Cuba and South-South Cooperation: Any contribution of a socialist regime to IDC?

Abstract

Since the Cuban Revoluion of 1959, Cuba has been ruled by a political system based on socialist principles. That has carachterized the way the State develop its public policies inside and outside its’ fronteers providing public goods for Cubans and also designing a Cuban foreign policy focused in partnerships with countries and peoples from the Global South and in areas of public interest that amounts to collective welfare. This papper discuss how a socialist regime can realize South-South Cooperation, especially the one dedicated to public health services: the so-called Cuban “White Army” around the world and also the Latin American Medical School (ELAM).

Keywords

• cuba
• cooperação sul-sul
• socialismo