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The phrase "sanctions" sanitizes what is actually happening.

In Cuba, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding. Essential medicines are becoming unavailable, infant health outcomes are worsening, and more families are struggling to secure adequate nutrition.

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Regardless of whether your politics align with the Ellison family or not, everyone should be concerned by the principle of one family owning such a large share of the media.

In the past year, the Ellison family have captured CBS, CNN, and control of the TikTok algorithm.

[Popular Education @Pop___Education]

"Like Haiti having to pay back the “debt” to slaveowners from their lost property values after the revolution, Cuba is expected to pay for treating its assets as belonging to the people as a whole rather than belonging to a small moneyed elite."
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For decades, the development model imposed on poor countries has been:

Open your economy to foreign capital. Sell off public assets. Export raw materials. Compete through cheap labor.

Cuba pursued a different path by investing heavily in healthcare & education.

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One of the most depraved aspects of U.S. policy towards Cuba is the effort to coerce developing countries into expelling Cuban doctors.

Ending these programs not only punishes Cuba, but it also harms some of the world's poorest and most medically underserved people.

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The Supreme Court revived a lawsuit claiming cruise lines “trafficked” confiscated Cuban property by docking in Havana.

A lower court had thrown the case out because Havana Docks Corp.’s lease expired before the cruises ever operated there.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The Supreme Court ruled that a U.S.-owned port business could sue over assets Cuba seized in 1960, possibly opening the door to similar claims. https://t.co/ry3kLBYohL

[Belly of the Beast @bellybeastcuba]

Marco Rubio posted a video to Cubans claiming there’s no oil blockade. Needless to say, it didn’t land well with Cubans who are living through blackouts that became far worse after the U.S. began stopping oil from getting to the island.

[Dan Miller @_DanMiller__]

A story in three parts:

1) Trump's new sanctions push Sherritt to dissolve its Cuba venture.
2) Sherritt suddenly halts plans to leave Cuba.
3) A firm linked to a former Trump adviser buys a controlling stake in Sherritt

[Popular Education @Pop___Education]

Media bias is often less about outright falsehoods and more about framing.

Calling Cuba a “regime” instead of a govt subtly delegitimizes it, while saying Cuba “rejected humanitarian aid” erases the possibility that the dispute was over the conditions attached to the aid.

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This is The Washington Post using its opinion section to manufacture consent for U.S. intervention in Cuba. When every “opinion” piece points in the same direction, it stops being analysis and starts functioning as propaganda.

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Most Global South economies are structurally pushed toward low-wage labor and resource extraction.

Cuba took a different path—investing in science, healthcare, and education.

The result: a biotech sector competitive with developed countries, built under sanctions.

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Not talked about enough: many Cuban exiles celebrated as “freedom fighters” came from families that owned enormous wealth in pre-revolution Cuba. Their politics aren’t neutral—they’re about restoring an economic system that served them extremely well.

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Cuba built a model of medical internationalism rooted in solidarity, not profit.

Now Washington is waging a pressure campaign to shut it down—undermining healthcare systems across the Global South to tighten the blockade. The human cost is staggering.

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For over 60 years, US policy toward Cuba hasn’t been about “freedom”—it’s been about punishment for defiance. Sanctions, isolation, pressure—all to force regime change. The real story is an effort to dictate how developing countries pursue development—so it serves US interests.

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Since the Special Period in the 1990s, Cubans have continually adapted and found innovative ways to overcome shortages created by the U.S. embargo. With the recent oil blockade imposed by Trump on Cuba, this mechanic has retrofitted his car to run on charcoal instead of gasoline.

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The U.S. claims it’s helping the Cuban people while blocking the fuel that keeps hospitals running and water systems functioning. You can’t claim humanitarian concern while deliberately engineering a humanitarian crisis.

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Despite far fewer resources, Cuba produces the highest # of doctors per capita in the world by prioritizing healthcare.

That surplus allows Cuba to send thousands of doctors to underserved communities across the Global South-something the U.S. has long tried to undermine.

[Belly of the Beast @bellybeastcuba]

“Because it’s the main source of hard currency traditionally for Cuba, the U.S. has decided to destroy Cuban medical internationalism,” John Kirk, author of Healthcare Without Borders: Understanding Cuban Medical Internationalism, told Belly of the Beast.

[Dan Miller @_DanMiller__]

You just know that Fox News or CBS is currently cooking up an article like this.

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The Supreme Court repeatedly used its secretive “shadow docket” to revive Trump administration policies blocked by lower courts—often without hearings, briefing, or explanation.

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