"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."
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"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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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.
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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.
This chart is absurd.
Bush, Clinton, Obama, Biden: millions.
Trump & family: $3.4 billion.
The graph is a visual representation of class power.
The bottom 50% barely moved. The top 0.1% increased 501%
When the wealthy fund campaigns, hire armies of lobbyists, and shape economic policy, redistribution upwards is the result.
"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."
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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
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?
Dan Miller
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.
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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Cuba continues to show the world an alternative mode of development even in the face of US regime change, argues Helen Yaffe
