US Blockade Hardest Hits the Blind in Cuba
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Prensa Latina, Cuba
Thursday, October 18, 2007
US Blockade Hardest Hits the Blind in Cuba
Matanzas, Cuba, Oct 18 (Prensa Latina) Difficulties with Braille machines for
blind and short of vision people and the lack of braillon paper are some of the
damages US blockade causes to Cuban special education system.
Education Minister Guillermo Diaz in the western province of Matanzas denounced
the affectations those visually disabled students of this territory bordering
the capital of the island suffer due to US embargo.
There is a lack of lecterns and reclining tables, we lack specialized pencils
and felt-tip pens, he indicated,
He also mentioned the lack of audiometers and video-voice, indispensable
machines to register hearing sharpness.
Diaz specified that due to US coercive measures Cuban blind children do not
have access to modern technologies that exist for early ages in developed
countries, mainly regarding education on computer science.
The same happens to the physically crippled, who must be transferred to the
school Solidarity with Panama in Havana.
The director recalled US blockade, since the first regulations US
administrations has implemented since 1963, was not limited to prevent the
economic and financial commercial relations.
It was in addition aimed at preventing the economic and social development of
the country and special education teaching figures between the hardest hit
sectors.
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