This is Joyce Malanda from Raleigh, North Carolina. It is amazing that she is the subject this week of a major article in the mainstream U. S. media...AMAZING because it is a positive article related to Cuba while such a thing is normally not allowed in the U. S. media. Permit me to EXPLAIN.
While Gallup and other respected polls are currently revealing that most Americans "don't trust the U. S. media," there are still exceptions. For the past 32 years Richard Stradling, now at the Raleigh News & Observer, has been a great journalist and top editor. His Cuba-positive article regarding Cuba this week has been picked up by the Kansas City Star and other mainstream U. S. newspapers. AMAZING!!!!
After Joyce Malanda from Raleigh gets her medical degree from Cuba, free-of-charge courtesy of Cuba, all Cuba asks of her is that she return to the area she came from -- which happens to be a poor section of the rich U. S. city of Raleigh -- for at least five years. Joyce becomes the 42nd American medical student currently studying in Havana, and over 200 such Americans have previously graduated successfully in Cuba and returned to the United States...to cities such as Philadelphia, Los Angeles, etc. So, this was an interesting article this week that tells an important story...and because it sheds a positive glow on the island of Cuba, such reports indeed are rare in the U. S. media.
And so...Richard Stradling at the Raleigh News & Observer shows us this week that there are still some great journalists within the bowels of the U. S. democracy that we can still trust. He had enough integrity and courage this week to tell us why Joyce Malanda is leaving Raleigh to study medicine in Havana, proving that he is a rare jewel. The U. S. needs more JOURNALISTS like him...for the USA's sake, not Cuba's.
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