A Cuban surgeon reveals how U.S. sanctions are collapsing Cuba’s healthcare system, fueling medicine shortages, blackouts and preventable de
I truly do recommend this article to everybody.
This part stuck out to me the most:
"People ask why I remain. The answer is not complicated. I am a patriot— not as a label, but as a life. I believe that my obligation does not end at my front door, or at my hospital’s entrance, or at my country’s borders. I believe in a country that belongs to everyone, not to a privileged few. I believe in something larger than any of us: the possibility of a society built not on profit, but on social justice, dignity, and respect for every human being. I believe in a global society where the innate potential, skill, talent, and genius within each of us is allowed to flourish and be freely shared with one another. I believe in the society we are building here, imperfect and besieged and ours. I believe that no foreign politician, who knows nothing of my country, should decide if my child is able to eat. I believe that no foreign power has the right to enter this island, hollow out its people with hunger, and call it freedom. If it came to that — if defense of this homeland required everything — I would give everything. This is not bravado. It is the same conviction that gets me out of bed before dawn, that makes me answer my phone at midnight when a frightened patient calls, or that kept me in a gasoline lineup for 23 hours 2 weeks ago when gas was scarce, but still available."
