{"id":8600,"date":"2025-01-20T23:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T23:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=8600"},"modified":"2025-01-20T23:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T23:23:48","slug":"cubas-model-of-development-with-dr-helen-yaffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cubas-model-of-development-with-dr-helen-yaffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba\u2019s Model of Development with Dr Helen Yaffe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Helen Yaffe lectures in Economic and Social History in the University of Glasgow.\u00a0 Since 1995, she has spent time living and researching in Cuba. \u00a0Her doctoral thesis, undertaken at the London School of Economics, was adapted for publication as\u00a0<em>Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution\u00a0<\/em>by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009.\u00a0 She discusses Cuba\u2019s model of development which has achieved stunning indicators of human wellbeing despite being subjected to a United States economic blockade for more than sixty years.\u00a0 She explains how Cuba\u2019s revolution has survived US aggression to carve out a unique approach to development<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Colonisation and Forced Displacement in the Occupied West Bank with Lubnah Shomali\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/show\/0I9MX9YXBsq6Ldon9jyIQp?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Yaffe lectures in Economic and Social History in the University of Glasgow.\u00a0 Since 1995, she has spent time living and researching in Cuba. \u00a0Her<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cubas-model-of-development-with-dr-helen-yaffe\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":7205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1043,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/we-are-cuba-how-a-revolutionary-people-have-survived-in-a-post-soviet-world-by-helen-yaffe\/","url_meta":{"origin":8600,"position":0},"title":"We Are Cuba! 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