Free Medical Education at Cuba's Tower of Babel

Training 13,000 students from around the world free of charge is the main objective on a beach outside Havana, where Cuba's renowned international program of medical education is located. "Studying medicine was my life's dream. But for a poor family like mine, that was impossible," 18-year-old Merady Gomez of Honduras told AFP at the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM). "Here, I am making my dream come true, and I have high hopes of being able to ...