Cuba and South-South Cooperation: Any contribution of a socialist regime to IDC?
Journal Title: Conjuntura Austral: journal of the Global South - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 43
Abstract
Since the Cuban Revoluion of 1959, Cuba has been ruled by a political system based on socialist principles. That has carachterized the way the State develop its public policies inside and outside its’ fronteers providing public goods for Cubans and also designing a Cuban foreign policy focused in partnerships with countries and peoples from the Global South and in areas of public interest that amounts to collective welfare. This papper discuss how a socialist regime can realize South-South Cooperation, especially the one dedicated to public health services: the so-called Cuban “White Army” around the world and also the Latin American Medical School (ELAM).
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Marina Bolfarine Caixeta
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