Remembering Cuba
"You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? ” Can we talk about what Fidel Castro left behind? A country with a HDI of 0.769 and ranked 67 th of all countries, with the trend towards this HDI increasing since 1990 and retaining the level over the last few years. And this despite the US embargo. And the dismantling of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. And yes, a good education system and a good health system – but also can we talk about Cuban medical internationalism that provides medical assistance to countries in need? Somebody asked me was I advocating the Cuban model because I thought it was good for everyone to be equally poor. I must say I never even had a glimpse of poverty in the way I have seen it in many countries in Asia, Africa and other parts of Latin America in Cuba. And so yes, since it is unlikely that th...