Paul Becker, Portside

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Paul Becker is a retired teacher, currently a freelance writer, who recently returned from a visit to Cuba. Portside aims to provide varied material of interest to people on the left that will help them to interpret the world, and to change it. David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble

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The Critical Choices Facing Cuba Today

By Paul Becker, Portside Guest Commentator

Among the great accomplishments of the Cuban revolution have been the great strides made in the education of its entire people. Education is completely free from primary school through university. Cuba today has a literacy rate of over 96 percent, putting it at the top, along with Argentina and Uruguay, in all of Latin America.

His voice was filled with emotion and he gestured emphatically as he told the story. He was speaking of a young woman he knew in his…

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