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Originally Posted by Malkmus
Does anyone has links to good articles about cuban medical system ?
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"MENTION faraway Cuba and most people think of a Caribbean island best known for Havana cigars, rum and the revolutionary exploits of Che Guevara. They probably don't associate it with cutting edge medical research.
Yet Cuban biotechnology is now, among other things, leading the way in the development of a new generation of anti-cancer therapies expected to be available to the European market by 2008. "
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=3193
"Pro-embargo logic forms a vicious and bizarre circle: Washington outlaws trade with Cuba, even in medicine, forcing Cuba to develop its own advanced pharmaceutical and biotechnological industry. Washington then cites that industry as evidence of Cuba?s ability to wage biological warfare. Washington therefore labels Cuba a terrorist nation. Thus the embargo is ?not only legitimate, but essential.?
http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Jun2003/franklin0603.html