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Good-Bye Che?: Scope, Identity, and Change in Cuba’s South–South Cooperation

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The chapter offers an analysis of the scope, identity, and changing features in Cuba’s SSC from the 1960s until the beginning of the twenty-first century. Focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean and employing a sociohistorical and international political economy approach, the authors argue that Cuban health cooperation has been gradually shifting from a political and humanitarian approach to an economic market-driven policy reflected in Cuba’s earnings from medical export services. The chapter further shows that the close relationship between Cuba and Venezuela represents a milestone that has reinforced this shift in the past years.

The authors would like to thank María Cristina Cielo and Isaline Bergamaschi for their comments and suggestions on the first version of this chapter.

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  1. Área de Estudios Sociales y Globales Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Estudios Sociales y Globales, Quito, Ecuador

    Daniele Benzi

  2. GIGA-German Institute of Global and Area Studies, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Ximena Zapata

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  1. Department of Political Science, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

    Isaline Bergamaschi

  2. Department of Law, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom

    Phoebe Moore

  3. School of Political Science Government and International Relations, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia

    Arlene B. Tickner

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Benzi, D., Zapata, X. (2017). Good-Bye Che?: Scope, Identity, and Change in Cuba’s South–South Cooperation. In: Bergamaschi, I., Moore, P., Tickner, A. (eds) South-South Cooperation Beyond the Myths. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53969-4_4

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