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This article first appearted at NACLA.org.

I arrived in Cuba fifteen days before Barack Obama. Already his name was on everyone’s lips, and in Havana—or parts of it—the preparations were obvious. Roads were being re-asphalted, buildings repainted, windows replaced. Cubans told me about billboard changes, as some of the more combative, anti-imperialist ones gave way to softer ones: Haz bien y no mires a quien (roughly, “Do the right thing no matter who the other person is”) or Salud para todos (“Good health for all”)... Читать дальше...

Flint residents knew there was a serious problem with their water when it came out of the tap brown and foul-smelling after the city of Flint changed its source from Lake Huron to the Flint River two years ago. They didn’t know, however, that lead levels were so high that the Environmental Protection Agency could classify it as hazardous waste. It took Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality more than 17 months to acknowledge the problem. As a result... Читать дальше...