Latest Cuba

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  Fitz: A Statue of Hatuey

  It is critical to realize that statues which go up are at least as important as the ones that come down. Perhaps the best nominee for a new statue is Hatuey
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  Benjamin: Why Cuban doctors should receive the Nobel Peace Prize

  Due to Cuba’s extraordinary commitment to humanity, to public health and to internationalism, a group of human rights organizations and social movements across the world have launched a campaign to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Cuba’s Henry Reeve medical brigade
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  Fitz: How Che Guevara Taught Cuba to Confront COVID-19

  Che’s vision to redesign medical care so that it would encompass Cuba and extend beyond its borders laid the foundation for its eclipsing US corporate medicine today
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  Emersberger: US Campaign Against Cuba’s Medical Brigades Targets Healthcare, Not ‘Forced Labor’

  According to UNICEF figures, Cuba has since 2000 consistently maintained a lower child mortality rate than the US
• Castro Espín: Sexual rights and emancipation in Cuba

  The 1959 revolution launched a project of social justice and equity, an event that would change policies regarding gender and sexualities, among profound, radical transformations in the nation and its culture
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  Fitz: Can We Simultaneously Oppose Bayer/Monsanto’s Biotechnology and Support Cuba’s Interferon Alpha 2B?

  Making a distinction between the biotechnology of Bayer/Monsanto and Cuba requires understanding the difference between bioimperialism and biosolidarity. Imperialism subdues. Biosolidarity empowers
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  Fitz: Cuba: From AIDS, Dengue, and Ebola to COVID-19

  A look at the transformation of Cuban medical care following the 1959 revolution and how the new health system coped with HIV/AIDS, dengue and Ebola--laying the foundation for Cuba’s caring and coherent approach to COVID-19
• Pagliccia: Cuba – An Example Of Solidarity In A Time Of Crisis

  What would it be like to have foreign relations between countries based on solidarity instead of hostility? Cuba shows us that it is possible
• Kornbluh: “Humanitarian Solidarity”

  Even Under U.S. Sanctions, Cuba Sends Doctor Brigade to Italy and More
• Burgis: Cuba’s Coronavirus Response Is Putting Other Countries to Shame

  Cuba is caricatured by the Right as a totalitarian hellhole. But its response to the coronavirus pandemic — from sending doctors to other countries to pioneering anti-viral treatments to converting factories into mask-making machines — is putting other countries, even rich countries, to shame
• Serrano: Cuba in the Time of the Coronavirus

  The Cuban government, accustomed to natural disasters, noted that its 2014 legislation determines that when natural, technological and health disasters prevent employees from performing their jobs, workers shall receive their entire salaries for one month and 60% for the rest of the time their work is suspended.
• Collective: US throttles Iran & Venezuela, China, Cuba send medical teams, equipment and medicine

  China and Cuba have stepped in with practical measures at international level amidst the near-collapse health care situation in a number of capitalist countries in the face of coronavirus pandemic
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  Norton: Brazil begs for Cuban doctors – after expelling them

  Brazil’s far-right government requested the return of thousands of Cuban doctors to help fight the coronavirus. Months ago, President Jair Bolsonaro smeared the doctors as “terrorists” and expelled them
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  Glick: Would Joe and Donald Support Using Cuba Coronavirus Medicine?

  We need to push hard on those politicians and media spokespeople who put ideology above the much-needed search for the truth and a cure, which we may already have
• Yaffe: Cuba’s Contribution to Combatting COVID-19

  Cuban Interferon Alpha 2b has proven effective for viruses with characteristics similar to those of COVID-19
• Nahem: The 2019 UN Vote Against the US Blockade of Cuba

  "The United States government does not have the least moral authority to criticize Cuba or anyone else in the area of ​​human rights. We reject the repeated manipulation of this issue for political purposes"
• Block: The Venceremos Brigade at 50

  Challenging Empire, Uplifting Solidarity Since 1969
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  Cohn: Trump’s New Travel Restrictions Harm Both US and Cuban People

  Escalating his policy to economically strangle Cuba, Donald Trump has...
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  Cohn: Trump’s “Troika of Tyranny” Meddles in Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua

  Under the guise of protecting human rights, the Trump administration...
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  Feffer: What’s Behind Bolton’s Attacks on the ‘Troika of Tyranny’?

  Bolton’s broadsides against Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela hint at ambitions for much more dangerous geopolitical conflict — and nothing short of a new Cold War