This article by Helen Yaffe outlines the essential facts on Cuba’s internationalist medical programs. It also exposes the hypocrisy and cruelty of the escalating U.S. campaign aimed at tarnishing Cuba’s revolutionary example and undermining its medical missions around the world at the cost of countless lives.
MIAMI — An important frontline engagement in the battle of ideas took place on the main campus of Florida International University (FIU) here on Friday, April 12. About 25 people attended a showing and discussion of the documentary “Cuba’s Life Task: Combatting Climate Change.” The film was made by Helen Yaffe, a lecturer on economic and social history at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and a frequent visitor to Cuba who is widely respected for well-known books about the Cuban Revolution.