{"id":2256,"date":"2020-06-29T16:04:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T16:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2020-06-29T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T16:18:10","slug":"u-s-threats-cannot-deter-cubas-internationalist-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/u-s-threats-cannot-deter-cubas-internationalist-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Threats Cannot Deter Cuba\u2019s Internationalist Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By: Ramona Wadi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the U.S. continues its defunding of international organisations, the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) is next in line, as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared his country\u2019s funding conditional upon \u201cU.S. values\u201d. The mismanagement of funds, particularly at UN institutions, is a well-known occurrence. However, the corruption existing at international institutions reflects the obscure, or non-existent process, of accountability, which capitalism encourages in order to maintain the monopoly over human rights rhetoric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under U.S. President Donald Trump, pointing out corruption is becoming a veneer under which the U.S. can manipulate the trajectory of human rights violations. The PAHO has not been singled out for its affiliation to the World Health Organisation (WHO), which Trump recently defunded, but for the organisation\u2019s role in facilitating the Cuban revolutionary doctors\u2019 internationalist approach to aiding countries during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. has intensified its vilification of Cuban doctors \u2013 a source of pride for Cuba \u2013 as the country\u2019s version of alleged forced labour<\/a>. A briefing<\/a> by the U.S. State Department describes Cuba as facilitating human trafficking. Cuban officials have rejected<\/a> the U.S. insinuations, contrasting Trump\u2019s mismanagement with the Cuban model of medical practice; the latter efficient enough to cater for both Cubans and countries abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fidel Castro envisaged healthcare as a human right \u2013 a view shared by Argentine revolutionary and medic Ernesto Che Guevara. In his early travels across Latin America in 1951, Che\u2019s observations of medical practice and community relations led him to envisage a different system comprising of health awareness and preventive medicine. The Cuban Revolution eliminated all prestige associated with the medical profession, with the best doctors leaving Cuba for the U.S. Nevertheless, the model envisaged by Che, which brought medical practice to all parts of the island, has proved successful, to the point that Cuba\u2019s healthcare system, despite the illegal blockade enforced by the U.S. on the island, managed to cater not only for the Cuban people\u2019s needs, but also regionally and internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cuba\u2019s healthcare system is intricately woven with its internationalist approach. Besides exposing the failings in a capitalist system that contributed to the death toll in Western countries, the world was also offered a glimpse into the Cuban medical model. The medical brigades reached out internationally, while in their country, Cubans benefited from rigorous checks and door to door medical visits, thus illustrating how community relations were integrated into the Cuban approach to medicine. The not-for profit model inspired by the Cuban revolution thrived despite U.S. efforts to destabilise Cuba economically and politically, partly due to the education system which is also based upon the revolutionary principles of internationalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is worth noting that the UN, despite its role in destroying the environment through its promotion of wars and plunder, is now calling for recognition of the \u201cinterdependence between humanity and biodiversity\u201d, which, as UNESCO Director General Azulay stated<\/a>, \u201cis so profound that the latter\u2019s vulnerabilities are our own.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this regard, Cuba also sets an example. The plunder of natural resources was perpetually referenced by Fidel in his speeches, which regularly emphasised the consequences of war and capitalist economies. Despite the U.S. sanctions on the island, in 2019 Cuba was declared<\/a> the most sustainably developed country by anthropologist Dr Jason Hickel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. threats, therefore, do have the potential to create the space for additional human rights violations, in particular when it comes to institutions that are dependent upon the same corruption to thrive. However, Pompeo\u2019s posturing also puts the U.S. in stark contrast with Cuba and its commitment to humanity \u2013 a principle which, despite Fidel\u2019s death, remains ingrained within the island\u2019s political and education system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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