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Archives for October 2010
Thirty Days as a Cuban
Pinching pesos and dropping pounds in Havana. In the first two decades of my life I don’t believe I ever went more than nine hours without eating. Later on I was subjected to longer bouts—in China in the 1980s, traveling with insurgents in remote areas of Colombia and Nepal, crossing South America by motorcycle, deeply [Continue Reading]
Writers Voice: Cuba Present And Past
Journalist Patrick Symmes talks about living on $15 dollars a month in Cuba. His article in the October Harper’s is “Thirty Days as a Cuban: Pinching pesos and dropping pounds in Havana.” And we air a 2008 interview with T.J. English about HAVANA NOCTURNE. It’s about how the Mob took over Havana and lost it [Continue Reading]
Dispatches – cbc radio: The Cuban State Diet
Patrick Symmes recently lost a little weight, but gained a lot of insight into how Cuba works. He went there to live for a month on the same rations most Cubans have to live on: about $15 American worth of food. Put another way: most of us would be licking the crumbs from the cookie [Continue Reading]
