Caribbean

Moral medicine, or a socialist ‘pact with the devil’? A revolutionary take on healthcare.

Filed in: Cuba Health Medicine

Can co-operatives revive Cuba’s sagging economy? John Restakis travels to Havana to find out.

Filed in: Co-operatives Cuba Economics

Haiti after the earthquake: today’s problems and today’s solutions. Part two of the Haiti Support Group round table.

Filed in: Disasters Haiti

In part one of a special edition of the Radio NI podcast, Mario Joseph, Phillip Wearne and Anne McConnell talk about the historical context of Haiti’s problems.

Filed in: Haiti

Mark Schuller, an expert on the relief effort after Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, talks about the positive and negative aspects of NGO relief work in the two years since.

Filed in: Disasters Haiti NGOs

Haiti is not just recovering from the earthquake but from the political and economic interventions of recent decades, as Phillip Wearne explains.

Filed in: Development (Aid) Disasters Haiti NGOs

A cartoon introduction to life in the camps in and around Port-au-Prince.

Filed in: Disasters Haiti

More than $10 billion was raised worldwide for Haiti after the earthquake. But, two years on, what have NGOs done with the cash? Nick Harvey investigates.

Filed in: Development (Aid) Disasters Haiti NGOs

Costa Rica’s former President Oscar Arias Sanchez – who was instrumental in abolishing his own country’s army – explains why.

Filed in: Costa Rica Haiti Military

A new vaccine could give hope to millions – if Big Pharma doesn’t get its hands on it first, says Iris Gonzales.

Filed in: Cuba Health Pharmaceuticals

A profile of the troubled Caribbean nation.

Filed in: Haiti