Material following the “++” identification is of special importance
General aspects
++ Chronology and origins, US blockade. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-
book/cuba/2022-02-02/cuba-embargoed-us-trade-sanctions-turn-sixty
Survey of US – Cuba relations — https://cri.fiu.edu/us-cuba-relations/chronology-of-us-cuba-relations/
++ Helen Jaffe — https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/31/the-state-of-cuba-us-relations-an-interview-with-dr-jose-ramon-cabanas/
Origins
US intervention and the Platt Amendment — chronology — https://leftlibrary.net/archives/2420
Historian Howard Zinn speaks in Maine on Cuba (2000) – film-
https://findingaids.library.nyu.edu/tamwag/tam_542/video/69p8d9k1/
Personalities
Julio Antonio Mella — https://jacobin.com/2024/12/julio-antonio-mella-cuba-communism
Che Guevara — https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/the-legacy-of-che-guevara-his-
significance-in-the-americas/ —https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/che-guevara-and-
cubas-battle-of-ideas/
Fidel Castro — https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/13/fidel-castro-a-life-of-revolution/
++ Jose Marti and Cuban Revolution — https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/jose-marti-soul-of-the-cuban-revolution/ — https://mronline.org/2018/01/29/the-soul-of-the-revolution/
US Blockade —Adverse effects
++ In Cuba’s report, U.S. blockade comes off as weapon of war — https://peoplesworld.org/article/in-cubas-report-u-s-blockade-comes-off-as-weapon-of-war/
The US Blockade and Its Effects on Cuban Medicine — https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/online/the-us-blockade-and-its-effects-on-cuban-medicine/
U.S. policy implicated in the economic crisis driving Cuban protests — https://cpmaine541537399.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=30911&action=edit
Cuba’s problems multiply, but proposals for what to do are in short supply — https://peoplesworld.org/article/cubas-problems-multiply-but-proposals-for-what-to-do-are-in-short-supply/
Miscellaneous
++ Democracy in Cuba — https://cuba-solidarity.org.uk/cubasi/article/187/all-in-this-together-cubarsquos-participatory-democracy
Environment (Helen Jaffe)
People First: Cuba’s State Plan to Confront Climate Change –https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/02/people-first-cubas-state-plan-to-confront-climate-change/ –https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/cuba-has-a-plan-for-responding-to-climate-change/
Cuba has a plan for responding to climate change –https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/cuba-has-a-plan-for-responding-to-climate-change/
Cuba in Africa — https://jacobin.com/2022/05/cuba-castro-angola-namibia-us-soviet-union
Obama reforms — https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/17/fact-sheet-charting-new-course-cuba
++ Cuba Defeats Covid-19 with Learning, Science, and Unity — https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/16/cuba-defeats-covid-19-with-
learning-science-and-unity/
++ Cuban Teachers and Students Make the Revolution –https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/06/cuban-teachers-and-students-make-the-revolution/
Cuban science — https://monthlyreview.org/press/how-the-knowledge-economy-and-science-bolster-cubas-socialist-revolution/
Healthcare
++ Vaccines — https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/cuba-develops-covid-19-vaccines-takes-socialist-approach/
Latin American School of Medicine — https://peoplesworld.org/article/cuba-s-wonder-of-the-modern-world-latin-american-school-of-medicine/
++ John Kirk — https://johnriddell.com/2020/04/08/cubas-unique-model-of-medical-
internationalism/
++ Helen Jaffe — https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/10/cuban-medical-science-in-the-service-of-humanity/
A few books
The History of Cuba Vol. 2, 1845-1895
Antonio Maceo: The “Bronze Titan” of Cuba’s Struggle for Independence
https://monthlyreview.org/product/spanish-cuban-
american_war_and_the_birth_of_american_imperialism_1895-1898_vol_1/
https://monthlyreview.org/product/our_america/ (Jose Marti, ed.by Philip Foner)
Films
Go to the Belly of the Beast media outlet to see films on Cuba, especially the three-part “War on Cuba” here: https://www.bellyofthebeastcuba.com/the-war-on-cuba
Or, Catherine Murphy’s (wonderful) film on literacy campaign, Maestra. at
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/maestra/160157747 51 minutes, cost $4.99
W.T. Whitney Jr. is a political journalist whose focus is on Latin America, health care, and anti-racism. A Cuba solidarity activist, he formerly worked as a pediatrician, and lives in rural Maine.
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