Cuba

International news digest #8

The Left Lane’s latest international news digest includes links to stories on Cuban resistance, the funding of insurrection in Indonesia, German police support for Israel, the unravelling of EU regulations, the rise of populism in Australia and the displacement of the world’s population.

Sanctions kill – I Have Watched Them Do It

In this reprint from the US magazine Counterpunch, an anonymous Cuban surgeon paints a graphic and painful picture of how the current US oil and petrol embargo is killing his patients.

Can Cuba hold out against Trump’s economic war crimes?

As Donald Trump renews his warning that he could take action against Cuba, John Tummon reports on a recent visit to the island and offers some thoughts on the current situation facing Cubans.