Guest Author: Bryan Ogork
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Cuba has a planned-socialist economy and its main source of revenue at the moment is tourism and the export of healthcare services, which it does by sending physicians, nurses, and healthcare technicians to nations like Venezuela and Brazil. Gone are the days of sugar and tobacco being the main income source. Rather, the nation now…
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With current movements and urbanization around the world, many farmers are facing issues where they have no one to take over their farms which means that farmers get old and cannot work the land anymore, forcing them to sell. During this trip we got the opportunity to speak with Usmani, a tobacco farmer who expressed…
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To understand Cuba, you need to get a better feel of its demographic and general geography. Cuba is a long and narrow island located at the intersection of the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Caribbean Sea. Spanning about 43,000 square miles, the island contains vast areas of farmland, mountainous and another highland…