Villa Clara province, say they are upset about the closing of their municipal polyclinic for repairs.As of February 1, they have to roam from place to place for medical attention, because, they say, services have been spread out to different facilities around town.
Free Education:
HAVANA, February 3 (Aleaga Pesant, UPECI / www.cubanet.org) - A number of parents whose children attend the Carlos J. Finlay middle school in the upscale Vedado district of Havana protested what they called the poor quality of education provided their children.Among their chief complaints, parents cited video classes, calling them cold and of very little value. They also mentioned the stuffing of the curriculum and poorly trained teachers.
Parents also pointed out that often academic studies are slighted in favor of political tasks in support of the government.
In the last two years, as part of the so called "battle of ideas," the Cuban government has put in place new educational methods, among them the extensive use of classes by video tape, wherein students listen to a prerecorded class on tape instead of to a live teacher. The government has also tried to make up for a scarcity of qualified teachers by using what it calls "emergent teachers," students themselves who are one or two years short of a degree.
There, I knew you could.
Posted by Val Prieto at February 7, 2005 01:49 PM
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Me thinketh that the shortage of teachers occurreth because fidel hath sendeth all of them to teach the unsuspecting venezuelans the dark and arcane arts of communism.
Just as well, gives the Cuban students a reprieve, since bad quality of teaching marxist-leninist dogma is vastly preferential to the full diet of it.
Hasta Cuando Dios Mio???
Posted by: cohetedude at February 7, 2005 09:34 PM
I'd like to know what is meant by 'upscale' district of Havana. I had trouble reading after that!
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at February 8, 2005 03:32 AM
Por Cuba Democratica,Libre y Justa/Free Cuba Now!
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We should keep fighting until Democracy,Freedom and Justice is restored in Cuba,but of course,without " the help" of Dictator Fidel, and his brother Raul,who are running the island as a personal property in a very destructive way for the nation.We must never dismay in our efforts to let the world know what is really going on inside the gallows in the prisons and the forced labor the political prisioners of concience face every day together with the lack of food and medical attention. We must never forget those sent to pysiquiatric wards to receive "electroshock therapy" because of their beliefs or just because they opposse the arbitrary regimen impossed upon them by the ruling tyranny.In Cuba,every day people are struggling to survive, because Castro's internal embargo upon civil life and human rights and not because the so-called "american embargo." Don't hesitate and speak out everytime you have the opportunity to do so for the future and sake of the cuban people who have no voice inside the captive island and much less access to the Internet to make themselves heard to the outside world. The Cuban People always is going to be grateful for our efforts and thats is our best reward. Sooner or later the Truth must prevail! Freedom for Cuba Now! Castro must go! A.H. (S.O.P.L.I.N.) Sociedad de Opositores Por La Independencia Nacional
Posted by: Alex at February 8, 2005 07:31 PM
