Cuba Sends Doctors, the US Sends Sanctions
The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism “human trafficking” — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South.
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People First: Cuba’s State Plan to Confront Climate Change
In 2017, the Cuban government approved the ‘State Plan to Confront Climate Change’, known in Cuba as ‘Tarea Vida’ (Life Task). With a projection up to the year 2100, ‘Tarea Vida’ is the world’s only truly long-term state plan to address climate change.
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Cuba Accelerates Vaccine Drive
Cuba has now become the first country in the world to roll out Covid-19 vaccines for children as young as two, and is among the few countries worldwide to be vaccinating under 12-year-olds. By the end of the year the island will be among the first countries in the world to fully vaccinate its population.
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How Cuba Survived
For decades, commentators predicted that Cuba’s socialist model couldn’t survive without the USSR or Fidel Castro. They were wrong – and even in the face of continued sanctions, its unique system endures.
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Cuba’s Contribution to Combating COVID-19
Helen Yaffe COVID-19 surged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019, and by January 2020 it had hit Hubei province like a tidal wave, swirling over China and rippling out overseas. The Chinese state rolled into action to combat the spread and to care for those infected. Among the thirty medicines…
