Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What goes on inside the factory is a complicated process with many steps. If you arrive on campus with religious faith, it will be surgically removed. The traditional values that your families worked so hard to instill in you will be excised as easily as your tonsils...
...Fidel and the older generation, who are proud of the superior education and health system handed down to their children, to leave is to break faith with the revolution. "Tell my son I'm fine," says Teodomira Rodriguez, standing in the doorway of her small pensioner's apartment in the Vedado section of Havana. The 62-year-old widow said goodbye to her two sons last month: Rafael, 34, died at sea; Pedro, 32, survived but was hospitalized in Miami with dehydration and blisters after six days afloat. "They left because of the economic problems," she says...
Considering that monthly government rations barely provide enough food for two weeks and a month's salary buys just one chicken on the black market, it is surprising how many Cubans still have faith in Castro's revolution. Domestic production is nearly nil. Unemployment is estimated at 20% to 25% among the young. Absenteeism from work is officially 10% but actually much higher...
...fsquared: Everyone concerned has been quite remarkable, say I. I check this topic every day for a little boost to my faith in my fellow humans...
...many Cubans are still loyal to the revolution -- if not the man -- that they believe gave them 30 good years. According to people on the street and in their homes in Havana and its environs, it is mainly the economic deprivations of the past four that have shaken their faith and their pride. Every Cuban must work out his own calculation for the moment when devotion turns to desperation, when the hardships become too much to bear, when the natural desire to stay is overpowered by the need to go. This summer that moment came for thousands -- especially the young...