Sanctions Kill. I Have Watched Them Do It.
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May 27, 2026
[very powerful, beautifully written account by a Cuban doctor, about much more than just the sanctions.]
By an Anonymous Cuban #SurgeonThis article was originally published by CounterPunch.
Last month, I operated on an elderly man with a perforated peptic ulcer. The surgery was textbook. I closed his abdomen cleanly, without complication. We had antibiotics available that time. What we did not have was intravenous crystalloid fluid for resuscitation. It’s the most basic of solutions, cheap enough to cost almost nothing, yet essential enough to save almost everything. It exists. It is manufactured in Santiago de Cuba, 500 miles away. It could not reach Havana since there was no petroleum to transport it. By the time it arrived, my patient had died.
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Sanctions Kill. I Have Watched Them Do It.
A Cuban surgeon reveals how U.S. sanctions are collapsing Cuba’s healthcare system, fueling medicine shortages, blackouts and preventable deaths.Anonymous Cuban Surgeon (Belly of the Beast)
