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Nature 436, 322-324 (21 July 2005) | doi:10.1038/436322a; Published online 20 July 2005

Open Innovation Challenges

Cuban science:  ¿Vive la revolución?

Jim Giles1

  1. Jim Giles is a senior reporter for Nature, based in London.

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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.

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