Cuba’s and Venezuela’s support for counter-revolutionary tyrants in the Arab Spring is the exact opposite of Cuba’s thoroughly internationalist policy during the Angolan civil war of 1975-1991. Then, Castro sent thousands of Cuban troops to fight side-by-side with the leftist MPLA against the rightist UNITA and the army of apartheid South Africa. But Cuba’s aid was not only military — thousands of Cuban doctors, teachers, and advisers healed, taught, and advised behind the front lines. Today, only 36 out of 5,000 doctors remain in Aleppo; the rest have fled in no smart thanks to the regime’s deliberate assassination of medical personnel and destruction of facilities. Even a few handfuls of Cuban or Venezuelan doctors could make a huge difference in Syria, especially with conditions become more medieval by the day as polio and regime-imposed famine kill growing numbers of children and infants.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:01:16 +0000
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