Cuba and South-South Cooperation: Any contribution of a socialist regime to IDC?

Journal Title: Conjuntura Austral: journal of the Global South - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 43

Abstract

Since the Cuban Revoluion of 1959, Cuba has been ruled by a political system based on socialist principles. That has carachterized the way the State develop its public policies inside and outside its’ fronteers providing public goods for Cubans and also designing a Cuban foreign policy focused in partnerships with countries and peoples from the Global South and in areas of public interest that amounts to collective welfare. This papper discuss how a socialist regime can realize South-South Cooperation, especially the one dedicated to public health services: the so-called Cuban “White Army” around the world and also the Latin American Medical School (ELAM).

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Marina Bolfarine Caixeta

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  • EP ID EP549150
  • DOI https://doi.org/10.22456/2178-8839.71275
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Marina Bolfarine Caixeta (2017). Cuba and South-South Cooperation: Any contribution of a socialist regime to IDC?. Conjuntura Austral: journal of the Global South, 8(43), -. https://www.europub.co.uk/articles/-A-549150