June 15, 2001

Distance Education Plays Unusual Role in Cuba's Literate but Desolate Society

By MARION LLOYD

It's Friday night, and Havana's upscale Prado y Neptuno bistro is packed with well-heeled tourists and theatergoers puffing on Cuban cigars.

It might be a chic restaurant anywhere in Latin America. Except that rather than

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showing the local soccer match, the

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