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We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World
🕑 Added 2022-03-15 18:32:33 +0000 UTCProfessor Helen Yaffe joins Breht to discuss her book " We are Cuba: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World".
In this book, and conversation, Helen Yaffe explores modern Cuba, illustrates the immense difficulties faced by a blocaded Cuba after the fall of the Soviet Union and during their Special Period, highlights Cuba's democracy and its amazing achievements against all odds, and argues that recent reforms in Cuba are about surivivng while maintaining a commitment to socialism and internationalism, not about the restoration of capitalism.
Follow Helen Yaffe: https://twitter.com/HelenYaffe
Find her book: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300230031/we-are-cuba
Helen's Virtual US tour: http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/helen-yaffe-on-tour/
Outro Music: "Represent Cuba" by Orishas (feat. Heather Headly)
Comments
Danille Sindac
So uplifted after this listen. Thank you and solidarity!
Joseph Tafra
So inspiring, thanks for a beautiful hopeful episode in these dark days
