cuba green revolution
Cuba’s green revolution — achieving sustainability
By Helen Yaffe
Cuba’s successful models of sustainable development — in areas of food, housing and health — are now being widely replicated throughout Latin America.
Cuba marked the 50th anniversary of its revolution in 2009. The Cuban people have withstood five decades of hostility from the United States and its international allies.
However, Cuba’s best form of resistance has been not just the assertion of national sovereignty, but the creation of an alternative model of development that places ecology and humanity at its core.