#Staff at #Hospitals in #DC, #Texas #TurnDown #COVID19Vaccine

The Gaza Strip is “Uninhabitable”: Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Goes Uninterrupted, but Is Europe Finally Taking Notice?

By Miko Peled, December 23, 2020

A long and cruel siege, constant Israeli attacks resulting in the killing of countless civilians, destruction of homes and infrastructure, extreme poverty, and trauma remain the daily bread of Palestinians in Gaza.

COVID-19 Lockdowns Are in Lockstep with the ‘Great Reset’ By Dr. Mathew Maavak, December 23, 2020 We have entered a “new normal” where Pyongyang, North Korea affords more ambulatory freedom than Melbourne, Australia. While rioting and mass demonstrations by assorted radicals are given a free pass – even encouraged by leaders in the West – Facebook posts questioning lockdowns are deemed subversive.

VIPS MEMO: To Biden: Don’t be Suckered on Russia By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, December 23, 2020

#XiJinping’s “#ChinaFirst”

Xi Jinping’s “China First”

By Tom Clifford, November 25 2020

It isn’t about what happened, it’s about what will happen. Our time has come is the catchphrase, a rallying cry. The people are told they have been cheated. It won’t happen again. We are the justice seekers. Upend the global trade order, it is skewed against us. This is heady stuff.

The Vicious Circle of Violence and Obedience: Exercise the Right to Individual and Collective Resistance! By Dr. Rudolf Hänsel, November 25 2020 Many adults react to the confused instructions of politicians like children or how primitive primitive people reacted: in the form of a “magical belief in authority”: uncritical and clouded by moods, feelings and promises of happiness. And that has consequences.

Biden’s Victory Does Not Guarantee a Progressive Agenda. We Must Fight for It. By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, November 25 2020

#EU #Covid #RecoveryFund: #Thirty #Billion #Euro Goes To #WarIndustry

Coronavirus: The Trojan Vaccine. A Challenge to Health, and Freedom

By Michael Welch, Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Dr. Meryl Nass, Docs4opendebate, and Peter Koenig, October 16 2020

In our first half hour, the Global Research News Hour reassembles three of the guests from past episodes of this series, Sucharit Bhakdi MD, Meryl Nass MD, and Docs for an Open Debate, share their reservations about the COVID vaccine. In our second half hour, Peter Koenig, an economist and geopolitical analyst with background at the WHO, brings forward his perspective that includes an ID2020 nanochip that could ultimately raise the threat to a new level.

Struggle: The History of the American People (1954-56). Jacob Lawrence at The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, October 16 2020 “The paintings which I propose to do will depict the struggles of a people to create a nation and their attempt to build a democracy” – this is how Jacob Lawrence described his project in 1954. Over sixty-five years later his proposal has, if anything, become only more urgent.

From the EU Covid Recovery Fund Thirty Billion Goes to the War Industry By Manlio Dinucci, October 16 2020

#JohnLennon at 80, #OneMan Against the #DeepState ‘Monster’

Trump Needs Accomplices at Every Level of Government to Pull Off a Coup

By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, October 06 2020

The Trump campaign is mobilizing “an army for Trump,” calling on “all able-bodied men and women to stop the election from being stolen by Democrats.” Although it’s unclear just what this army is being recruited to do, a coalition of progressive organizations has mobilized more than 6,000 “election defenders.”

Julian Assange’s Extradition Hearing: The Only Just Outcome Is His Freedom By Margaret Flowers, October 06 2020 Under conditions that violated Assange’s rights and his ability to defend himself, his legal team made a clear case that for multiple reasons the only just solution is to free Assange. However, Judge Baraitser has not ruled favorably for him in her past decisions or even in this hearing.

Medical Doctor Warns that “Bacterial Pneumonias Are on the Rise” from Mask Wearing

#America’s #Own #ColorRevolution

America’s Own Color Revolution

By F. William Engdahl, June 17, 2020

Color Revolution is the term used to describe a series of remarkably effective CIA-led regime change operations using techniques developed by the RAND Corporation, “democracy” NGOs and other groups since the 1980’s. They were used in crude form to bring down the Polish communist regime in the late 1980s. From there the techniques were refined and used, along with heavy bribes, to topple the Gorbachev regime in the Soviet Union. For anyone who has studied those models closely, it is clear that the protests against police violence led by amorphous organizations with names like Black Lives Matter or Antifa are more than purely spontaneous moral outrage. Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are being used as a battering ram to not only topple a US President, but in the process, the very structures of the US Constitutional order.

 

Trump Hammers Cuba While Cuba Cures the Sick

By Medea Benjamin, June 17, 2020

#Putin Says ‘the #Rich Must #Pay’ for the #Coronavirus

Midnight on Planet Lockdown: Dylan Strikes Again

By Pepe Escobar, March 30, 2020

What spectacular timing. Like a shot ricocheting at Heaven’s Door as a virus pandemic rages and Planet Lockdown is the new normal, Bob Dylan has produced a stunning 17-minute masterpiece dissecting the November 22, 1963, assassination of JFK – releasing it at midnight US Eastern Standard Time on Thursday. For baby boomers, not to mention obsessive Dylanologists, this is the ultimate sucker punch. Countless eyes will be plunged into swimming pools revisiting all the memories swirling around “the day they blew out the brains of the king / Thousands were watching, no one saw a thing.”  But that’s not all: the Dylanmobile takes us on a magical mystery tour of the 60s and 70s, complete with the Beatles, the Age of Aquarius and the Who’s “Tommy.”

 

U.S., Canada Side with Fanatical Coup Regime in Bolivia

By Asad Ismi, March 30, 2020

Washington has also been opposed to Morales’s remarkable achievements in the areas of poverty reduction, wealth generation and redistribution, the nationalization of mineral wealth

50 Years of The #Davos #WorldEconomicForum

The Davos World Economic Forum (WEF) Is at It Again – Celebrating 50th Anniversary
By Peter Koenig, January 22, 2020
Friends, you should go to the WEF, the notorious World Economic Forum in Davos, (21-24 January), where a 12 square-meter hotel room costs US$ 10,000 per night (if you don’t believe it, look it up on the internet), and where it’s totally normal that sharpshooters are everywhere on roof tops in subfreezing temperatures – to protect the about 3000 upper-echelons, of course – and that a huge section of the Zurich airport has been cordoned-off for the private planes of the ‘environmentally conscious elite’ — and where Trump arrived this morning, Tuesday, 21 January; and where the “plane-spotters” with their sophisticated binoculars and telescopes are practically camping in the airport areal — to be first when the airport gates are opened, for them to enter the airport terraces to “spot” the arriving VIP / CEO / celebrity private planes (you get the picture, it’s sort of like Black Friday, with the campers in front of the Walmart gates) – hundreds of private jets are expected – the normality of abject uselessness and decadence of the rich – and its acceptance and even glorification by the populace, is much more than George Orwell could have ever thought of when he wrote 1984 in 1948. Read more...

Trump At Davos: “The Great American Comeback”
By Andrew Korybko, January 22, 2020
The theme of Trump’s second Davos speech during his presidency was what he described at the beginning of his talk as “The Great American Comeback”, a point that he returned to time and again to emphasize the fact that he fulfilled his promise to “Make America Great Again”.
In terms of the bigger picture, it can be said that the US’ domestic and foreign policy gains have been greatly advanced through the economic means that were described. Even if one disagrees with them for reasons of ideology, there’s no denying that they’ve been extremely effective in promoting America’s interests. Read more...

How Are Iran and the “Axis of the Resistance” Affected by the US Assassination of Soleimani?
By Elijah J. Magnier, January 22, 2020
The US President Donald Trump assassinated the commander of the “Axis of the Resistance”, the

#CarlosManuelDeCéspedes, en #Nombre de la #Libertad

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, en nombre de la Libertad

por: Salim Lamrani

Breve historia del Padre de la Patria cubana

Introducción
La primera Guerra de independencia de Cuba, iniciada el 10 de octubre de 1868 mediante el grito de Yara, marcó el inicio de la larga epopeya revolucionaria del pueblo de Cuba en su conquista de la libertad. Ésa duraría cerca de treinta años, enfrentaría innumerables obstáculos y desembocaría en la intervención militar de Estados Unidos que quebraría por más de medio siglo la aspiración de los habitantes de la isla a la emancipación definitiva.

Frente a la opresión colonial, tras la ola independentista presente en el resto del continente, los cubanos se levantaron en armas para reivindicar el derecho a la autodeterminación. En el origen del primer movimiento independentista cubano, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes cimentó la aspiración de su pueblo a la emancipación en un principio inalienable a la dignidad humana: la libertad para todos los hijos de la isla cual fuere su condición. La liberación de los esclavos, decretada por el “Padre de la Patria”, fue el primer acto político de Cuba como nación, siguiendo así el ejemplo que dio Toussaint Louverture en Haití unas décadas antes.

¿Cuál fue el recorrido personal y sobre todo político de Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y por qué renunció a sus intereses de clase en nombre de un ideal mayor?

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes se comprometió desde su temprana edad a favor de la causa de la emancipación humana y de la independencia de Cuba. Generó el levantamiento del 10 de octubre de

#US #CorporateMedia Spreads #FakeNews Regarding #NorthKorea

President Lopez Obrador of Mexico’s Letter to Donald Trump. “I Don’t Want Confrontation…”
By President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
I am aware of your latest position in regard to Mexico. In advance, I express to you that I don’t want confrontation. The peoples and nations that we represent deserve that we resort to dialogue and act with prudence and responsibility, in the face of any conflict in our relations, serious as it may be. Read more...

Top US Journalists Spread Fake News Claiming North Korean Official Was ‘Purged’ – Then He Shows Up on TV
By Ben Norton
In the latest example of fake news disseminated without any hint of skepticism by America’s top journalists, virtually every major media outlet reported that a senior North Korean official named Kim Yong-chol was supposedly forced into a “labor camp,” as part of a larger deadly “purge.” Read more...

Trudeau Government Squeezes Cuba

The #American #PoliceState

Drivers Beware: The Deadly Perils of Traffic Stops in the American Police State
By John W. Whitehead
Trying to predict the outcome of any encounter with the police is a bit like playing Russian roulette: most of the time you will emerge relatively unscathed, although decidedly poorer and less secure about your rights, but there’s always the chance that an encounter will turn deadly. Read more...

Cuba’s Earthy Traditions, and Jean Vanier
By Prof Susan Babbitt
Trying to predict the outcome of any encounter with the police is a bit like playing Russian roulette: most of the time you will emerge relatively unscathed, although decidedly poorer and less secure about your rights, but there’s always the chance that an encounter will turn deadly. Read more...

We Take to the Streets of Tel Aviv to Demand an End to the Siege on Gaza

#Preventing the #Sale of #Venezuelan #Oil to #Cuba

Julian Assange and the Agenda for Global War
By Prof. James Petras
Never has the mass media been so thoroughly discredited by official documents which directly contradict the official propaganda, mouthed by political leaders and parroted by ‘leading’ journalists. Read more...

The Price of Participating in Society Is the Sacrifice of Privacy and Self
By John Stanton
In what is arguably one of the most craven opportunistic moves by a business/media group to increase its circulation/profitability, on 10 April the New York Times (NYT) embarked on what it describes as its Privacy Project. Read more...

Between Yes and No, Heaven and Earth with Albert Camus on a Spring Morning

#Decades of #US Support for #International #Terrorists in Their #War Against #Cuba

Notorious criminals have enjoyed a free existence on American soil.

By Shane Quinn

For 60 years the Cuban Revolution has been in opposition to the most powerful nation of all time. America is a landmass almost 100 times larger in size than Cuba, is infinitely wealthier, stronger and boasts the largest and most advanced military on earth. There has hardly been a more unequal battle in world history than that of America against Cuba, yet the latter has taken the blows and is still standing.

Consecutive United States governments – dating to the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration of the late 1950s – were left increasingly perplexed and enraged by their country’s inability to either assassinate Fidel Castro or upend the Revolution.

Image on the right: Orlando Bosch (left) with Luis Posada Carriles in Miami. (Source: Havana Times)

US governments have implemented a range of attacks against Cuba in the form of a six-decade old embargo, an illegal invasion, artillery and gun assaults, chemical and biological warfare, employment of Cuban exile mercenaries and infamous figures like Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch. Little of this receives even passing mention in common discourse on American-Cuban relations.

Posada and Bosch gained a sprinkling of notoriety as architects of the October 1976 destruction of a Cuban airliner, killing all 73 people aboard, including many teenagers. The CIA “had concrete advance intelligence” months prior to the attack but did nothing to prevent it. Perhaps this is not surprising, as Posada enjoyed extensive work as a CIA agent, while Bosch was also utilized as an American intelligence operative and had contact with the CIA dating to the early 1960s.

The Cuban airplane atrocity is merely the iceberg’s tip, so to speak; Posada and Bosch were responsible for countless other murderous acts across the Western Hemisphere, executed with

#Cuba: #Referéndum, #RadioMartí, #Contrarrevolución, #GuerraIdeológica

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Contrarrevolución Dividida Ataca Referéndum Constitucional en Cuba

Las redes sociales Twitter y Facebook se han convertido en foco de ataque mediático contra el venideroReferéndum Constitucional por parte de contrarrevolucionarios radicados fuera de Cuba y por varios cabecillas de grupúsculos contrarrevolucionarios internos –sin dejar de dar muestras de las profundas divisiones internas existentes en el seno de esta minúscula oposición cuya base fundamental no son contradicciones de tipo ideológico, sino las luchas en pos de protagonismo y por una mayor tajada en las ayudas provenientes del exterior, fundamentalmente de Estados Unidos–, lo que se demuestra en sus posturas diferentes ante el evento constitucional.

Esta diferente posición ante el acto legislativo nacional les ha llevado a asumir tres posiciones básicas: votar no el en referéndum, abstenerse de hacerlo y provocar actos de desobediencia social durante el escrutinio y contra la Carta Magna.

Varios son los grupúsculos que han tomado la postura del voto negativo en la consulta, los cuales representan hasta el momento la postura más difundida, por cuanto cuentan con la venia de sus

#Trump #Sanctions, #WarCrimes in #Syria

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Raqqa: A City Laid Waste, the Law Laid Low
By Christopher Black, November 02, 2018
Tens of thousands of strikes and heavy artillery bombardments over a period of a four months, from July to October 2017, the use of white phosphorus, a banned weapon, thousands killed, a city destroyed and for what, no one seems to know, except there exists a ruthless contempt for the norms of civilized behaviour and international law in the governments and armed forces of the “coalition” of gangster states that are committing theses crimes.

New Iran Sanctions Risk Long-term US Isolation
By Patrick Lawrence, November 02, 2018
The next step in the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran comes this Sunday, Nov. 4, when the most severe sanctions will be imposed on the Islamic Republic. Crucially, they apply not only to Iran but to anyone who continues to do business with it.

Two Koreas Halt Military Exercises and Close Gunports Once Aimed at Each Other

#Cuba y sus #Elecciones

Cinco preguntas/respuestas sobre las elecciones presidenciales en Cuba

Salim Lamrani

L’Humanité
https://www.humanite.fr/cinq-questionsreponses-sur-les-elections-presidentielles-cuba-654219

En español:
https://www.investigaction.net/es/cinco-preguntas-respuestas-sobre-las-elecciones-presidenciales-en-cuba/

1. ¿Quién es el nuevo Presidente de Cuba y cómo fue elegido?Se trata de Miguel Díaz-Canel, nacido el 20 de abril de 1960, o sea un año después del advenimiento de la Revolución Cubana, por lo tanto tiene 58 años. Después de conseguir su diploma de ingeniero fue profesor en la Universidad Central de Las Villas a partir de 1985. En 1994 fue elegido Primer Secretario del Comité Provincial del Partido Comunista de la provincia de Villa Clara. Adquirió rápidamente la fama de cuadro modesto, trabajador e íntegro. Diez años después, en 2003, ocupó el mismo cargo en la provincia de Holguín. Su balance positivo y el reconocimiento de los habitantes de la región le permitieron también entrar a formar parte del Buró Político del Partido Comunista de

#Airstrikes and #Lawsuits: #CuiBono?

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Alleged Syria Chemical Weapons Attack: OPCW to Rubber-Stamp Official Falsified Douma Narrative?
By Stephen Lendman, April 22, 2018
The OPCW’s fact-finding mission delayed its arrival in Douma for 11 days, falsely saying it was too unsafe to come sooner.
The town was liberated, the OPCW team was guaranteed security by Syrian and Russian forces. It was safe for the fact-finding mission members to come 11 days ago.

The Struggle for Liberation in Southern Africa. Cuba and the Future of Pan-Africanism
By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 22, 2018
Two important commemorations related to the struggle for the liberation of Southern Africa and the culmination of the political phase of the independence movement on the continent, have been marked recently through acknowledgements of the 40th year since the massacre of Namibian refugees at Cassinga in 1978 and a decade later when the combined military forces of Angola and Cuba decisively defeated the racist apartheid South African Defense Forces (SADF) in April 1988 at CuitoCuanavale.

Trump to “Counter” DNC Lawsuit Alleging “A Far-reaching Conspiracy to …Tilt the 2016 Election to Donald Trump”

La #Política #Cubana de #DonaldTrump Está #Condenada al #Fracaso

Salim Lamrani

Université de La Réunion

Desde su llegada a la Casa Blanca, las relaciones entre Cuba y Estados Unidos se han deteriorado a causa de la decisión de Donald Trump de aplicar otra vez una política basada en la hostilidad.

En junio de 2017, el Presidente de Estados Unidos Donald Trump anunció un cambio total de la política exterior de Estados Unidos hacia Cuba. Mientras que su predecesor Barack Obama tomó la medida del fracaso de la estrategia estadounidense hacia la isla durante más de medio siglo e inició un proceso de acercamiento con La Habana, el actual inquilino de la Casa Blanca anunció que aplicaría una línea dura con Cuba. [1]

Barack Obama restableció las relaciones diplomáticas y abrió una embajada en 2015, 54 años después de la ruptura unilateral por parte de Washington en enero de 1961. Sin permitir a los turistas ordinarios estadounidenses que viajaran a Cuba, Washington abrió sin embargo la posibilidad a doce categorías de viajeros de ir a la isla y permitió los vuelos directos entre ambos países. Ese nuevo panorama había permitido a muchos ciudadanos estadounidenses visitar Cuba por primera vez. Así, el número de visitantes estadounidenses en la isla pasó de 91.254 personas en 2014 a 161.233 en 2015 y 284.552 en 2016[2], para alcanzar la cifra récord de 619.523 en 2017.[3]

Contra todo pronóstico, el 29 de septiembre de 2017, el secretario de Estado Rex W. Tillerson anunció que Washington reducía al mínimo a su personal diplomático por razones de seguridad.

#EEUU No Quiere Que Sus #Ciudadanos #Descubran la #Realidad #Cubana

Salim Lamrani

La nuevas restricciones de viaje para los norteamericanos, anunciadas el 8 de noviembre por el Gobierno de Estados Unidos refuerzan políticas hostiles hacia Cuba como la reciente suspensión de la emisión de visas en la Isla y el bloqueo comercial y financiero.

"Con las nuevas restricciones el Gobierno de Trump viola la propia Constitución de los Estados Unidos que estipula que no se puede limitar el derecho de viajar de los ciudadanos norteamericanos", declaró a Sputnik Salim Lamrani, profesor francés y especialista en las relaciones Cuba-EEUU.

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"Conviene recordar que el único país del mundo para el que los ciudadanos norteamericanos tienen limitaciones de viaje es Cuba; pueden ir a Corea del Norte, a Vietnam, a China y a cualquier otro país menos a Cuba", señaló Lamrani.

El profesor afirmó que la Administración Trump ha retomado una política fracasada, que suscita el

How The #Spanish #American #War Changed The #World

Teddy Roosevelt's mythical horseback charge up San Juan Hill 

catapulted him to national prominence.

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High School history fables taught us that the Spanish-American War of 1898 was a meaningless war instigated by the Yellow Journalist William Randolph Hearst. Here's a typical history-book sample of the retarded drivel that is still being spoon-fed to captive audiences of dumbed down students:

"It is arguable that the Spanish-American War was perhaps the most pointless war in the history of the United States. Although it was not known at the time, the war was not truly fought for territory, for markets, for principle, or even for honor. Rather, it began because William Randolph Hearst, editor of the popular New York Journal sought sensational material to print."

Certainly, Hearst and his Jewish rival at the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer, helped to poison the public mind towards Spain. But this idiotic and incomplete analysis ignores the "big picture" of the Globalist hand which moves the chess pieces. The Spanish-American War was neither "pointless", nor insignificant. To the contrary, without the precedent-setting features, tactical acquisitions, and adverse side-effects of this unjust war, and the prolonged US-Philippines War which grew out of it, World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, World War II and all the other horror stories of the past 100 + years would not have been possible.

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1- As outrageous and essential as their propaganda was, the belief that a newspaper circulation rivalry between Hearst and Pulitzer caused the war, as the first cartoon above suggests, is just as moronic.

2- The shocking claim of Spaniards strip-searching American women was false.

As the turn of the century approached, America was strong, independent, and what the Globalists would call "isolationist" - a stupid propaganda term used to mock the desire to maintain peaceful commerce and neutral relations with foreign countries. The very thought of picking a fight overseas was as foreign to the American psyche as homosexual "marriage" or government housing.

The Globo-Zionist crime gang was not nearly as entrenched among the American elite as it is today, but the pernicious influence of the New World Order was growing. Money Masters such as Jacob

#Cuba Forma 15.000 Profesionales de la #Salud por Año

Cuba forma a cerca de 15.000 profesionales de la salud por año

Salim Lamrani

Gracias a la excelencia de su sistema de educación y formación, Cuba formó a cerca de 15.000 profesionales de la salud durante el año universitario 2016-2017,entre ellos 920 procedentes de 79 países incluso de Estados Unidos.

Otra vez Cuba ha demostrado que se encuentra en la cima de la medicina mundial. Conocida por sus grandes logros en los campos de la educación y de la salud, la isla del Caribe formó en un año a más profesionales de la salud que el número total de médicos que tenía cuando llegó la Revolución Cubana en 1959. En efecto, 14.685 médicos y técnicos de la salud consiguieron su diploma en Cuba en 2017.[1]

A guisa de comparación, en 1959 Cuba sólo contaba con 6.000 médicos para una población de 6 millones de habitantes, o sea, un médico por cada 1.000 habitantes. Además en los primeros meses del año 1959, cerca de 3.000 de ellos, o sea la mitad, decidieron abandonar el país para Estados Unidos, atraídos por las propuestas económicas que ofrecía Washington, resuelto a despojar a Cuba de su capital humano en nombre de la lucha contra el gobierno de Fidel Castro. Las nuevas autoridades de la isla se enfrentaron a una grave crisis sanitaria en una nación que ya carecía gravemente de personal médico e infraestructuras de salud.

Entre los 14.685 profesionales de la salud recién graduados, 920 proceden de 79 países y se formaron principalmente en la Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina de La Habana (ELAM) y en la Facultad de Medicina del Caribe de Santiago de Cuba. Entre ellos, 25 proceden de Estados Unidos. En total, Cuba formó a cerca de 170 médicos estadounidenses procedentes de sectores desfavorecidos.[2] 

Desde 1959, Cuba formó a 165.920 médicos nacionales y a 33.973 médicos extranjeros procedentes de 129 países. Más de 28.500 de ellos se formaron en la ELAM, una “escuela de ciencia y conciencia”.[3] La doctora Diana Rodríguez Herrera, mejor graduada del año 2017, resumió en algunas palabras su misión: “Convertir la salud y la vida en nuestra primera preocupación”[4]

Hoy día, con una población de 11,2 millones de personas, Cuba cuenta con 7,7 médicos por cada mil habitantes, el porcentaje más elevado del mundo, superior incluso al de las naciones más desarrolladas. Monopolio de Estado, basado en la prevención, el sistema de salud cubano es uno de los más eficientes y menos caros del mundo. El concepto del médico de familia, instalado en los barrios cerca de los habitantes, refleja la filosofía sanitaria del país. En Cuba es el médico quien va a ver al paciente y no al revés. Y ello marca la diferencia, pues las personas más vulnerables nunca se encuentran abandonadas a su suerte.[5] La tragedia que golpeó a Europa 2003 con la ola de calor y que costó la vida a 70.000 personas mayores y aisladas, entre ellas 19.000 en Francia, es inimaginable en Cuba, pues la atención a las categorías más frágiles está en el centro de las prioridades nacionales.[6]

A pesar de los recursos limitados y de un estado de sitio económico implacable que impone Estados Unidos desde hace más de medio siglo, Cuba demuestra que es posible elaborar un sistema de salud, de formación y de educación eficiente, ofreciendo así una protección social de excelencia a todos los ciudadanos. Del mismo modo La Habana muestra que es posible hacer de la solidaridad internacional con las naciones del Sur y las poblaciones pobres de los países desarrollados un pilar de la política exterior de la nación.

[1]Radio Havane Cuba, « 14 685 médecins et techniciens de santé sont diplômés cette année à Cuba », 21 de julio de 2017. http://www.radiohc.cu/fr/noticias/salud/136198-14-685-medecins-et-techniciens-de-la-sante-sont-diplomes-cette-annee-a-cuba (sitio consultado el 4 de agosto de 2017).

[2]Cubadebate, « La ELAM ha graduado en Cuba 170 médicos estadounidenses », 2 de agosto de 2017.

[3]Agencia cubana de noticias, « Formados en la ELAM más de 28 mil 500 médicos de 103 países”, 22 de julio de 2017.

[4] Lisandra Fariñas Acosta, « Convertir la salud y la vida en nuestra primera preocupación », Granma, 21 de julio de 2017.

[5] Ibid.

[6] Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, « Surmortalité liée à la canicule d’août 2003 en France », 2003, BEH 45-46. http://www.cepidc.inserm.fr/inserm/html/pdf/beh_45_46_2003.pdf(sitioconsultado el 7 de agosto de 2017) ; Maxime Bourdier, « La canicule de 2003 est incomparable avec celle de 2016 mais permet de mieux l’appréhender », Huffinton Post, 5 de octubre de 2016.