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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Dollar gnaws at Cuba's marvellous revolution Giles
Tremlett in www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jul/22/cuba.gilestremlett [accessed
6 May 2011] On a An American writer visits Cuba Emory
King [accessed
6 May 2011] At the 450 year-old Cathedral of
San Cristobal, I was accosted by the street
children. There was a half dozen of them. None was ragged and none looked
underfed. One 10 year-old wanted me to give him my pen, "for my
schoolwork." He talked English. A little girl asked for a Tropi-cola, the Cuban equivalent of coke. A more
enterprising child wanted to sell me cigars "my mama makes." It was
touching but I maintained a hard heart and walked on. They didn't seem to
mind. They continued their game of tag on the cobbled stone street. ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF – www.unicef.org/infobycountry/cuba.html [accessed
6 May 2011] Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61723.htm [accessed 30 January 2011] CHILDREN - Police officers who found
children loitering in the streets
or begging from tourists frequently intervened and tried to find the parents.
If a child was found bothering tourists more than once, police frequently
fined the child's parents. During their summer vacation, students were
pressured to enlist for up to a week of "volunteer labor" at work
camps in rural areas. Rick
Smith, Dissident Voice, August 29th, 2008 dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/cuba-and-the-struggle-for-survival-part-2/ [accessed
6 May 2011] Around the world there are about
100 million street children. In Cuba, one sees no street children. Half of
the world’s more than a billion people living in severe poverty are children.
In Cuba, there is a major investment in children; so again, one would be hard
pressed to find any Cuban children suffering under conditions of extreme
poverty. 90 million children in Latin America live in poverty. 200 million
children around the world lack access to basic health care. Cuban children
have access to health care. There are about 115 million children around the
world of primary school age who are not in school, and who will probably
remain illiterate. Cuba has a 100% literacy rate, and virtually all Cuban
children attend schools that produce what some consider the best education in
the hemisphere at the elementary level. Dollar gnaws at Giles
Tremlett in www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jul/22/cuba.gilestremlett [accessed
6 May 2011] On a Destination child-hood.com,
Country information: www.child-hood.com/index.php?id=712&type=6&type=6 [accessed
6 May 2011] COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF
CHILDREN IN TOURISM -
Expanding tourism, together with other factors, has led to a growth of the
leisure infrastructure. In connection with this, there has also been a growth
of prostitution and cases of trafficking in humans, promoted by the difficult
economic situation of the country since 1990. Every day, new children are
driven into prostitution, in order to earn something to contribute to the
survival of their family. Many street children are abducted and subsequently
become victims of commercial sexual exploitation. In their desperation, some
fall for promises of well-paid jobs in the towns and cities. In recent years,
the number of children in the towns and cities that are being sexually
exploited has increased markedly. The press reports of cases in which foreign
tourists have particularly asked for children below the age of 14. Beyond
Tourism Katherine
Guckenberger, Duke Magazine Volume 88, No.5,
July-August 2002 -- Archive Edition www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/070802/depreg.html [accessed
6 May 2011] Any disconsolation a tourist might
feel for the dilapidated state of the capital must also come to terms with
the more disturbing evidence of Cuba's great social problems and
inconsistencies, some wacky and some simply woeful. An American writer visits Cuba Emory
King [accessed
6 May 2011] At the 450 year-old Cathedral of
San Cristobal, I was accosted by the street children.
There was a half dozen of them. None was ragged and none looked underfed. One
10 year-old wanted me to give him my pen, "for my schoolwork." He
talked English. A little girl asked for a Tropi-cola,
the Cuban equivalent of coke. A more enterprising child wanted to sell me
cigars "my mama makes." It was touching but I maintained a hard
heart and walked on. They didn't seem to mind. They continued their game of
tag on the cobbled stone street. Viewpoint - *Cuban Children Spared The Misery Of
Youngsters Around The World Radio
www.radiohc.org/Distributions/Radio_Havana_English/.2001/2001_jan/Radio_Havana_Cuba-05_January_2001 [accessed
19 September 2011] [scroll down] In All material used herein
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