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Cuba In Context

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Providing in-depth analysis of Cuba’s social, political, and economic landscape, highlighting perspectives often absent from mainstream narratives.

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Popular Education @populareducation.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
US sanctions on Cuba are economic warfare: • 7,000+ containers stranded • Essential aid blocked: ICU solar panels, cancer meds, water treatment • Crucial shipping lost: Sanctions scared off cargo lines • Mass suffering: Surging hunger, 100k awaiting surgery www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/w...
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Trump’s Economic Vise Leaves Cubans Desperate for Food and Medicine
The U.S. says its sanctions are not aimed at depriving Cuba of essential goods. Thousands of stranded shipping containers tell a different story.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Bloomberg, a financial newspaper of choice for the business class, is framing the Venezuela oil deal as neocolonialism. When even a publication representing the interests of global capital is using the language of anti-imperialism, that says something.
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Cuba In Context @cubaincontext.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Press Opinion Treats US Devastation of Cuba as Reason for More Devastation
Pundits strive to justify US economic warfare: If the Cuban government can’t run the country, the logic goes, then the US is right to try and bring it down.
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Cuba In Context @cubaincontext.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"The latest US sanctions make it “impossible, de facto and de jure, to maintain even minimal operational stability”, the Meliá group explained in a statement on Tuesday to the Spanish stock market regulator." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Spanish hotel chain ceases operations in Cuba under pressure from Washington
Meliá group says Donald Trump’s sanctions make it ‘impossible’ to keep any of its 34 sites open
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The U.S. has spent months pressuring developing countries like Venezuela to end their Cuban doctor programs, despite knowing many lack enough physicians to replace them. Then an earthquake strikes, exposing an under-resourced healthcare system made even less prepared for the crisis.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The media shapes public opinion by deciding which perspectives are treated as credible. A FAIR study found that coverage of Cuba centered U.S. officials and anti-government voices while giving far less attention to Cubans who emphasized the role of U.S. sanctions. fair.org/home/whose-v...
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Whose Voices Are Centered in Coverage of Cuban Crisis? A FAIR Study
The New York Times, Miami Herald and Associated Press each covered the Cuban crisis extensively, but the coverage varied dramatically across outlets.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
After failing to block a UN General Assembly debate on the U.S. embargo against Cuba, we're suddenly inundated with headlines portraying Cuba as a "National Security Threat." It's an attempt to bury the fact that the U.S. position on Cuba is overwhelmingly rejected by the international community.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The irony is remarkable. The WSJ invokes the struggle against apartheid to argue for regime change in Cuba, ignoring that the U.S. backed South Africa's apartheid govt while Cuba helped defeat it. Cuba's military intervention in Angola led to Namibia's independence & the collapse of apartheid
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Popular Education @populareducation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Italy refused U.S. pressure to end its Cuban doctor program because it has the economic and political leverage to say no. Many developing countries don't. They're forced to comply, even when it means losing doctors and leaving their own healthcare systems worse off. apnews.com/article/ital...
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An Italian region defies US pressure to end a Cuban doctors program
Cuban doctors are working in hospitals in Italy's Calabria region under a long-running program despite U.S. efforts to end it.
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Cuba In Context @cubaincontext.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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The Imperial Plunder of Cuba Has Begun
The Trump administration distressed one of Canada’s oldest mining firms, which operates a joint venture in Cuba, through blatant lawfare, apparently so a Trump-aligned oligarch could snatch up a major...
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The phrase "sanctions" sanitizes what is actually happening. In Cuba, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding. Essential medicines are becoming unavailable, infant health outcomes are worsening, and more families are struggling to secure adequate nutrition.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"Like Haiti having to pay back the “debt” to slaveowners from their lost property values after the revolution, Cuba is expected to pay for treating its assets as belonging to the people as a whole rather than belonging to a small moneyed elite." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-u.s...
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The U.S. Is Terrorizing Cuba to Make Rich Men Richer
There’s barely any pretense that Trump cares about Cuban democracy. This is about privatizing Cuba’s public assets and getting them into the hands of Trump’s cronies.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
For decades, the dominant development model imposed on poor countries has been: Open your economy to foreign capital. Sell off public assets. Export raw materials. Compete through cheap labor. Cuba pursued a different path by investing heavily in social development through healthcare & education.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"The human rights office, OHCHR, cited alarming figures: infant mortality has doubled to 9.9 per 1,000 births; childhood cancer survival rates have fallen from 85 to 65 per cent; and essential medicines are available at only around 30 per cent of normal supply levels." news.un.org/en/story/202...
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Children are dying as US sanctions push Cuba to the brink, warns UN human rights chief
Children are dying because doctors cannot access essential medicines, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said in a stark warning on Monday, calling for the immediate lifting of United States sanctions ...
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"Donald Trump could save Cuba." The headline reflects a familiar media framework: U.S. sanctions on Cuba are presented as a form of liberation, while the human costs of these sanctions are treated as secondary or ignored altogether.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
One of the most depraved aspects of U.S. policy towards Cuba is the effort to coerce developing countries into expelling Cuban doctors. Ending these programs not only punishes Cuba, but it also harms some of the world's poorest and most medically underserved people.
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Popular Education @populareducation.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"However, its best form of resistance has been not just the assertion of national sovereignty, but the creation of an alternative model of development that places human welfare and environmental concerns at its core." www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
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Cuba stands firm - Red Pepper
Cuba continues to show the world an alternative mode of development even in the face of US regime change, argues Helen Yaffe
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Popular Education @populareducation.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The Supreme Court revived a lawsuit claiming cruise lines “trafficked” confiscated Cuban property by docking in Havana. A lower court had thrown the case out because Havana Docks Corp.’s lease expired before the cruises ever operated there. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...
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Supreme Court Permits Lawsuit Over U.S. Assets Seized by Cuba in 1960
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Ray Washburne, a Trump ally with ties to U.S. military and intelligence circles, just bought control of Sherritt, a Canadian company operating in Cuba’s nickel industry. Does this signal that well connected political insiders expect Trump will definitely launch an invasion of Cuba?
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Cuba In Context @cubaincontext.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"Miami is ground zero for the double standard driving US policy toward Cuba. The Cuban American hard-liners who dominate the city’s politics have long espoused violence, terrorism, and collective punishment against Cuba in the name of “freedom” and “human rights.” jacobin.com/2026/05/cast...
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Raúl Castro’s Indictment Is a Pretext for War
Washington has spent decades protecting Cuban exile terrorists while criminalizing Cuba’s response to them. The indictment of Raúl Castro is the latest chapter in that story — and a pretext for someth...
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A story in three parts: 1) Trump's new sanctions push Sherritt to dissolve its Cuba venture. 2) Sherritt suddenly halts plans to leave Cuba. 3) A firm linked to a former Trump adviser buys a controlling stake in Sherritt
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This is how the blockade on Cuba works in practice. Not just punishing Cuba directly — but intimidating shipping companies, banks, and foreign businesses into cutting ties with the island out of fear of US sanctions or lawsuits.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Media bias is often less about outright falsehoods and more about framing. Calling Cuba a “regime” instead of a government subtly delegitimizes it, while saying Cuba “rejected humanitarian aid” erases the possibility that the dispute was over the political conditions attached to the aid itself.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
64% of Americans oppose a U.S. war with Cuba. Only 15% support it. There’s a massive gap between what the public wants and what the Trump Administration is pursuing in Cuba.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
U.S. sanctions on Cuba have material consequences: A report from Center for Economic and Policy Research finds Cuba’s infant mortality rate jumped from 4.0 (2019) to 9.9 (2025)—a 148% increase. If rates held at 2018 levels, ~1,800 fewer babies would have died.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This is The Washington Post using its opinion section to manufacture consent for U.S. intervention in Cuba. When every “opinion” piece points in the same direction, it stops being analysis and starts functioning as propaganda.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Most Global South economies are structurally pushed toward low-wage labor and resource extraction. Cuba took a different path—investing in science, healthcare, and education. The result: a biotech sector competitive with developed countries, built under sanctions.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Cuba gets hit by an external shock → the U.S. escalates pressure: 1990s: Soviet Union collapses → embargo tightened by Clinton 2020s: COVID + Venezuela crisis → sanctions on tourism expand, oil blockade implemented by Trump Different decades, same strategy.
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Popular Education @populareducation.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Not talked about enough: many Cuban exiles celebrated as “freedom fighters” came from families that owned enormous wealth in pre-revolution Cuba. Their politics aren’t neutral—they’re about restoring an economic system that served them extremely well, prioritizing capital over social programs.
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Popular Education @populareducation.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Cuba built a model of medical internationalism rooted in solidarity, not profit. Now Washington is waging a pressure campaign to shut it down—undermining healthcare systems across the Global South just to tighten the blockade. The human cost is staggering. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Cuba’s doctors were a lifeline for the world. Now the Caribbean is shamefully complicit in the US drive to expel them | Kenneth Mohammed
For decades, Cuban doctors have served the Caribbean’s most marginalised. Now, as Cuba faces its own crisis, the region looks away, waiting on Trump’s approval
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Reminder: for over 30 years, the United Nations has overwhelmingly voted to end the embargo on Cuba. This isn’t a contested global issue—it’s a uniquely United States policy, maintained despite near-universal international opposition.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
For over 60 years, US policy toward Cuba hasn’t been about “freedom”—it’s been about punishment for defiance. Sanctions, isolation, pressure—all to force regime change. The real story is an effort to dictate how developing countries pursue development—so it serves US economic interests.
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Cuba In Context @cubaincontext.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
First bit of good news for Cuba in months: a Russian oil tanker finally reaching the island, offering a temporary lifeline amid blackouts and a deepening fuel crisis. But one shipment doesn’t fix a structural shortage—unless more tankers follow, the situation remains precarious.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
"Cuba successfully resisted SAPs and instead built a robust system of public provisioning to ensure universal access to essential goods, including housing, healthcare and food. This system has been successful at fighting extreme poverty, hunger and premature mortality."
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The U.S. claims it’s helping the Cuban people while blocking the fuel that keeps hospitals running and water systems functioning. You can’t claim humanitarian concern while deliberately engineering a humanitarian crisis. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...
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Cuban Patients Are Dying Because of U.S. Blockade, Doctors Say
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Cuba In Context @cubaincontext.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"One of Castro’s central foreign policy goals was internationalism – the promotion of decolonisation and revolutionary politics abroad. This involved sending troops to fight in wars against colonial or proxy forces on the African continent" elevennamedpeople.substack.com/p/hands-of-c...
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Hands off Cuba
Many Africans overlook Cuba’s crucial role in liberation struggles; first written after Castro’s 2016 death, this piece resonates amid renewed US regime-change threats.
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Cuba In Context @cubaincontext.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"Not only has the administration coerced Venezuela and Mexico, until recently Cuba’s 2 largest fuel suppliers, into halting oil shipments to the island, it has also pressured Central American and Caribbean countries to drop their medical services contracts with Cuba" theintercept.com/2026/03/24/c...
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U.S. Oil Blockade Could Condemn Cubans to Die Without a Deal
The American oil blockade of Cuba has made conditions on the island dire, and reaching a deal has become a matter of life and death.
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Cuba In Context @cubaincontext.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
From 1999 to 2020, Cuba maintained a lower infant mortality rate than the US despite far fewer resources and decades of sanctions—driven by a model prioritizing public health. In recent years, however, the strain of COVID-19 and intensified sanctions has contributed to a rise in infant mortality.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Sugar defines Cuba’s history. After the Haitian Revolution, it became a leading producer, shaping colonial rule and policy under Fidel Castro. After the Soviet collapse, the industry contracted rapidly, pushing Cuba towards promoting tourism to replace the revenue once generated by exporting sugar.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Despite far fewer resources, Cuba produces the highest number of doctors per capita in the world by heavily investing in healthcare. That surplus allows Cuba to send thousands of doctors to rural and underserved communities across the Global South—something the U.S. has long tried to undermine.
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Belly of the Beast @bellyofthebeastcuba.com · 09/03/2026
U.S. Chargé d'Affaires to Cuba Mike Hammer was last week in Italy, where he met with Roberto Occhiuto, the governor of the southern region of Calabria. He pushed Occhiuto to end Calabria’s employment of around 500 Cuban doctors. Occhiuto refused.
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Cuba In Context @cubaincontext.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Jamaica is ending its agreement with Cuban doctors who helped staff hospitals and rural clinics. Cuba’s global medical missions provide revenue for Havana while filling physician shortages abroad. Without them, Jamaica’s rural health system could face major gaps. apnews.com/article/jama...
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Jamaica to end decades-long agreement with Cuba over medical missions criticized by US
Jamaica’s foreign ministry says it is ending a decades-long agreement with Cuba involving its medical missions.
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Cuba In Context @cubaincontext.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
"Cuba has similarly deployed doctors in poor countries around the world to deliver health care to populations under-supported by multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and bilateral Western aid." foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/26/u...
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Why Is America So Obsessed With Cuba?
Trump’s rhetoric is reviving old U.S. fantasies about the island.
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Cuba In Context @cubaincontext.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
"In the era of the Donroe Doctrine, which explicitly demands unquestioned U.S. primacy and resource monopolies in the Americas, the persistence of a sovereign, anti-imperialist project just 90 miles from Florida is an intolerable ideological irritant." fpif.org/the-court-th...
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The Court, the Crab, and Cuba - FPIF
What does the Trump administration want with Cuba?
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Cuba In Context @cubaincontext.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
With Venezuela destabilized and Maduro removed, Cuba has lost its key trading partner. In the wake of the coup in Venezuela, Washington has moved to intensify pressure on Cuba. 🧵
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Cuba In Context @cubaincontext.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
With Maduro gone and Venezuela’s oil under U.S. "oversight," Mexico is the only thing standing between Cuba and a potential humanitarian collapse. 🇲🇽⚖️🇨🇺
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Cuba In Context @cubaincontext.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
"For decades, the Cuban government has sent thousands of health professionals to work in remote villages and cities in dozens of countries." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...
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Guatemala to Phase Out Use of Cuban Doctors Amid U.S. Pressure
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Cuba In Context @cubaincontext.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
"Trump’s escalation is the cornerstone of his administration’s “Donroe Doctrine,” a 21st-century revival of the 1823 Monroe Doctrine that declares the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean to be US property." savageminds.substack.com/p/trumps-ult...
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Trump’s Ultimatum to Cuba
Fuel or Surrender!
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Trump has Cuba in his crosshairs. 🇨🇺 Washington is using tariffs to force Mexico to abandon Cuba. By cutting off oil lifelines following the coup in Venezuela, the US is intentionally engineering a humanitarian crisis. Read the full article here: populareducationblog.substack.com/p/trumps-new...
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Trump's New Sanctions Push Cuba Toward Crisis
Cuba faces an energy squeeze as Trump escalates sanctions and threatens tariffs on nations supplying the island with oil.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"Since 1960, some 600,000 Cuban medical professionals have provided free health care in over 180 countries. The government of Cuba has assumed the lion’s share of the cost of its medical internationalism, a huge contribution to the Global South" jacobin.com/2025/03/cuba...
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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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