CNN puts positive shine on Cuba's youth labor practices under Castro

khanna | March 5, 2009
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In a May 26, 2000 report, CNN quoted just four sources — two 13-year-old girls, a camp official, and a father — all of whom praised Cuba's practice of sending young teenagers to work as forced farm labor. Newman declared the program instills "respect" for "hard work" and that while students "say at first they were homesick," they soon boast that they "are having a great time"...