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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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.
This chart is absurd.
Bush, Clinton, Obama, Biden: millions.
Trump & family: $3.4 billion.
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.
"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.
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?
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.
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
"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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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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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 ...
