July 20, 2001
A Medical School in Cuba Trains Doctors for Poor Countries
Free program educates students from African, Latin America, and the United States
Nolvia Aguilar is not a Communist. But after two years of all-expenses-paid medical study in Cuba, the 22-year-old Honduran says President Fidel Castro is doing at least one thing right.
"Cuba's medical system is famous throughout the world. And to think that that's still the case after 10 years of economic hardship. It's incredible," says Ms. Aguilar. She is one of 4,000 foreign students who are
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