Our new documentary Health Under Sanction is now online!


Our latest documentary Health under Sanction has just dropped!

With exclusive access to Cuba's dilapidating hospitals, we follow the patients on the sharp end of the U.S. government’s economic war on Cuba — and the doctors fighting to keep them alive.

The 25-minute film is directed by Ed Augustin and Reed Lindsay and produced by Belly of the Beast for People & Power, Al Jazeera’s award-winning investigative documentary program. Watch it now!

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Until recently, Cuba’s healthcare system was a paragon — universal, preventative, high-quality and free. But in recent years life expectancy has fallen and infant mortality has almost doubled. Healthcare in Cuba today is a shadow of its former self.

Health under Sanction reveals how Cuba's healthcare crisis has been fueled by “maximum pressure” U.S. sanctions, which were introduced under the first Trump administration and have been in place ever since.

Although medicine is technically exempt from the embargo, over-compliance is widespread. Big Pharma in the U.S. refuses to sell medicine to Cuba, citing the embargo. Asian suppliers won’t ship diagnostic equipment. And leading European banks block routine payments from Cuba’s Ministry of Public Health.

We believe our documentary offers the most comprehensive reporting to date on how the U.S. government's maximum pressure sanctions undermine people's health in Cuba.

As one anesthesiologist tells us from the operating room: “They say these sanctions are against the regime, but we’re the ones who feel them.”

If the film moves you, please share it and help spark a wider conversation about the human cost of U.S. policy toward Cuba.

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