How Cuba Helps the World
Fidel Brought his Beautiful Revolution to the World
Following its 1959 revolution, Cuba actively supported leftist revolutionary movements across Latin America. Led by Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Havana sought to "export the revolution" by providing military training, funding, and weapons to guerrilla groups fighting against right-wing dictatorships and governments during the Cold War.
Cuban support for African revolutions was a major Cold War pillar of revolutionary internationalism. Guided by Fidel Castro, Cuba sent tens of thousands of troops, military advisors, doctors, and teachers to back anti-colonial movements and leftist governments, famously helping defeat South African apartheid forces in Angola.
- Lyrics of WAR by Bob Marley (1975)
During the Cold War, Cuba also supported anti-colonial and leftist revolutionary movements globally as part of its policy of "proletarian internationalism" on the Asian continent. While its most famous military and political interventions occurred in Africa and Latin America, Cuba also maintained active solidarity networks, political alliances, and limited aid programs for revolutionary and socialist causes in Asia.
· Medical Brigades: Cuba sent thousands of volunteer doctors and healthcare workers to build sustainable medical infrastructures across dozens of South American, African and Asian nations. Cuba offered free university education and medical training to thousands of international students.
· Education and Training: Cuba trained hundreds of students from poor South American, African and Asian countries, including military cadres, and professionals in Cuba, emphasizing literacy and technical development.
· Disaster Relief: In later decades, Cuba deployed medical teams around the world following major crises, such as sending over 2,000 health professionals to Pakistan after the devastating 2005 earthquake and assisting Sri Lanka after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Cuba even sent a plane with 40 doctors and nurses to New Orleans immediately after hurricane Katrina, but George W. Bush turned them back to spite Fidel Castro.
SOUTH AMERICA
· Bolivia: Che Guevara led a guerrilla campaign in 1966–1967 aiming to ignite a continental revolution in South America, backed directly by Cuban leadership and intelligence. The campaign ended with Guevara's capture and execution by the CIA and Bolivian military in October 1967.
· Venezuela: Havana directly supported and sent arms to Venezuelan leftist rebels (such as the Armed Forces of National Liberation - FALN) in the early 1960s to overthrow the oppressive government. After Hugo Chávez took power in 1999, Cuba transitioned to state-level cooperation, trading thousands of medical, intelligence, and security personnel in exchange for subsidized oil. This cooperation continued with the election of Nicolas Maduro as Venezuela’s president, until the illegal kidnapping of Maduro and his wife through a bloody US military operation in January of 2026 under trumped up drug charges. In fact, both Chávez and Maduro had rid Venezuela of most of the foreign CIA drug cartels, with the remaining covert CIA drug operations in Venezuela only able to send less than 4% of the cocaine imported for US drug consumption. The remaining 96% of cocaine imported into the US comes from the US backed regimes in Columbia, Peru and Bolivia. Like Venezuela, Fidel eliminated all cartels, gangs and mafia from Cuba altogether. Even the minimal amount of illicit drugs that have ever made it into Cuba are brought in by the CIA through the US military base at Guantanamo Bay (GITMO) in order to taint Cuba and destabilize Fidel's beautiful revolution.
· Colombia: Cuba provided training and financial backing to leftist insurgent groups, including the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the 19th of April Movement (M-19), helping establish strong uprisings of the oppressed Colombian people.
· Brazil: Cuba offered funding and support to underground rural and urban resistance networks against the fascist Brazilian government.
• Nicaragua: Cuba successfully coordinated, trained, and armed the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), which overthrew the Somoza dictatorship in 1979 - serving as a major strategic victory for Havana's regional policy. Ronald Reagan became so worried about Cuba's assistance to the people of Nicaragua that he infamously initiated the covert "Iran-Contra" operations of secretly selling arms to Ayatollah Komeini, in violation of the US arms embargo on Iran, to covertly fund the brutal Contras to violently overthrow Nicaragua's leftist government.
• El Salvador & Guatemala: Cuba continued sending military and logistical support to leftist guerrilla coalitions (such as the FMLN in El Salvador) well into the 1980s to overthrow the oppressive regimes of these countries.
• Regional Alliances: Cuba leveraged soft power and institutions like the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) to support allied leftist administrations in countries like Bolivia and Ecuador.
AFRICA [Lyrics of WAR by Bob Marley (1975)]
• Algeria (1961–1963): Provided early medical and military aid to the National Liberation Front (FLN) during and after their war for independence from France.
• Angola (1975–1991): Deployed tens of thousands of troops to protect the newly independent leftist government (MPLA) against invasions by brutal South African apartheid forces and US-backed UNITA rebels.
• Namibia and South Africa: Cuban forces decisively turned the tide against the South African military at the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale in 1988, paving the way for Namibian independence and accelerating the collapse of apartheid in South Africa.
• Ethiopia (1977–1978): Sent military forces to assist the Ethiopian government during the Ogaden War.
• Other Countries: Provided strategic, training, or logistical support to liberation movements in Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and the Congos.
ASIA
· Vietnam: Cuba was the first country in the Western Hemisphere to establish formal diplomatic relations with the National Liberation Front / North Vietnam in December 1960. Havana created the Cuban Committee for Solidarity with South Vietnam in 1963, organizing massive public rallies and campaigns under the slogan “All for Vietnam”.
· Indochina: Cuba expanded its solidarity framework to include revolutionary groups and civilians in Laos and Cambodia, founding the Cuban Committee of Solidarity with Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in August 1970.
· The Tricontinental Conference: Fidel Castro used the 1966 Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAL) conference in Havana to formally cement Cuba's mission to link revolutionary groups across Asia with global anti-imperialist networks.
· Middle East and South Asia: Cuba provided consistent diplomatic backing and refuge support to left-wing Asian liberation movements, including the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and various anti-monarchist or socialist regional factions. To this day, Cuba’s national policy is to support the Palestinian people in their resistance (or intifada) against the genocidal apartheid regime of the illegal zionist state called israhell.
