https://peertube.world/videos/watch/c9486182-88ef-4d04-97a7-ff7aab2d3d1c U.S. politicians have been waging a war against Cuba’s medical missions for years. During the second Trump administration, with Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, this war has escalated. Since 2025, at least eight countries have announced they will no longer facilitate Cuba’s medical missions due to U.S. pressure. The U.S. calls Cuba’s medical missions “forced labor,” without providing evidence to back the claim. The Cuban government calls the doctors heroes. Cuban doctors volunteer to go on international missions, where they are paid many times more than what they make in Cuba. Cuban medical workers have served on international cooperation missions in more than 150 countries since the 1960s, usually working with populations that would otherwise not have access to care. A Belly of the Beast team traveled to Calabria, Italy, to talk to the Cuban doctors themselves. Watch our documentary film “From Cuba to Calabria: Medical Missions in Times of Crisis.” Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:30:35 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.world https://peertube.world/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://peertube.world/videos/watch/c9486182-88ef-4d04-97a7-ff7aab2d3d1c All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.world/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.