Cuba's socialist science policies are producing top-notch research from scant economic resources. But, as Jim Giles reports, they have harsh consequences for scientists who do not fit in with government priorities. It's mid-afternoon in Havana's cavernous convention centre, and Cuba's leading scientists are extolling the virtues of the revolution. Cuba's vaccine programme, says one speaker, is the fruit of socialism. Another tells us that the revolutionary leaders have saved the country's environment. Behind him, and not for the first time this afternoon, the giant screen is filled with an image of the commander-in-chief, the bearded one: Fidel Castro.
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