The shortage of technicians, of qualified resources, is the most maddening deficit and the sharpest prod of all the shortages to be found in an underdeveloped society, in a country with a backward economy. The lack of technicians, of qualified human resources, constitutes the most complex, thorniest problem, the one that hits the hardest, in an underdeveloped country. —Oswaldo Dorticos, President, Cuba, 1972
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Messmer, W. Cuban agriculture and personnel recruitment policy. Studies in Comparative International Development 19, 3–28 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02686502
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