Jim McGovern: “Supplies of essential medicines are only 30% of normal.”

“Some 3 million Cubans experience water shortages every single day. And the UN reports that infant mortality has doubled to 9.9 per 1,000 births. Childhood cancer survival rates have fallen from 85 to 65%. Supplies of essential medicines are only 30% of normal. And what we are witnessing in Cuba, as some have characterized, is basically Gaza in slow motion. Man made starvation with the help and complicity of of the United States of America.” (01:30–01:35)

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