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Cuban Socialist Internationalist Medicine Puts Capitalist Countries to Shame
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
22 Mar 2021
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Margaret Kimberley · Cuban Socialist Internationalist Medicine Puts Capitalist Countries to Shame

So few of its own citizens have contracted Covid-19 – less than 300 -- that Cuba must test its vaccines in other countries, said Dr Layla Brown-Vincent, professor of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and author of “The Pandemic of Racial Capitalism: Another World is Possible.” Cuba “is helping control this global pandemic in ways that none of the capitalist countries attempt to do,” said Brown-Vincent.

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