cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48875778

Duration - 1:32 

[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Director Daniel Montero shares what drew him to the story of Dr. Teresita Rodríguez and why TERESITA’S DREAM became such a meaningful film to make.

The documentary follows the Cuban scientist whose search for an Alzheimer’s treatment began after watching her mother battle the disease. Set against the backdrop of Cuba’s biotech sector and the challenges created by decades of U.S. sanctions, TERESITA’S DREAM is a story of love, scientific innovation, and perseverance against the odds.

Watch the full documentary: TERESITA’S DREAM

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48832066

Duration - 1:51 [a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Cuban medical workers have served on international cooperation missions in more than 150 countries since the 1960s.

During Covid, a Cuban medical brigade helped Italians in Lombardy, which triggered Calabria’s president Roberto Occhiuto to reach out to Cuba in 2022 to invite hundreds of doctors to his region. Calabria is one of the poorest regions in Italy and its healthcare has suffered greatly from staffing and other issues.

Listen to the Italian people explain what Cuba’s health internationalism means to them.

“Cuba will always be in my heart,” says an elderly Italian man whose life was saved by a Cuban doctor.

Watch our documentary film “From Cuba to Calabria: Medical Missions in Times of Crisis.”

you think it was over?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48757270

Duration - 58:38
[A video podcast about Cuba from the podcast team Cuba Analysis Podcasts]

In this episode of the Cuba Analysis Podcast, Helen Yaffe and Nina Blodau speak to radical journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin from The Empire Files about the intensifying US war on Cuba, the human cost of the decades-long blockade, political consciousness and how Cuba has resisted US imperialism. Abby tells us about her first experience of visiting Cuba and, more recently, of interviewing Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel for the new documentary Cuba After Castro, which undermines US propaganda aimed at manufacturing consent for an attack. Abby draws the connections between Cuba, Palestine, and Venezuela, and underscores the importance of solidarity for all those struggling against US imperialism, including domestically.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48739444

[weekly newsletter about #Cuba (with YouTube #video links) from the #BellyOfTheBeast #news collective. Their videos can also be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]
June 12, 2026

For more than 25 years, Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) has offered full scholarships to students from underserved communities around the world, including hundreds from the United States.

This week, we hear from two ELAM graduates from the U.S. who recently organized a medical solidarity brigade of mostly African students to Guinea-Bissau.

Also:

• Cuba’s “Astonishing” Medical Mission in Haiti
• UN Rights Commissioner: "Children Are Dying"
• Rubio Tightens the Oil Blockade
• Hegseth Pumps Up “Donroe Doctrine” at Guantanamo
• What Do Cubans Think About Trump?
• Sanctions Target Cuban Gold
• Cuba Announces Major Economic Reforms
• Shut Out by U.S., Cuba's Biotech Turns to Russia

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48666530

https://viacampesina.org/en/cuba-solidarity-2026/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48695126

Duration - 22:20

[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

U.S. politicians have been waging a war against Cuba’s medical missions for years. During the second Trump administration, with Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, this war has escalated. Since 2025, at least eight countries have announced they will no longer facilitate Cuba’s medical missions due to U.S. pressure.

The U.S. calls Cuba’s medical missions “forced labor,” without providing evidence to back the claim. The Cuban government calls the doctors heroes.

Cuban doctors volunteer to go on international missions, where they are paid many times more than what they make in Cuba. Cuban medical workers have served on international cooperation missions in more than 150 countries since the 1960s, usually working with populations that would otherwise not have access to care.

A Belly of the Beast team traveled to Calabria, Italy, to talk to the Cuban doctors themselves.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48658385

from CUBADEBATE [Cuba] via Cuba News June 11, 2026

This Wednesday, the fourth and last photovoltaic solar energy project began to generate electricity at the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), promoted by the solidarity network MediCuba Europe.

With a total installed power of 208 kWp, around 50% of the centre's energy demand is covered. In addition, a study yard and the polyclinic have guaranteed service even during power outages through batteries.

A mural illustrates the solar panels on the roofs, contributed by international solidarity to contribute to this beautiful Cuban internationalist project. This initiative is part of the Energy for Life program, which seeks to guarantee a stable and sustainable supply to Cuban health institutions in the context of the current energy crisis, thus strengthening health services to the population.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48616610

Duration - 1:45

[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

When Donald Trump says that Cuban people love him, he’s talking about Cubans in Miami. On the island, it’s a different story.

We asked Cubans in Cuba about what they think about Trump.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48579494

Brett Wilkins
Jun 10, 2026

As of Wednesday, more than 8,000 Italian medical and scientific professionals have signed an open letter acknowledging their indebtedness to Cuban doctors and condemning the tightening of the 65-year US embargo on Cuba by President Donald Trump as he threatens “take” the island.

“Over the decades, Cuba has built a health system that was considered an international model, capable of guaranteeing universal access to care even in limited resource conditions. Since 1963, more than 600,000 Cuban health workers have served in more than 160 countries, including Italy,” states the letter addressed to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Health Minister Orazio Schillaci.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48568489

Duration - 2:56

When her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Cuban scientist Teresita Rodríguez was distraught. Her mother was her role model, her hero…so she set out to find a way to help her. At the time, her colleagues at Cuba’s Center for Molecular Immunology were working on a new drug, and Teresita joined them in their research.

She soon realized the medication could actually help her mother, so she started giving it to her. Teresita eventually became the leader of that team, and the results she witnessed with her mother became the inspiration for a medication that could be a game changer for Alzheimer’s treatment worldwide.

Set in the heart of Havana against the backdrop of Cuba’s world-class biotech sector and the relentless challenges posed by intensifying U.S. sanctions, Teresita’s Dream is a powerful story of scientific innovation, love, hope and resilience.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48568140

Duration - 0:55

In recent days, the Cuban United Nations Association (ACNU) warned of the humanitarian consequences of a possible U.S. military attack.

ACNU President Norma Goicochea said that “the U.S. government knows…Cuba is not an extraordinary threat” to the United States or any other country.

She also warned that a military intervention would have devastating consequences for civilians, including children, women and the elderly.

“Cubans have the right to be happy. We have the right to live in peace. Ultimately, we have the right to live.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48528263

July 7, 2026

https://groups.io/g/cubanews/message/54040

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48526520

Duration - 0:23

[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the House Foreign Affairs Committee he hasn’t found a Cuban official who could lead a “transition” to a government pliant to U.S. interests similar to the role played by Delcy Rodríguez in Venezuela.

Rep. María Elvira Salazar asked if the U.S. had found a “Delcy Number Two” for Cuba.

“If you’re asking me, is there a singular individual right now that we would trust and rely on to lead this transition from start to finish? I can’t give you that name right now,” Rubio said.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48484624

Duration - 6:01 

For decades, the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Cuba has trained tens of thousands of students from more than 100 countries, including hundreds from the United States and across the Global South.

Rooted in the idea that healthcare is a human right, Cuba’s medical education system seeks to train doctors who are both scientifically skilled and socially committed. Many ELAM students do not wait until graduation to put those values into practice.

In this video, we hear from two doctors from the United States who studied at ELAM and last year led a brigade of mostly African medical students to Guinea-Bissau to provide health education and medical consultations.

Their journey offers a glimpse into ELAM’s broader mission: preparing healthcare professionals to serve communities often left behind and to see medicine as a tool for social justice.

Editor: Jihan Hafiz

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48425120

June 7, 2026

DS: You made a point in a Facebook post on March 27 that “our generation may have the responsibility to defend the revolution with arms in hand.” What is the possibility of that?

EL: Well, the risk today is very strong. On a personal level, I have the perception that they cannot venture into armed aggression against Cuba while they focus on the Middle East, while their war on Iran is burning.

Therefore, the country is preparing. We are preparing for an armed aggression, and they will never forget our response.

Everything points to the fact that my generation is going to have to defend the revolution with arms in hand. They will never forget the blow we are going to give them. I have no doubt it is going to be another Vietnam, a re-edition of Vietnam; it’s going to take them years before they are able to get involved in another aggression again.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48399991

de PanoramaMundial junio 6, 2026

[contiene mucha información sobre la transición de #Cuba a las energías renovables.]

Y te puede pasar que un médico intensivista no tenga cómo llegar a la guardia. En un hospital pediátrico, imagínate que la consulta de terapia intensiva no tenga médico.

Porque los médicos no puedan llegar por un problema de terapia.

El efecto es brutal y lo puede resistir solo un país como el nuestro, que es un país organizado, claro, y un país donde la solidaridad está institucionalizada y se generan fórmulas en la que se aplica la organización de los recursos, de los poquitos recursos y a su vez se organiza la solidaridad en torno a la solución del problema.

Por ejemplo, hay choferes privados de motos eléctricas que a los médicos los transportan gratis, una iniciativa de ellos, pasa eso.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48399463

June 6, 2026
[has a lot of info on Cuba's energy transition to renewables]

As a result, an intensive care doctor may have no way to get to the hospital. Can you imagine the intensive care clinic of a pediatric hospital without a doctor?

Because doctors have no way to travel to treat people.

The effect is brutal and can only be resisted by a country like ours, which is an organized country, with clear goals, a country where solidarity is institutionalized. The distribution of resources, of the few resources we have, is organized, and solidarity is used to solve problems.

For example, there are private drivers of electric motorcycles who transport doctors for free, on their own initiative. Bus solutions are also being sought to transport doctors who are irreplaceable, who have to be there.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48392218

June 5, 2026
[weekly newsletter about Cuba (with YouTube video links) from the Belly Of The Beast news collective. Their videos can also be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]

Major media outlets have largely told the story of Cuba's medical missions through the voices of U.S. officials, politicians and U.S. government-funded "experts" who portray Cuban doctors as victims of "forced labor." Rarely do audiences get to see the missions themselves — or hear directly from the doctors still serving in them.

In our latest documentary, From Cuba to Calabria, we follow Cuban doctors as they travel from the island to work in public hospitals in one of Italy’s poorest regions. The film offers a rare inside look at a Cuban medical mission, letting the doctors speak for themselves about why they volunteer to leave their families and travel thousands of miles to care for patients in another country.

• Six Lies About the “Cuban Threat”
• Reporting on Cuba, From Cuba
• Cuba Defends GAESA as New Sanctions Take Effect
• Tourism and Finance in Washington’s Crosshairs
• Rubio: “Why Would I Need New Evidence?”
• Despite U.S. Hostility, Cuba Keeps Channels Open
• UN Experts Condemn U.S. Measures Against Cuba

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48342178

Duration - 1:23

In recent days, Cuban civil society organizations have denounced the devastating impact of the U.S. government’s economic war on the Cuban people.

Dr. Dayana Couto Núñez, president of the Cuban Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics, says shortages of medicines, medical supplies, technology and fuel are affecting surgeries, ultrasounds, diagnostic tests and maternal care.

According to Couto, the situation is making it harder to detect congenital malformations early and to care for premature and low-birth-weight babies, who often require specialized medication and high-tech neonatal equipment.

“Neither our women nor our children are to blame,” she said. “They need medical care, medicines and quality resources.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48334536

Duration - 19:29

[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Dr. Gloria Caballero Roque grew up in a single room in Old Havana with four siblings, no running water, and a mother who sold things on the street to feed them. Free education, universal healthcare and also a strong mother who pushed through, she says, are the reasons she made it to university. She went on to earn two PhDs, teach for 35 years and run for political office in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

In this interview she speaks about her childhood, her transition to life in the United States and U.S.–Cuba relations.

She says Cuban-American politicians like Marco Rubio pushing for harder sanctions do not speak on her behalf. Their hostility toward Cuba, she argues, comes from people who can't accept losing control of the island. "They have become monsters against their own people," she says.

Discussing what's happening inside Cuba without discussing the blockade, she says, is treating the symptom while ignoring the disease. "Close the door of this house for 60 years and let's see how you survive."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48311164

Duration - 9:17 [a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Donald Trump has justified economic warfare against Cuba, including the oil blockade, in the claim that the island somehow represents a national emergency for the United States.

From drones to Chinese and Russian spy bases to Hamas and Hezbollah, Trump and Marco Rubio have thrown the kitchen sink at Cuba to portray it as a national security threat.

Belly of the Beast journalist Liz Oliva Fernández debunks six of the reasons the Trump administration has given to claim that a small island of 10 million people is threatening the most powerful country in the world.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48306095

Duration - 3:41

[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

The Justice Department has indicted Raúl Castro for something that occurred three decades ago — and the Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says he’s not sure why.

The reason the Trump administration is targeting Castro 30 years after the shooting down of the Brothers to the Rescue planes has little to do with the pursuit of justice and everything to do with the pursuit of regime change in Cuba.