Nov 15, 2017
MAGIC IN BARRANQUILLA: MY CUBAN LOVES
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2017/11/magic-in-barranquilla-my-cuban-loves.html
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Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
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These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Nov 15, 2017
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM A PARQUE NEAR MY HOUSE IN VEDADO, LA HABANA, CUBA
It is 5 pm on this Friday evening, 10 November 2017. The sun has eased its strength and squalls and the rain seemed to have left for elsewhere. I am…
Sep 15, 2017
A LOVE POEM TO THE RESILIENCY OF CUBAN PEOPLE SUNG BY PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE
I had already left France and Belgium when the storm IRMA was pending and when I reached Doha in Qatar, it was evident that there would be no flight to…
Sep 15, 2017
CUBA: THE LAND OF AFFECTIONS
The source of my affections, the incredible fountain of love and tenderness, is no doubt, my little island of Cuba. 11 of the provinces in Cuba suffered some form of…
Aug 15, 2017
CUBAN ENDOCRINE SOCIETY INVITES YOU TO THEIR ANNUAL MEETING. NOV 8-10, LA HABANA, CUBA
An excellent opportunity to Visit CUBA! An opportunity to meet Cuban Clinicians and Researchers. Topics covered are Endocrine Diseases as well as Reproductive Health in women with Diabetes. I am…
Aug 15, 2017
CUBA IT IS TIME TO VISIT THE TREASURE OF CUBA: ITS PEOPLE
It is a great pleasure for me to show my favourite country to visiting people. In the last year, I have had multiple visitors including some friends from my university…
Jun 15, 2017
TRAVELS IN MAY 2017 AN EXTREMELY GOOD MONTH OF TRAVEL USA CUBA EUROPE MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA
31 May 2017 The last day of the month of May, a month of excesses. 15 flights all in First Class or Business Class North America, Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the…
Jun 15, 2017
TRAVELS IN THE MONTH OF MAY 2017 : MEETING WITH EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: THE CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO QATAR
I have to do more justice to this meeting, however short it was, with the Cuban Ambassador to Qatar..I have to write in detail later.. except to say that HE…
Jun 15, 2017
Voicesfrom Cuba 16 June And Empty
VOICES FROM CUBA 16 JUNE AND THE EMPTY BOTTLE THAT MAKES TOO MUCH NOISE Trump announced some noises to the gracious changes by Obama to the failed Cuba policy of…
Jun 15, 2017
VOICES FROM CUBA JUNE 14 2017 HAPPY BIRTHDAY COMANDANTE CHE GUEVARA
VOICES FROM CUBA: 14 JUNE 2017 Happy Birthday Comandante CHE I left Havana on a night of that familiar downpours where the sky and the landscape become inseparable, my faithful…
Mar 15, 2017
ADIOS Y BIENVENIDOS CUBA HELLOS AND GOODBYES
Adios y Bienvenidos CUBA Hellos and Goodbyes One of the principles of Yogic Philosophy is the Lack of Attachment: attachment to objects, places and people that binds a person. It…
Mar 15, 2017
NEW FRIENDS IN LA HABANA, CUBA
If you cannot make friends in Havana, you better get yourself checked out, something is wrong! It is such a friendly country with such approachable people, such an educated country…
Mar 15, 2017
A SUBDUED ARRIVAL IN THE UNITED STATES FROM CUBA
Normally I am very happy when my flight lands in Miami, and I recollect incidents associated with various spots I can recognize from the air. The main purpose of my…
Feb 15, 2017
FALSE INDIANS OF CUBA
I had presented at a Latin American Congress of Academics my findings about the FALSE TAINOS of Baracoa. People who have some genetic admixture of Native Blood in Cuba (estimated…
Feb 15, 2017
Now That Cuba Is Open, Americans Aren’t Going
Now That Cuba Is Open, Americans Aren’t Going an interesting article published in Bloomberg News https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-17/now-that-cuba-is-open-americans-aren-t-going
Feb 15, 2017
WARNING TO VISITORS TO HAVANA AND CUBA
WARNING TO VISITORS TO CUBA Recently there was an article in the American Media to avoid certain places in Cuba... and it included the tourist ghetto of Varadero, the false…
Jan 15, 2017
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM HAVANA, CUBA
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2017/01/happy-new-year-from-havana-cuba.html
Dec 15, 2016
LIMINALITY OF CHARACTER OF CUBANS IN GENERAL : HAVANA AND MIAMI
When they talk about OPPRESSION or MARGINALIZATION the outsiders especially those with conservative point of view in Miami and elsewhere are thinking of the Politics in CUBA. Most people who…