![]() ![]() The first, with an efficacy rate of 93%, has just been released for emergency use. The country has made five different COVID vaccines. Cuba’s rate of saving hospitalized COVID patients is very high despite a serious shortage of drugs. This tiny country, blockaded by the whole world, was able to build their own ventilators. Cuba could not import any ventilators for COVID due to the blockade which covers all medicines and medical supplies and most foods, so they had to build their own. For instance, the electricity plants have not been maintained since 2014 because the embargo prevents the importation of spare parts. So Cuba is not able to engage with the world on a free trade basis at all. and the markups end up being considerable. They have a very hard time importing much of anything due to the embargo and anything they do import has to go through third parties, etc. Cuba’s income has collapsed by 80% due to COVID. The things that the contras want will not solve any problems and their heroes in the US and in the Latin American Right are the ones who caused all these problems in the first place. There are very serious problems in Cuba, but 100% of them have to do with the blockade. In the town where they claimed to take over the Young Communists headquarters, even there, their crowd of 200 was outnumbered by a crowd of 400. Much larger pro-government groups went out to confront he vendepatrias (countrysellers) at every demonstration. In the town where the demonstrations originated, even there, they were not the majority. ![]() There were some bourgeois elements in Havana. Most of them were young people, often teenagers, and some were marginal elements, often lumpens, typically criminals or those who refuse to work. Only 10,000 demonstrated all over the island. The people are not with them at all, trust me. Notice to the gusanos rioting now in Cuba. I have to say that in a lot of ways, Malcolm really as a great man. Malcolm x on anti-castro cubans, aka gusanos, when they complained about him meeting with fidel and expressing solidarity with the cuban revolution /FWUdTeityG ![]()
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