Fidel Castro: Revolutionary, Internationalist and Defender of Human Rights

Authors

  • The People's Health Movement

Abstract

The People’s Health Movement pays tribute to Fidel Castro, a historic figure who has been the primary architect of a social project that has proven that the right to health can be largely achieved even in a resource-poor country, and that it is largely dependent on political will.

References

https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm

International Journal of Health Services 35(1):189-207.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/30/africa-fidel-castro-nelson-mandela-cuba

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/30/africa-fidel-castro-nelson-mandela-cuba

Fidel Castro at the Cuban solidarity rally held in Riverside Church, Harlem, New York, September 8, 2000.

Embajada en la selva. Testimony of Raul Valdez Vivó, Ambassador for Cuba in Vietnam during liberation struggle. Havana, 1969.

Fidel Castro, speech President Fidel Castro at the closing ceremony of the Education 93 conference at the Karl Marx Theater in Havana on 5 February 1993.

http://en.granma.cu/special-in-honor-of-fidel-s-90th-birthday/2016-08-12/to-cubas-health

Published

2017-07-04

Issue

Section

Editorials