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  Life Expectancy: The US and Cuba in the Time of Covid

  By: Don Fitz

  Recent data shows that between 2019 and 2021, life expectancy (LE) in the US plunged almost three years while for Cuba it edged up 0.2 years
• While Cuba Deals with Blazing Fire, the U.S. Watches and Waits

  By: Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan

  This latest disaster - the largest oil fire in Cuba’s history - comes at a time when Cuba is currently undergoing an energy crisis due to soaring global fuel costs
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  Biden Should Remove Cuba from the Infamous State Sponsors of Terrorism List

  By: Medea Benjamin

  Removing Cuba from the terrorist list would facilitate the island's ability to receive loans, access critical foreign assistance, and benefit from humanitarian aid
• Crisis in Cuba Requires End of US Blockade Now

  By: Tom Whitney

  U.S. public opinion favors ending the blockade
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  How Cuba Is Eradicating Child Mortality and Banishing the Diseases of the Poor

  By: Vijay Prashad

  To move from 59 infant deaths out of every 1,000 live births to no infant deaths in the matter of a few decades is an extraordinary feat
• “Peoples must have the right to live their own story, their own life.”

  By: Aleida Guevara

  Keynote speech at the Summit at the End of the World by Aleida Guevara, revolutionary doctor and daughter of Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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  For Biden’s Summit of the Americas, Obama’s Handshake With Raúl Castro Shows the Way

  By: Medea Benjamin

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• 5+ million people march on May Day in Cuba, a country of 11 million

  By: Evan Brannan

  Cuba’s May Day parade is historically the largest in the world, and this year it came back with a roar in one of the largest turnouts seen in years
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  Cuba Prepares for Disaster

  By: Don Fitz

  For humanity to survive, a global epiphany rejecting consumer capitalism must become a material force in energy production
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  Bank Blocks Donations Supporting Cuban Effort to Vaccinate World

  By: Kenny Stancil

  "A European bank, established in the Netherlands, has decided to put the interests of the U.S. government above the lives of millions of people."
• Cuba now exporting Covid vaccines

  By: Andreas Knobloch

  After immunizing its own population, Cuba’s own developed vaccines are to be marketed internationally
• Cuba’s Vaccine Could End Up Saving Millions of Lives

  By: Branko Marcetic

  Thanks to its public biotech sector and its government’s deep commitment to public health, Cuba is now the only low-income country to have made its own COVID vaccine, and it's poised to help millions around the world
• Cuba: Five Years After Fidel

  By: Rosa Miriam Elizalde

  In five years, particularly in the last two years, incendiary slang has been unleashed on social media and international media networks, whose target is not only the Cuban government. They want to erase any trace of Fidel Castro
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  Cubans More Excited About School Reopening Than Regime Change

  By: Medea Benjamin

  “The US government misread Cuba when it decided to invest so heavily in trying to instigate insurrection. We Cubans want to improve our country & move forward, not back to the times when we were the friendly playground of US capital, corruption & ambition.”
• Why Is the U.S. Fueling the November 15 Cuba Protests?

  By: Rosa Miriam Elizalde

  The conservative ghost of the far-right that travels the world and arrives in Cuba is not what it seems or what is visible to the naked eye
• How U.S. Interference in Cuba Creates a False Picture of Its Society

  By: Manolo De Los Santos

  The attempt on Raúl Castro’s life is one of many projects by the U.S. government to overthrow the Cuban Revolution, including 638 attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro and the invasion at the Bay of Pigs in 1961
• Sanctions Didn’t Help Cubans, Iranians or Venezuelans. They Won’t Help Afghans

  By: Natasha Hakimi Zapata

  Economic punishment is taking a brutal toll during the pandemic
• The Money That Never Arrives in Cuba

  By: Rosa Miriam Elizalde

  The U.S. policy relating to remittances goes against all logic
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  Using Cuba’s Protests as a Chance to Denounce the Left

  By: Aviva Chomsky

  The recent protests in Cuba provoked a predictable slew of blanket denunciations of “the Left.” But we can’t understand what’s going on in Cuba without looking at the U.S. role
• A political x-ray for possible dialogue in Cuba

  By: Jesús Arboleya

  One consequence of U.S. harassment has been the objective limitation of the exercise of democracy in the country
• Cuba’s Crisis, Our Response

  By: Margaret Randall

  Let us help Cuba become what its revolution has promised rather than try to mold it to some specious image in which profit obliterates justice and equality
• Cuba at a Crossroads?

  By: Jamie Medwell

  The US embargo against Cuba continues to have a devastating impact, but recent protests also highlight the need for urgent domestic reform
• The Damaging “Middle Ground” Stance on Cuba

  By: Mikael Wolfe

  In the wake of the J-11 protests last month, U.S.-based experts should focus on changing U.S. policy towards Cuba
• Why Cubans Protested on July 11

  By: Samuel Farber

  Is this the beginning of the end of fear in Cuba?
• A Tale of Two Countries

  By: Greg Godels

  Haiti and Cuba have the same enemies. They are victimized by the same opportunistic politicians, the same jaded journalists, and the same spies, who all work to maintain or turn both into neo-colonies