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Healthy Babies and Misleading Numbers From Cuba

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Healthy Babies and Misleading Numbers From Cuba
A Cuban mother holds her baby as she visits the El Cobre church in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, on Sept. 19, 2015. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Ronald J. Rychlak
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For years, we have been told that Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than the United States. In other words, their babies survive at a higher rate than American babies.

Ronald J. Rychlak
Ronald J. Rychlak
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Ronald J. Rychlak is the Jamie L. Whitten chair in law and government at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of several books, including “Hitler, the War, and the Pope,” “Disinformation” (co-authored with Ion Mihai Pacepa), and “The Persecution and Genocide of Christians in the Middle East” (co-edited with Jane Adolphe).
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