Issue 476

October 2014 - "The New Cuba"

• GUIDE TO THIS MONTH'S ARTICLES - OCTOBER 2014

From this month's magazine:

• Quiz: CUBA

• A new Cuba

• Cuba – the communist party and the media

• Cuba's big bet

• How to make your local police like the military

• Mexico: country profile

Web exclusives:

• PHOTO ESSAY: Cuba is changing

• PHOTO ESSAY: Hong Kong dreams of democracy

From the blogs this month:

• The problems with paying women to have your baby

• Brazil's next president has a difficult job

• Climate change. The people have the answers, not their leaders

• Can only new ideas make a sustainable future?

• Risking fjords for profit? Norway’s dirty mining story

• Terrorism wants an audience and we are helping Islamic State when we watch

• Help Kurdish secular democrats to beat Islamic State

• African farmers must prepare for climate change

READY LESSONS FROM THIS MONTH'S ARTICLES:

• READY LESSON (for Intermediate learners) : CUBA