Under a US blockade for sixty years, the longest siege in human history.
Despite this, Cuba sends more health workers to the developing world than any country on the planet. More than the 7 richest countries on Earth and the World Health Organization, combined.
Since 1960, around 600,000 Cubans have provided free healthcare in over 100 countries. Treating people in mountain villages, refugee zones, disaster sites.
Between 1999 and 2015 alone, Cuban doctors abroad saved an estimated six million lives. They carried out 1.4 billion medical consultations. Ten million surgeries. They delivered 2.6 million babies.