Health Care in Cuba

Cuba's Much Lauded Health Care System No Longer Has Even Aspirin to Give Us

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 08.05.2011

Yoani Sanchez

Given the choice between the Hippocratic oath and ideological fidelity, many physicians prefer to violate the privacy of their patients rather than to oppose, with the truth, the State that employs them.

Even in Cuba, Profits Trump Everything

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Yoani Sanchez

The hospitable accommodations were built on land where pre-fabricated parts were once assembled to create a city for the New Man. As this chimeric in...

A Letter of Discontent Leaves a Physician Stripped of His Profession

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Yoani Sanchez

Last week, Jeovany Jimenez Vega -- the protagonist and victim of this story -- decided to go on a hunger strike in Marti Park in Guanajay, to demand that he be restored to the practice of medicine.

Choices for Cuban Dissenters: Stigma, Prison or Exile

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Yoani Sanchez

There are at least two hundred Cuban prisoners of conscience serving prison sentences for acts defined as common crimes, acts that would not be considered criminal in a country with a different political system, one more tolerant and more plural.