Helen Yaffe

Helen Yaffe is a Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow, specialising in Cuban and Latin American development. She is the author of We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People have survived in a Post-Soviet World (Yale, 2020) and Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and has co-produced the documentaries Cuba’s Life Task: Combatting Climate Change (Dani Films, 2021) and Cuba & COVID 19 Public Health, Science and Solidarity (Dani Films, 2020).

People First: Cuba’s State Plan to Confront Climate Change

The State of Cuba-US Relations: An Interview With Dr José Ramón Cabañas

What’s Driving ‘Irregular’ Cuban Emigration to the United States?

Cuba Accelerates Vaccine Drive

What’s Really Going on in Cuba

Cuba Libre to be COVID-Libre: Five Vaccines and Counting…

With COVID-19 Under Control, Cuba Launches New Economic Battle

Leading by Example: Cuba in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Cuban Medical Science in the Service of Humanity

Cuba’s Contribution to Combatting COVID-19

Farewell to Two Cuban Revolutionaries: Faure Chomón and Harry (‘Pombo’) Villegas

Cuban Workers Celebrate Salary Rise From New Economic Measures

Another Stripe on the Tiger: Fear of Trump’s Cuba Policy­

British-Based Cubans Face US Blockade in Piano Project

Che’s Economist: Remembering Jorge Risquet