The crisis is particularly dire among children with cancer. #Cuba’s free healthcare system—which prioritizes the health of the people instead of industry profits, as in the #US—once boasted a #pediatric cancer survival rate of 80%, on par with the world’s wealthy nations. Now that’s down to around 65% as the blockade has forced healthcare providers to modify treatment protocols and medications.
“The situation is very serious at the moment. It was already in terms of acquiring supplies and medicines. But now it is intensifying and complicated with other aspects,” Dr. Forteza Saéz, an oncologist at Havana’s University of Medical Sciences, told La Jornada...
Belly of the Beast videos about Cuba channel hosted on PeerTube.wtf
is now caught up with the collection on YouTube. From now on, new #videos from YouTube will be quickly loaded to #PeerTube as well. [The previous Cuddly.Tube channel will be taken down soon.]
Also significant is the expansion of playlists. BotB produces a lot of videos, and it is sometimes difficult to find what you are looking for. I spent some time going through the collection and adding playlists.
If you set up a login on PeerTube.wtf, you could also develop and save your own private playlists. But logins are not necessary to browse videos on PeerTube.wtf.
One playlist that will probably get a lot of use is Cuba and #Palestine, which contains 17 videos.
from Cuba In Context - weekly newsletter of the [#BellyOfTheBeast news/video collective]
Cuba has released its annual report on the impact of U.S. sanctions on the island's economy. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the damages amount to $7.5 billion, the single biggest loss in a year since #Cuba began issuing these reports.
Meet Jenen — a Palestinian med student in Cuba, unable to return home. For two years, she’s lived in exile, as Gaza is devastated by the Israeli genocide.
Roger and Ismar had been farmers for years, but in 1994 they made a radical change, turning to organopónicos—urban organic farms that would soon spread across the country.
On just 1,280 square meters, their Cuban farm grows 250 species of plants—
100% organic. Hurricane-resistant. Community-powered.
Part of our short series ahead of Our Agroecology, Our Future. Premieres next week (Oct 8) on @caribbeanagroecology.
from Cuba In Context - weekly newsletter of the [#BellyOfTheBeast news/video collective]
From basketball to table tennis to girls' softball, Cuban teams have been blocked from competing in international tournaments on U.S. soil.
This week, journalists Dariel Pradas and Reed Lindsay take a look at the de facto travel ban on Cuban #athletes that could include the World Baseball Classic and even the #Olympics.
Also:
Former Trump officials make millions lobbying administration
The Cuban women’s national #volleyball team was denied visas to compete in Puerto Rico’s NORCECA Final Four — a key qualifier for international championships, such as the Olympic Games that will be held in LA in 2028 and the 2026 Central American and Caribbean Games.
The International Olympic Committee recognizes the right to practice #sport without discrimination. Instead, for Cubans, #politics got in the way. The #US decision, tied to Cuba’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, has robbed the team of crucial ranking points, exposure to scouts.
👉 In this video:
• They were robbed of international tournaments: The players’ testimonies.
• Why are US sanctions misleading about the fair play of Cuban athletes in the Olympics?
Last Thursday, #Cuba received a deportation flight from the #UnitedStates, and our team was at the airport in #Havana to film its arrival and to talk to some of the 161 people deported.
from Cuba In Context - weekly newsletter of the [#BellyOfTheBeast news/video collective]
Other articles
The #MiamiHerald lays the groundwork for more sanctions
Over 150 people were deported from the US to Cuba on August 28. It was the eighth deportation flight this year. Cuba has continued to honor its bilateral migration agreement with the #US even as the Trump administration has ratcheted up the US government’s economic war on the country.
More than a million Cubans have left the island in the past five years, the biggest emigration wave in Cuban history. Most of them have gone to the US Cubans have long had a relatively privileged immigration status in the US. But #Trump revoked the legal status and work permits of hundreds of thousands of #Cubans, putting them at risk of deportation.
Vietnamese Are Helping Cuba With 38-Cent Donations. A Lot of Them.
Cuba sent doctors and food to Vietnam during the war. Now ordinary Vietnamese are sending cash to struggling Cubans
from #NewYorkTimes#NYT
[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]
By Damien Cave
Aug. 19, 2025
This article is mostly an attack on the Cuban government, but I found the parts about solidarity between [#Cuba and #Vietnam inspiring.]
She watched videos and read about how Cuba supported Vietnam during the wars of the 1960s and ‘70s, building hospitals and sending doctors, sugar and cattle. Inspired, she donated 500,000 Vietnamese dong, about $19, from the modest income she earns at her family’s grocery store.
A new crowdfunding campaign for Cuba led by the Vietnam Red Cross Society has raised more than $13 million in the first week...
Another home for #Cuba BellyOfTheBeast videos - Cuddly.Tube
In addition to YouTube and Instagram, there is now another place to view Belly of the Beast videos - cuddly.tube, hosted on a non-commercial server. I set it up and maintain it, in collaboration with Belly of the Beast staff.
Unlike the other two, it is based on an open-source video streaming platform called Peertube, which is part of the Fediverse.
Once you connect to it you will notice a lack of advertising and other screens coming at you. And there is no tracking. It is not as polished as YouTube but I still think it is more pleasant to use.
Below are 2 links to the service as well as a graphic of the home page.
If you try it, please send some feedback to this post so I can improve the experience, if possible.
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