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“I had ten brothers and sisters. We were so poor,” relates Algimiro Ortíz in the honeyed afternoon light flooding the Seniors’ Center in Cruce de los Baños. “School wasn’t an option—there wasn’t a school here—only work; I began picking coffee when I was 11. When somebody got sick, we had to carry them on our shoulders to the hospital in Contramaestre, 16 miles away,” Ortíz, now in his 70s, told MEDICC Review.

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17. Interview with Dr Pablo Reyes, Municipal Health Director, Tercer Frente, 2011 Dec 12.

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