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Granted, Mexican doctors and health officials understandably imagined early on that they were simply seeing a late surge of flu-season activity or, at worst, an unusual spate of pneumonia cases. But the faulty or tardy diagnoses that marked those early moments of the Mexican epidemic reflects what Oswaldo Medina, head of the Mexican Epidemiological Association, told reporters this week is an inadequately funded and bureaucratically sclerotic diagnosis infrastructure. It's one in which the private and public components, he added, too often miscommunicate, when they communicate at all. "Identification of diseases," Medina said, "comes too late...
...violation. There is also fundamental agreement in both Cuban and Catholic doctrine about caring for the weak and underprivileged. Still, the relationship has its limits amidst the government control of information and silencing of opposition movements, which have often included Catholic intellectuals and clergy. The island's leading dissident, Oswaldo Paya, is a devout Catholic and is often referred to as the Lech Walesa of Cuba. In December, Cuban security agents stormed a church in Santiago, beating and arresting a group of human rights activists who had gathered to protest the imprisonment of three other pro-democracy dissidents...
...attaching his Administration to Cuba's dissidents so publicly, Bush may actually compromise the position of the Castro critics who remain on the island, whose credibility often rests on being seen as a movement independent of the Miami exiles. In past interviews with TIME and other media groups, Oswaldo Paya, an engineer who is the most prominent of Cuba's dissidents, says he is uncomfortable whenever the White House tries to co-opt him and his colleagues. He says it simply makes their goals more difficult to achieve...
...González comes to mind), the outsize personalities (Hugo Chávez of Venezuela is but the most recent example) and the long-running tragedy that is Haiti. He has chronicled the rise of the NAFTA generation in Mexico, the cocaine guerrillas in Colombia and the crusade of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya as he struggled for a national referendum on Castro's rule. We're delighted that for this work, Tim is one of this year's recipients of the Maria Moors Cabot award, which honors reporting about Latin America and is the oldest international award in journalism...
What effect would millions of visitors from the citadel of capitalism have on a communist state of 11 million people? Those in Congress who want to dump the travel ban argue that exposing Cubans more to Americans would promote change on the island. Oswaldo Paya, Cuba's leading dissident, finds that view naive. "I'm all for the right of Americans to travel here," he says, "but please don't think Cuba will be democratized by people coming to dance salsa and smoke cigars...