Cuba

Cuba: From AIDS, Dengue, And Ebola To COVID-19

April 15, 2020 Don Fitz, Green Social Thought. Create! COVID-19, Cuba, Health Care, Pandemic

Preparing for a pandemic requires understanding that a change in the relationship between people is primary and the production of things is secondary and flows from social factors. Investors in profit-based medicine cannot comprehend this concept. Nothing could exemplify it more clearly than Cuba’s response to the corona virus (COVID-19). The US dawdled for months before reacting. Cuba’s preparation for COVID-19 began on January 1, 1959. On that day, over sixty years before the pandemic, Cuba laid the foundations for what would become the discovery of novel drugs, bringing patients to the island, and sending medical aid abroad. For twenty years before the 1959 revolution, Cuban doctors were divided between those who saw medicine as a way to make money and those who grasped the necessity of bringing medical care to the country’s poor, rural, and black populations.

Cuban Medical Aid In Italy Shows Positive Results

April 10, 2020 Telesur English. Create! COVID-19, Cuba, International Solidarity, Italy

According to Dr. Carlos Pérez Díaz, head of the Cuban medical brigade in Italian territory, 12 of the 36 affected by the virus in Lombardy have already recovered. Perez Diaz explained that the Cuban medical team received 16 cases on the first day of work. These patients came from the Intensive Care Unit of the Crema Hospital in the Lombardy region. According to his statement to the Cuban press, the medical brigade, as of April 3, had served 428 people. Of those infected with COVID-19, 5 were transferred to intensive care at the hospital. Only one of those infected died. Among other information, Perez Diaz explained the order of work of the doctors and the establishment of shifts that the team carries out. Rendering to his statements, the Cuban medical mission intends to fulfill the task of saving lives, a mission that the Cuban doctors demonstrated to "the high degree of morale, firm, and willing."

Inhumanity Unbound: No Help From The EU Or US, While China And Cuba Provide Aid

March 26, 2020 Staff, Zzs-blg.blogspot.com Educate! China, COVID-19, Cuba, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Revisionism

Nothing exposes the hypocrisy, arrogance, and selfishness of capitalism and its backers like a major threat or catastrophe. Three hundred Chinese doctors began arriving in Italy on Wednesday, March 18 to help the local effort against the coronavirus (Fifty-two health professionals also arrived from socialist Cuba last week). In addition, PRChina (PRC) is sending testing kits and protective clothing. PRC has sent kits and gear to Spain, Greece, and Poland as well.

Cuba And The Concept Of Community Of Nations

March 21, 2020 Bill Hackwell, Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau Educate! Coronavirus COVID-19, Cuba, Solidarity

Some years ago I was talking to a Cuban doctor about what a remarkable achievement it was that Cuba was able to eliminate Malaria in 1973. He took the discussion in stride and said that it didn’t mean much until we eradicate Malaria in the entire world. Today Cuba is proving once again that their view of health and battling diseases is one that is global in scope and despite living under the unilateral 60-year-old US blockade, with additional sanctions coming their way daily...

Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, Bolsonaro’s Brazil Begs For Cuban Doctors – After Expelling Them

March 21, 2020 Ben Norton, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Brazil, COVID-19, Cuba, Latin America, Pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has overwhelmed the health infrastructure of countries around the world. Desperate to contain the deadly virus, hard-hit countries, including even rich European nations like Italy and Britain, have reached out for expert medical help from Cuba, China, and Venezuela. Even Brazil, currently under the control of a far-right administration that has joined the US in demonizing Cuba’s socialist government...

Cuba’s Contribution To Combating COVID-19

March 18, 2020 Helen Yaffe, Blog.yalebooks.com Educate! Coronavirus COVID-19, Cuba, Health Care

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 the Chinese National Health Commission...

Cuba Update: British Cruise Ship With COVID-19 Cases To Dock In Cuba

March 18, 2020 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Educate! Coronavirus COVID-19, Cuba, United Kingdom (UK)

The ship MS Braemar has been desperately searching for a place to dock after multiple countries have denied it assistance. Cuba will allow a British cruise ship stranded in the Caribbean to dock with at least five cases of Covid-19 on board, after multiple countries in the region denied its assistance. In the last few hours, the British ship MS Braemar has been desperately searching for a place to dock...

A Case Study Of Corporate Media Disinformation

March 15, 2020 Stansfield Smith, Dissident Voice. Educate! Cuba, Media, Propaganda, Regime Change

Some alternative media have exposed the US government and its corporate media fake news reporting on Russian “election interference,” on Venezuela, the war on Syria, China’s Xinjiang and Hong Kong, Nicaragua, Palestine, among others. One of the longest running media disinformation campaigns has been directed at Cuba, well covered in Keith Bolender’s Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba.1 This thoroughly documented work is a good antidote to the constant anti-Cuba disinformation we are subjected to, which inevitably influences all of us. According to well-known Goebbels quote, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it” — true, but actually a lie that Goebbels ever said this.

Bernie Sanders Was Right About The Cuban Literacy Campaign

March 4, 2020 Catherine Murphy, Truthout.org Educate! Cuba, Electoral Politics, History, Revisionism

The corporate media have long been looking for ways to discredit Bernie Sanders, and they settled on a surprising statement he made in the 1980s during his tenure as mayor of Burlington when he said, “We have a lot to learn from Cuba.” Now, they have latched onto a statement he made about Cuba during an interview on “60 Minutes” after winning the Nevada caucuses: “We’re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba but you know, it’s unfair to simply say everything is bad,” Sanders said.

Chinese Doctors Are Using Cuban Antivirals Against Coronavirus

February 11, 2020 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Educate! Coronavirus, Cuba, Medicine

The Recombinant Interferon Alpha 2B (IFNrec), an antiviral produced by the Cuban biotech industry, is being used by Chinese doctors to treat patients infected by the 2019-nCoV coronavirus, which has affected more than 28,000 people and has killed 564 patients worldwide.

Fifty-Eight Years Later, Cuba Continues To Resist U.S. Blockade

February 8, 2020 Enrique Moreno Gimeranez, En.granma.cu Resist! Blockades, Cuba, US Imperialism

The blockade is real and has lasted more than five decades. Generations of Cubans have suffered its consequences. Its impact is felt in all sectors of society and constitutes a flagrant violation of the human rights of our people, an act of genocide and of economic warfare, the main obstacle to our development, violating international law, the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter and the principles of free trade.

Cuba Is Testing Products Against Cancer, Alzheimer’s And Parkinson’s Disease

January 31, 2020 By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com Create! Cuba, Health Care

While demonized in the United States, the Cuban government has built a comprehensive nationalized healthcare system based on preventative medicine, rather than the curative model the U.S. employs The Cuban government has announced that it is testing new medical products against a range of chronic illnesses, including cancer, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. The Caribbean country has become a hotspot for pharmaceutical research, having already developed techniques that eliminate the transmission of HIV and syphilis between mothers and children. It was not revealed which types of cancer government scientists are testing against, but they have already developed a lung cancer vaccine, skin cancer medicine and new, minimally invasive techniques in esophageal cancer surgery.

Cuban President Says Concessions To US Would Lead Nowhere

January 23, 2020 Andrea Rodriguez, Apnews.com Educate! Cuba, Foreign Relations, Trump Administration, United States

LAS TUNAS, Cuba (AP) — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said he does not believe the Trump administration would drop sanctions on the island in exchange for concessions from his government. The Trump administration says it has been tightening sanctions on Cuba in recent months in order to starve the island’s communist government of cash and energy supplies and force it to end support for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

61 Years Strong: Cuba’s Revolution Lives On Despite Blockade

January 11, 2020 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Create! Blockades, Cuba, US Imperialism

A day that will forever live in the hearts and minds of free men and women around the world, Jan. 1, 1959 marked the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, as the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista ended under the leadership of Fidel Castro, Ernesto Che Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos, and Raul Castro, among others. And on its 61st anniversary, the ideals of socialist society and state live on despite an illegal and brutal blockade installed by the United States in 1962 to undermine the project in the Caribbean Island, a policy which has been bolstered by current U.S. President Donald Trump.

Cuba Is Ready For An Eventual Diplomatic Rupture With Washington

December 17, 2019 Staff, Cubadebate, translation, Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau Educate! Cuba, Foreign Relations

The Cuban government is ready for an eventual rupture of diplomatic relations with Washington, but “we don’t want it,” Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Director General for the United States of the Foreign Ministry, told AFP. After months of tensions between the two countries, “we must be aware that this could get even worse,” because “the people who are in charge of U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere today are people with very extreme and aggressive behaviors and postulations toward our country,” he warns.

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