What鈥檚 changed in Cuba in the year since the protests?
University of MiamiUniversity of Miami experts versed about the Caribbean nation address what has transpired since the July 11, 2021, anti-government protests.
University of Miami experts versed about the Caribbean nation address what has transpired since the July 11, 2021, anti-government protests.
For the first time in more than 50 years, a joint team of Cuban and U.S. field scientists studied the water quality of twenty-five Cuban rivers and found little damage after centuries of sugarcane production. They also found nutrient pollution in Cuba鈥檚 rivers much lower than the Mississippi River. Cuba鈥檚 shift to conservation agriculture after the collapse of the Soviet Union鈥攁nd reduced use of fertilizers on cropland鈥攎ay be a primary cause.
Nearly five hundred years later, the fleet鈥檚 final resting place remains undiscovered. But an international collaboration of underwater archaeologists is conducting the first modern-day search for the scuttled vessels, as well as 16 others that Cort茅s sank a year later.
Silvia Pedraza, University of Michigan professor of sociology and American culture, has spent decades researching the exodus of Cubans over the half century since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution.
At least 21 government employees who were exposed to unusual noises while serving at the United States Embassy in Havana, Cuba, show effects similar to traumatic brain injury, according to preliminary study results published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Columbus State University is now accepting applications for its first study abroad experience in Cuba. The spring break trip is scheduled for March 16 鈥 24, 2018.
With a healthy streak of activism, tempered by a keen interest in helping others, it鈥檚 totally in Jose Medina鈥檚 character to be a change agent. Trained in social work and bioethics, the second-year medical student 鈥 who was recently elected to the Association of American Medical Colleges as a student delegate 鈥 has his sight on specializing in family medicine so he can provide health care to those in need.