By Andrea Rodriguez for The Washington Post, April 3, 2020 HAVANA — For two years the Trump administration has been trying to stamp out one of Cuba’s signature programs __ state-employed medical […]
Cuban Doctors Fighting Coronavirus Globally, Defying US
Cuba’s Medical Internationalism
A Webinar Led by Dr. Howard Ehrman, MD, MPH 7:00 PM Thursday, April 16, 2020 Dr Ehrman is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine, did his residency at […]
Cuba Deserves Relief from US Sanctions
Humanitarian deterrence of the virus, not Cold War–era regime change, should be the top priority of US foreign policy. By Peter Kornbluh for The Nation MARCH 31, 2020 On March 25, as a […]
Meet the Americans Studying Medicine on Cuba’s Dime
Written by Alan Macleod for MintPressnews.com, March 31. 2020 The Cuban government has been paying Americans through a little known program to study medicine in order to return to the United States […]
What Cuba Can Teach Us About Health Care
The country’s universal, low-cost health care system works well. Written by Sara Van Gelder for YesMagazine.org September 19, 2017 It was a rare moment in the health care debate. A Trump supporter, Drea […]
The world rediscovers Cuban medical internationalism
Cuban medicine can help people worldwide–if it is permitted Written by Helen Yaffe for Le Monde Diplomatique, 30 March 2020 Just weeks ago, in late February 2020, US Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders was vilified […]
Bernie Sanders & The Cuban Literacy Campaign
This article, written by Catherine Murphy and published on Truthout on February 28, discusses the Cuban Literacy Campaign and its benefits to Cuban citizens. Ms. Murphy is the founder and director of The […]
Three experts suggest “How the Democratic candidates should talk about Cuba”
From TheHill.com, published March 4, 2020 BY MAX PAUL FRIEDMAN, PHILIP BRENNER, AND ERIC HERSHBERG, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS — 03/04/20 04:00 PM EST. THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN. The media and […]
Traveling to Cuba is Simple, Whoever Told You It’s Not is Doing it Wrong
Find original post here The appetite to explore Cuba as an American maybe akin to something like wanting a forbidden fruit, at least that’s the classic trope. But Americans have been traveling […]
How to Plan a ‘Support for the Cuban People’ Trip
Find original article here This week, the Trump administration announced that they were “cancelling” the Obama administration’s policy of “easing of restrictions on travel and trade” with Cuba, and signing into law […]
