Pinar del Río
Region in Cuba.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| How I Learned to Understand the World | Hans Rosling | subject | The epidemic’s heartland, where Rosling’s team interviews farmers and village women, notes that small private farms had few cases while plantation workers were hit, and learns about the black market t |
How I Learned to Understand the World — Hans Rosling
Source: How I Learned to Understand the World · Readwise highlight
Most of the cases had been found in Pinar del Río, a tobacco-growing province.
- Role: subject
- In the book: The epidemic’s heartland, where Rosling’s team interviews farmers and village women, notes that small private farms had few cases while plantation workers were hit, and learns about the black market through his daughter Anna’s nights out in salsa bars. About ten thousand cases are noted there.
- Why it matters: The place where the epidemic is traced to a monotonous diet after the Soviet collapse; the field context drives the finding.