"In April, the Alibaba Foundation of China tried to donate masks, rapid diagnostic kits and ventilators to Cuba, but the airline contracted by Alibaba to transport those items to Cuba refused to take the goods because they were afraid the US would sanction them. A ship recently arrived in Cuba with raw materials to produce medications but it decided not to unload... out of fear it would be sanctioned by the US government. So this is why we say we are suffering from two pandemics: COVID-19 and the US blockade."
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Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, Cuba's two pandemics: The coronavirus and the US embargo, by Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, AlJazeera, (21 Jun 2020)
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