How these ideas took shape -- Talent and influence beyond numbers -- Cuba by Cuba -- The island -- Cuban solidarity : Africa -- Cuban solidarity : Latin America -- Internationalism, Cuban style -- Emilio in Angola -- Nancy in Ethiopia -- Laidi in Zambia -- Educating new men and women, globally -- Cuban health care : a model that works -- Cuban health means world health -- Sports for everyone -- What i learned.
Summary:
Margaret Randall explores the Cuban Revolution's impact on the outside world, tracing Cuba's international outreach in health care, disaster relief, education, literature, art, liberation struggles, and sports. Randall combines personal observations and interviews with literary analysis and examinations of political trends in order to understand what compels a small, poor, and underdeveloped country to offer its resources and expertise. Why has the Cuban health care system trained thousands of foreign doctors, offered free services, and responded to health crises around the globe? What drives Cuba's international adult literacy programs? Why has Cuban poetry had an outsized influence in the Spanish-speaking world? This multifaceted internationalism, Randall finds, is not only one of the Revolution's most central features; it helped define Cuban society long before the Revolution.
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