Translation: The medical community does not believe in traditional medicine. They have more confidence perscribing medication that has been pushed on them by pharmacitical companies. The majority of these drugs only treat symptoms and have side effects that are worse than the condition they have been prescribed for.

There are groups, like the Maya, that have not been associated with some diseases. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

My father and his parents lived in Cuba from 1939 to 1942. They were German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, and not political left-wingers. That family history is where my own interest in Cuba comes from.

Cuban society today represents an effort to build an alternative to the way life was under the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who ran Cuba before Fidel Castro led a revolution there. No one complained about a lack of human rights and democracy in those days, but U.S. businesses were protected.

Some things work, some don’t. Like any society, Cuba its flaws and contradictions, as well as having some solid achievements. No society is perfect. But we can certainly learn a few things from Cuba’s experience.

Please check out the CubaNews group which I’ve directed for over eight years and where you can follow the Cuban story.

Thanks,

Walter Lippmann
Los Angeles, California