The geopolitic of COVID-19 and Cuba

Abstract

The geopolitics of COVID-19 demand an articulated global strategy to control the pandemic, but it has been manipulated by the Western powers as a way to maintain the hegemonic confrontations against Russia and China. COVID-19 is not ebola, deeply mortal, but just located in specific areas of Africa. The expansive nature of the virus in times of high economic interdependence and globalization do not facilitate successful national solutions without a real political commitment among the Great Powers. Cuba did not seek any kind of international solution in front of the COVID-19 crisis. The historical policies of the country embodied in a national health project generated at the beginning of the Cuban Revolution, January 1959, permitted Cuba to chart its own course to confront the pandemic in coordination with other countries of the Global South. The response to the pandemic has been carried out in the context of a severe economic crisis made worse by a tightened US economic blockade.