Helen Yaffe

Professor of Latin American Political Economy, University of Glasgow. Author: We Are Cuba! How a revolutionary people survived in post-Soviet world

[David Ramírez Álvarez 🇨🇺 @DvidTwit]

"why would I need new evidence?"🤯

That's the answer given by Rubio when asked if there was new evidence that supported putting Cuba on the states sponsors of terrorism list.

Cuba doesn't pose a threat and is being put on this list for political reasons

[Cuban Embassy in US @EmbaCubaUS]

Letter from the #US @elam_oficial Alumni Association

"We are gravely alarmed by the escalating threat of military action against Cuba — and we say this as doctors, not diplomats.

We have walked the wards of Cuban hospitals. We have been cared for by the nurses, physicians, and community health workers who built that system. We know their faces.

Any military strike against Cuba is a strike against those people, against those hospitals, against the patients lying in beds already without medicine or power.

We trained to save lives. We will not be silent while the country that trained us is threatened with destruction.

We call on this administration and Congress to unequivocally renounce military intervention in Cuba."

[David Ramírez Álvarez 🇨🇺 @DvidTwit]

Yes, there are hundreds of thousands of Cuban-Americans in the U.S. that are against the blockade.

Some are not public about it because they are scared of the repression they might be submitted to by the U.S. Gov.

Others are scared of being deported or harassed by ICE.

[El Necio @ElNecio_Cuba]

🇺🇸 SE DESATA UNA MANIFESTACIÓN en en Miami contra el lobby político que quiere guerra e invasión para Cuba.

– Un grupo de jóvenes PROTESTA HOY contra las voces extremistas que piden bombas sobre sus propia familias

Hay gente que no olvida ❤️‍🩹🇨🇺
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📸 FOTOS: Radio Miami Today

[Cuban Embassy in US @EmbaCubaUS]

🇨🇺 Cuba has done it again.

Meet VAXIRA® — a therapeutic cancer vaccine developed by Cuban and Argentine scientists that helps the immune system recognise and destroy lung cancer cells. Approved in both Cuba and Argentina for advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

🔬 It works by mimicking a molecule found on cancer cells but almost entirely absent in healthy human tissue — meaning it targets tumours with remarkable precision and very few side effects.

📊 Clinical trials showed a significant improvement in survival for advanced lung cancer patients, with 1-year survival nearly doubling compared to the control group. Real-world data shows median survival of up to 24.5 months in maintenance therapy.

💉 Minimal side effects. Suitable for long-term use. Affordable and accessible — unlike many Western immunotherapies that price patients out of treatment.

And in 2025, VAXIRA® received Cuba's National Technological Innovation Award. All of this achieved by a country under decades of US economic blockade.

The United States spends billions on cancer research. Cuba, under sanctions, develops vaccines the world hasn't seen before. 🇨🇺🔬

#VAXIRA #CubanScience #LungCancer #CancerResearch #Biotechnology

[Aidan Ratchford @AMRatchford]

Great to present on an interesting panel at @LASAweb @lasaintcongress discussing Cuban internationalism! A more important theme than ever given current events

[Helen Yaffe @HelenYaffe]

I learned about this incredible Cuban drug during COVID. “Labrada Rosado explained that the clinical trials also showed that after the administration of Biomodulin T in the elderly, a 70% reduction in the incidence of respiratory infections was achieved” https://t.co/YDFOvxLoHe

[Josefina Vidal @JosefinaVidalF]

ALERTA: Complicidad creciente de medios de prensa con los esfuerzos del gobierno de EEUU para tratar de naturalizar la idea de una agresión contra #Cuba🇨🇺 y que sea aceptada por la opinión pública. Merece una firme denuncia.

#LaPatriaSeDefiende

[Helen Yaffe @HelenYaffe]

My article just published in @RedPeppermag #Cuba stands firm “Cuba continues to show the world an alternative mode of development even in the face of US regime change, argues @HelenYaffe” https://t.co/rwkEMXogpW

[Gustavo Petro @petrogustavo]

Si hay excedentes de arroz en Colombia deben ser comprados y llevados de urgencia a Cuba. No quiero funcionarios perezosos y asustados cuando hay que alimentar un pueblo entero

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

I am guilty.

Guilty of loving the Cuban people.
Guilty of believing Cuban children deserve medicine instead of sanctions.
Guilty of believing that trying to save lives should not be treated like a crime.

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

Taking medical supplies to pediatric hospitals in Cuba is now a crime? Saving the lives of babies is a crime? This administration is beyond grotesque.

[Helen Yaffe @HelenYaffe]

@cubanalysis Interview Zue Jernstedt, US veteran turned anti-war activist. So poignant for developments today! https://t.co/fxvo4xT6ML via @YouTube

[tim anderson @timand2037]

Comparto este video que lanzaron ayer Silvio Rodríguez y Chico Buarque; los fondos que se recaben serán donados a la Sala de Pediatría del Instituto de Oncología de Cuba, así que si queréis verlo, darle like y compartirlo con otras personas, es un pequeño grano de arena para aliviar la difícil situación en que se encuentran.
El vídeo es precioso y presenta esa Habana tan digna como empobrecida.
https://t.co/AVk6LbJAI7

[Aguaje Films @Aguajefilms]

#BreakingNews

Filtran nuevo video de Mr. Blond Worm 🇺🇸.

[Helen Yaffe @HelenYaffe]

@extremearturo @UofGlasgow Thanks - appreciate your contributions too!

[Helen Yaffe @HelenYaffe]

How Raúl Castro Helped Communist Cuba Resist the US "He still has a lot of moral and political authority," said @HelenYaffe, who is professor of Latin American Political Economy at @UofGlasgow. https://t.co/m4duNvKXRG

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

An excellent episode on Cuba’s revolution. Essential listening, especially given the current crisis, by the inimitable Helen Yaffe. https://t.co/0Gurfixhx4

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Israel massacred six medics in Lebanon today, but Western media didn't cover it because they are too busy trying to manufacture consent for an illegal US invasion of Cuba.

[David Adler @davidrkadler]

Hello 👋 Many friends have asked me about the significance about this Supreme Court ruling on Cuba 🇨🇺.

“Why,” they ask, “would a US court ruling matter for a foreign country – with its own laws, and its own institutions?”

The answer is simple — if you follow Marco Rubio’s imperial logic to its conclusion.

So let’s break it down ⏬

The US is right now preparing to invade Cuba, where it hopes to reintroduce the colonial dynamic that defined the US-Cuban relationship for decades.

What does that mean in practice? It means dividing the spoils of the island between Cuban-American counter-revolutionaries & US corporations.

Beachfront property, rural farms, industrial capacity — all of it. That is the prize — and the real motivation — for Rubio’s invasion.

Why does this matter for US citizens on the other side of the border? 🧐

Because after invasion — and after six decades of punishing economic sanctions — the US plans to pummel Cuba with cash.

Sounds good, right? 🤑 Nope! I can guarantee you that this money will not go to ordinary Cubans.

And here we come back to the Supreme Court ruling.

The ruling basically means that all the “charitable” cash the US injects into the island will immediately leave again — fleeing into the hands of the ultra-wealthy domiciled abroad.

Through cases at the US Supreme Court, those “exiles” will be awarded huge payments out of Cuban coffers — only serving to impoverish further a population that has already suffered so much under US siege.

What is the lesson? 🙇‍♂️ Well, mine is that we must always read US law through the broader analytical prism of our imperial project — a project that does not provide for justice, but rather paves the way for the plunder of foreign nations close and far.

Cuba is no exception. On the contrary, after over a century of US efforts to secure colonial control of the island, Cuba is the paradigmatic case that proves the rule.