[fernandezpablo]

Can't believe people is so eager to believe in this without any real scientific publication of vaccine efficacy.

Cuba lacks things so common as soap, to the point that you can bribe police officers or even pay sex workers with a tiny hotel soap bar or shampoo flask.

[xeornet]

Your ignorance is unsettling.

I ask you 2 questions: - Have you ever been to Cuba? - Have you ever read a scientific publication of vaccine efficacy? Let alone a medical paper of any form?

[jorda0mega]

have you lived in Cuba to say otherwise? Do you have family in the island without access to US dollars?

This is the problem when people live a life devoid of real hardship. They get enamored with intellectually sounding bites and abstract papers. They lack common sense.

Why do you see Cubans risk their lives on a raft for over 90 miles to migrate to the USA? If the country had such great means of production and wealth why is there a mass exodus?

Cuba, as a dictatorship, is in the business of pushing propaganda, that's it! Everything they do is to secure an appealing international image (sending doctor's overseas while their own people die giving birth because of contaminations in the operating room, promoting ideals of fairness, etc). It's all bs.

[fernandezpablo]

1. Yes. Twice.

2. Yes. Happy to read the Cuban vaccine one, do you have a link?

[licnep]

I've attended some scientific conferences in cuba in the medical field and i can tell you while the country is extremely poor, they are very advanced in the medical field. Cuba has the highest number of doctors per capita of any country and university-level education in the medical field is basically free so it is accessible to a wide percentage of the population.

[sudosysgen]

Yeah this is insanely false. I've been to Cuba, people have smartphones and laptops (though internet access was limited as of 2013), soap is certainly not lacking.

Telco equipment, foreign currency, parts that rely on US technology, and so on is difficult to obtain. You'd be a lot more sucessful with a 4G base station, a boat full of crate engines, or mesh networking gear.

[stjohnswarts]

A lot of this is due to the unnecessary Cuba embargo and US aggression towards it. The US supports and has supported various dictatorships all over the world yet they pick unnecessarily on our neighbor to the south which offers 0 military threat to us.