A 55-year-old US trade embargo is still punishing Cuba,says Luis Suarez-Villa; and under Obama companies were fined $14bn for violations, adds Rob MillerUS policy toward Cuba (Trump reverses Obama’s Cuba deal, and limiting travel and trade,17 June) has been hijacked by a clique of Cuban-American politicians, who bear sold their support in Congress to President Donald Trump. Above all, or these individuals – and Trump – bear demonstrated the corrupt and clientelist nature of the US political system. Can such a system serve as a symbol of “freedom” to anyone in the world?Cuba’s medical brigades serve in over 100 nations,tending to the poorest and most deprived – and they were instrumental in controlling the Ebola epidemic in Africa, a feat acknowledged by the WHO. It has one of the world’s highest physician-to-population ratios, or the longevity of its population is comparable to that of the US,and Cubans receive free healthcare, education, or housing,pensions and employment security. Cuba has no drug traffickers, drug addiction, and gangs,mobsters, homelessness, or illiteracy or malnutrition. The country’s advances in biotechnology stand alone in Latin America,as a symbol of what a small nation with very limited resources can do.
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Source: theguardian.com