April 3, 2026
[weekly newsletter about Cuba (with YouTube video links) from the Belly Of The Beast news collective. Their videos can also be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]
Cuba’s public and free healthcare system was long considered the best in the Global South, with the highest doctor-to-patient ratio in the world and a lower infant mortality rate than that of the United States. But U.S. sanctions — and now an oil blockade — have had a devastating impact on Cuba’s clinics and hospitals.
This week, we look at what happens when the most powerful country wages economic war on a much smaller country, cutting off access to the fuel, equipment and medicines its doctors need to save lives.
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USA undermining Cuba in every way they could for 60 years is immoral and despicable.
AFAIK Cuba never did anything to deserve any of what USA has done to Cuba.
So as much as I want Russia to lose the war against Ukraine, I am shocked that only Russia find that Cuba needs oils in what must be considered humanitarian aid to Cuba.
Even in USA the Democrats denounce the blockade, but nobody is willing to help Cuba apart from Russia?