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11Apr

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Cuba, USA

Coronavirus-hit countries are asking Cuba for medical help. Why is the US opposed?

By Patrick Oppmann, Doctors and nurses of Cuba's Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade pose with a portrait of Cuban late leader Fidel Castro before travelling to Italy, at the Central Unit of Medical Cooperation in Havana, on March 21, 2020. Havana (CNN)Cuba is offering to send doctors to more countries struggling with the coronavirus. But don't accept their help, the US State Department says.As health care systems around the world are strained to the point of collapse, Cuban health care "brigades" have been invited to assist medical workers in Italy, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Suriname, Jamaica and Grenada. On Tuesday, Cuban officials released video of a field hospital its health care workers had built in Lombardy, Italy, one of the regions hit hardest by the coronavirus. Cu...

9Apr

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Cuba, Health

Cuba’s Promising Approach to Cancer

by CESAR CHELALA Photograph of Fidel Castro visiting Chelala’s team in Havana. In 1991, I headed a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) mission of Latin American physicians to evaluate a national Cuban project involving the use of interferon to treat inoperable lung cancer. At the time, there was a rumor that Fidel Castro had lung cancer and had a particular interest in the research about it. Castro showed his interest, in part, when he came to visit us and discussed the findings. At the time, interferon didn’t seem to have a significant effect, but Cuban doctors have now developed a new treatment for lung cancer that offers promising results. In September of 2011, the Chinese press agency Xinhua reported that Cuban doctors had produced the first therapeutic vaccine fo...

7Apr

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Cuba, Health

Cuba closes border to protect citizens, sends doctors to help worldwide

By Gloria La Riva Cuba’s Central Unit of Medical Collaboration reports that our medical professionals working around the world remain free of Covid-19. Granma photo: Nuria Barbosa As Cuba closed its borders to protect its citizens from the COVID-19 virus, its famed medical teams are continuing to arrive in European and Caribbean countries to help others overcome the pandemic’s scourge. Cuba’s humanitarian help drew a venomous attack yesterday from the Trump administration. The State Department sent a warning to countries against accepting Cuba’s doctors’ assistance. The U.S. is not offering similar assistance. Cuba’s Foreign Ministry has responded with a diplomatic note of protest to the U.S. government. It read in part, “The United States Government’s smear campaign is im...

29Mar

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Cuba

Doctors, Not Bombs… “Educated in the Idea of Saving Lives”

By Fidel Castro Global Research, Excerpts from Fidel’s 2003 speech in Buenos Aires: “Our country does not drop bombs on other peoples… our country does not possess nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, or biological weapons. Our country’s tens of thousands of scientists and doctors have been educated in the idea of saving lives.” *** Since I am an optimist, I think this world can be saved, in spite of the mistakes made, in spite of the immense, hegemonic powers that have been created, because I believe ideas prevail over force.… Our country does not drop bombs on other peoples, nor does it send thousands of planes to bomb cities; our country does not possess nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, or biological weapons. Our country’s tens of thousands of scientists and ...

20Mar

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Cuba’s Contribution to Combatting COVID-19

by HELEN YAFFE Photograph Source: NatalieMaynor – CC BY 2.0 COVID-19 surged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019 and by January 2020 it had hit Hubei province like a tidal wave, swirling over China and rippling out overseas. The Chinese state rolled into action to combat the spread and care for those infected. Among the 30 medicines the Chinese National Health Commission selected to fight the virus was a Cuban anti-viral drug Interferon Alpha 2b. This drug has been produced in China since 2003, by the enterprise ChangHeber, a Cuban-Chinese joint venture. Cuban Interferon Alpha 2b has proven effective for viruses with characteristics similar to those of COVID-19. Cuban biotech specialist, Dr Luis Herrera Martinez explained that ‘its use prevents aggravation ...

18Mar

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Cuba’s Contribution to Combatting COVID-19

by HELEN YAFFE Photograph Source: NatalieMaynor – CC BY 2.0 COVID-19 surged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019 and by January 2020 it had hit Hubei province like a tidal wave, swirling over China and rippling out overseas. The Chinese state rolled into action to combat the spread and care for those infected. Among the 30 medicines the Chinese National Health Commission selected to fight the virus was a Cuban anti-viral drug Interferon Alpha 2b. This drug has been produced in China since 2003, by the enterprise ChangHeber, a Cuban-Chinese joint venture. Cuban Interferon Alpha 2b has proven effective for viruses with characteristics similar to those of COVID-19. Cuban biotech specialist, Dr Luis Herrera Martinez explained that ‘its use prevents aggravation ...

5Mar

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Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, C.I.A, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, USA

Will Policy of Destabilizing Latin American Countries Help Trump to be Re-Elected?

By Paul Antonopoulos Global Research, As the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election campaign heats up, there is every chance that Donald Trump can become a one-term president as the popularity of Bernie Sanders increases despite the sabotage within his own Democrat Party against him. There still remains a strong possibility that Sanders can become the next president sitting in the White House. Sanders continues to grow mass appeal, with former Trump White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon even conceding last month that the Democrat candidate is a “populist,” even if it is different to that of Trump’s. Sanders appeals to the impoverished by directing the frustrations of Middle America to the ultrarich who are fighting tooth and nail to bring th...

4Mar

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Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, USA, Venezuela

From Monroe to Trump. US Sponsored Military Coups in Latin America

By Global Research New Video: Syrian Armed Forces Teach ‘2nd Strongest NATO Army’ Painful Lesson in Idlib By South Front, Units of the Russian Military Police entered the town of Saraqib in eastern Idlib following the second liberation of the town from al-Qaeda terrorists and Turkish forces. According to the Russian military, the deployment took place at 5:00pm local time on March 2 and was intended to provide security and allow traffic through the M4 and M5 highways. In fact, the Russians came to put an end to Turkish attempts to capture the town and cut off the M5 highway in this area. From Monroe to Trump. US Sponsored Military Coups in Latin America By Elson Concepción Pérez, The latest threat to Venezuela of a possible military intervention, the recent cou...

25Feb

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Cuba Claims for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons

Foreign Minister Rodriguez stressed that U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal threatens international peace and security. Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Tuesday asked the international community to work in favor of complete nuclear disarmament at the 43rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. RELATED: US Deploys Dangerous Nuclear Weapon for First Time Ever "The international community cannot remain silent in the face of the current scenario, in which wars of pillage, arms race, and the lack of respect for the right to self-determination of peoples are proliferating," Rodriguez said. "The behavior of the U.S. administration and its military domination strategy is worrisome. The modernization of its nuclea...

9Feb

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China, Cuba

China Chinese Doctors Are Using Cuban Antivirals Against Coronavirus

The ‘Deal of the Century’ Challenge for Palestinians by Ramzy Baroud Venezuela, Jan. 2020: Hardship and Resistance by Peter Lackowski An Epic Act of Resistance and Trial of Our Times by Lauren Smith Why Doesn’t the US Move out Despite the Iraqi Parliament’... by Peter Koenig A New Honduran Migrant Caravan in 2020Estefanía BravoThings Are Tense on the Streets of Quito as Night Falls on the CityIain BrucePeople’s Republic of China Turns 70Estefanía BravoPro-gun Control Demonstrations Take Place in Washington DCJorge Gestoso Cuba produces one of the most potent medicines for the treatment of immunological diseases. The Recombinant Interferon Alpha 2B (IFNrec), an antiviral produced by the Cuban biotech industry, is bei...