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...Raúl Castro understands Charles Dickens’ reference to the best of times and the worst of times. At long last it was Raúl’s turn, as Cuba’s president, to preside over the anniversary that marked half a century at the country’s helm. Fifty years and eleven U.S. presidents ago, his brother Fidel and he led a ragtag rebel force to improbable victory in early January 1959. Yet, days before this event, it was also Raúl’s turn to preside over the session of the Cuban National...
...again in 2007 (while slightly rising in 2008) but the forecasts about the rapid aging predate these years. Why, then, was there no change sooner? Fidel Castro had the power to enact such a change but proved allergic to this and other reforms. It fell to Raúl Castro to have the guts to enact this change during his first year as president and to do so on the same year when the world economy collapsed, hitting Cuba hard as it has other countries—the worst of times...
...Raúl A. Carrillo ’10 is a social studies concentrator in Lowell House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
...migration does so on a wider scale. The moral and economic interests of the majority of citizens in the developed and developing world are aligned, and it shouldn’t require cosmopolitan ethics to unite and untie the hands of humans to work where they please. Raúl A. Carrillo ’10 is a social studies concentrator in Lowell House. His column appears regularly...
...Raúl A. Carrillo ’10 is a social studies concentrator in Lowell House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...