Medical historians, anthropologists, physicians and public health researchers have all written favorable assessments of the Castro regime’s health initiatives. The 1959 revolution and transition to socialism have been credited with rapidly transforming Cuba’s mortality profile (Danielson, 1977; Danielson, 1979; Danielson, 1981; Elling, 1989; Gilpin, 1991; Waitzkin, 1983), eliminating class-based disparities in health status and access […]