🇨🇺Cuban Medical Internationalism 2.0: The Development of Cuban medical outreach from the Americas to the Pacific. 🇨🇺

GDP - The Global Development Primer

English - April 28, 2020 15:00 - 17 minutes - 31.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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For over 60 years Cuba has offered medical outreach and assistance to other countries in the Americas & Africa. More recently the cooperation has grown to include countries in Asia, and now the Pacific.

In this episode, Dr. Bob Huish reflects on researching Cuban medical internationalism for the past 15 years. He argues that Cuba's solidarity and outreach is truly on a global scale, but serious challenges to the development model have arisen as well. In particular the economic collapse in Venezuela is a telling example of how the economics of South-South cooperation did not go according to plan.

This podcast is a GDP Roadshow Episode recorded at the Conference of Latin American Geographers in Antigua de Guatemala. GDP Roadshows feature conference presentations, keynotes, round tables, and chance encounters that focus on the latest scholarship in IDS.

Follow Dr. Bob on Twitter: @ProfessorHuish