Latest Cuba

• Yaffe: Cuba Libre to be COVID-Libre: Five Vaccines and Counting…

  In 2020 Cuba confirmed a total of 12,225 coronavirus cases and 146 deaths in a population of 11.2 million, among the lowest rates in the Western Hemisphere
• Frederick: Cuba’s Contributions in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic

  The Cuban Revolution shows that when resources are distributed equitably, health outcomes previously unimaginable are possible
• Sánchez: Trigger words and the duty of revolutionaries in the Internet era

  Using, with no evidence whatsoever, the words censorship or repression, or the expression "act of repudiation," is enough to override the necessity of providing data and arguments
• Geglia: Cuba Working on a ‘People’s Vaccine’

  The US and the world should get behind it
• Whitney Jr.: Cuba develops COVID-19 vaccines, takes socialist approach

  Socialist Cuba’s production of four vaccines is grounded in science, in a dedication to saving the lives of all Cubans, and in international solidarity
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  Fitz: Do you remember Cuba’s dedication to Angola?

  Cuban blood left its stamp on the conscience of the world after the Angolan Wars of 1975-1988. Corporate politicians are united in their desire for us to ignore this reality
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  Benjamin: The Trump Administration’s Parting Outrage Against Cuba

  The real motive behind this move is to offer a parting gift to the Cuban exile community and its allies that have been loyal supporters of the Trump administration
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  Scipes: Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution

  Review of Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution, by Don Fitz (Monthly Review Press)
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  Fitz: How Do Medical Students Get More Experience in the US than Cuba?

  Students who study medicine in Cuba get a lot less practice in handling gunshot wounds than do those who study in the US
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  Fitz: Medicare-for-All Is a Beginning, Not the End Point

  What Can We Learn from 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