WEEK 1

The US Blockade

What is it?

Why does it exist?

What are its impacts?

• The War on Cuba, Belly of the Beast (YouTube mini documentary series)

• Cuban U.N. Ambassador: U.S. Blockade is the Biggest Obstacle for the Cuban People, BreakThrough News (7 min video)

• Cuba should be removed from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, People’s Dispatch (short article)

• The History of US Sanctions on Cuba with Helen Yaffe, Guerilla History (podcast)

• Why Does the U.S. Ban its Citizens from Visiting Cuba as Tourists?, Belly of the Beast (5 min video)

• First Trump, Now Biden (Falsely) Accuse Cuba of Sponsoring Terrorism, Belly of the Beast (5 min video)

WEEK 2

US interference in Cuba

• The US War on Cuba, Blowback (podcast series covering many different topics in the history of US-Cuba relations)

• The bay of Tweets: documents point to U.S. hand in Cuba protests, Monthly Review (article)

• The Cuban 5 (documentary about US terrorism in Cuba & the 5 Cuban men who were taken as political prisoners in the US for trying to stop it)

• “CIAin’t Kidding” – How the CIA infiltrated and co-opted the hip hop scene in Cuba, Blowback podcast

• Miami: “The Capitol of Terrorism,” Blowback podcast

Cuban democracy and elections

• We Asked Cuban Voters If They Live In A Democracy Or Dictatorship. Here’s How They Responded, BreakThrough News (6 min video)

• A Comparative Analysis of US and Cuban Democracy, Telesur (article)

• US Youth observe how elections work in Cuba, Geopolitical Economy Report (article)

WEEK 3

Race in Cuba

• Why There Are No George Floyds in Cuba (article)

• New World Coming: Race in Socialist Cuba, The People’s Forum (1 hr video)

• New World Coming: Race in Cuba: Everything Within The Revolution (1 hr video), The People’s Forum

• Forum on North American Indigenous sovereignty and Cuba, Belly of the Beast and The Red Nation (2 hour video)

• Nelson Mandela on How Cuba “Destroyed the Myth of the Invincibility of the White Oppressor, Democracy Now (article)

• AfroCubaWeb.com (news site)

• Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality (essays)

• Reflections On Race & The Status Of People Of African Descent In Revolutionary Cuba (article)

Women and LGBTQ+ rights, the Cuban Families Code

• Cubans just ratified the world’s most progressive Family Code, People’s Dispatch (article)

• Millions of Cubans Vote on New Family Code, LGBT Marriage, Adoption Rights & More, BreakThrough News (45 min video)

• Abortion in Cuba vs US shows which country is truly democratic, Geopolitical Economy Report (article)

WEEK 4

Cuban internationalism

• The Secret History of How Cuba Helped End Apartheid in South Africa, Democracy Now (20 min video)

• How Palestinians Are Becoming Doctors in Cuba For Free, BreakThrough News (6 min video)

• US suffocates Cuba for unwavering anti-imperialism at great cost, The Grayzone (40 min video)

• Cuban Doctors Return After Treating Earthquake Victims in Türkiye, Belly of the Beast (2 min video)

• Cuba’s Revolutionary Foreign Policy in Africa, Blowback podcast

• Since when has Cuba supported the Palestinian cause?, Cuba MINREX

COVID-19 in Cuba, the Cuban medical system

• The People’s Vaccines: Cuba Makes a Miracle, BreakThrough News (20 min video)

• Salud: What Puts Cuba on The Map In The Quest for Global Health (documentary)

• Americans could beat lung cancer if U.S. lifted blockade of Cuba, People’s World (article)

• Cuba Has a Diabetes Treatment That Could Save Tens of Thousands of Lives, But the US Is Blocking It, BreakThrough News (10 min video)