The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27001277

The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism “human trafficking” — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South.

By Helen Yaffe
March 8, 2025

“On February 25, US secretary of state Marco Rubio announced restrictions on visas for both government officials in Cuba and any others worldwide who are “complicit” with the island nation’s overseas medical-assistance programs. A US State Department statement clarified that the sanction extends to “current and former” officials and the “immediate family of such persons.””

  • marl_karx@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    i agree with everything, but calling cuba tiny is a bit of an understatement, cuba is about the size of portugal or bulgaria or hungary or south korea (not combined, individually)

    • Bloomcole@lemmy.ml
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      10 hours ago

      ‘tiny’ is indeed subjective and somewhat too strong, and I ment that about the size of the population, not the km2.
      And only in the context of being able to weigh or act on a global political scale. There are simply too little people.
      I call my country (Belgium) 3x smaller even in size but a bit more inhabitants tiny too sometimes.
      Most important thing is that Cuba is great in their accomplishments.

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