Today some 50,000 Cuban health care volunteers are serving in more than 60 countries, part of revolution’s solidarity with fellow toilers worldwide. Cuban Medical Brigade in Guinea Facebook pageDoctors in protective suits with patients about to be released from Coyah treatment unit in Guinea, January 2014. In contrast to the meager and callously self-serving response of capitalist powers, especially the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, Cuba’s revolutionary socialist government acted rapidly.
In August and September 2014, the World Health Organization and the governments of three West African countries, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, issued international calls for help in combating the largest epidemic on record of the deadly Ebola virus. First and foremost, the book is “about the solidarity and internationalism that are at the heart of the Cuban Revolution,” as author Enrique Ubieta told the audience at its launching in Havana in February 2016. Red Zone: Cuba and the Battle Against Ebola in West Africa is not a book about doctors, epidemics, or medical care, as central as those topics are to the remarkable account you are about to read.
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