{"id":1805,"date":"2011-04-20T15:51:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T15:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2017-12-27T14:35:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T14:35:12","slug":"cuba-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/cuba-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Bound"},"content":{"rendered":"

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900 thousand children die every month because of poverty: not one of them is Cuban.<\/span><\/p>\n

200 million children in the world sleep on the streets today. None of them is Cuban.<\/span><\/p>\n

250 million children under 13 have to work in order to survive. None of them is Cuban.<\/span><\/p>\n

More than one million children are forced into prostitution and tens of thousands have been victims of human organ trafficking. None of them is Cuban.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2014<\/td>\n\u2013UNICEF, 2009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From:   900 thousand children die every month because of poverty: not one of them is Cuban. 200 million children in the world sleep on the streets today. None of them is Cuban. 250 million children under 13 have to work in order to survive. None of them is Cuban. 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