cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47443378
May 15, 2026
[weekly newsletter about Cuba (with YouTube video links) from the Belly Of The Beast news collective. Their videos can also be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]
For over seven million people in the United States, Alzheimer’s is a slow erasure of memory, identity and connection. As pharmaceutical giants charge staggering prices for treatments that offer limited results with dangerous side effects, a potential breakthrough has emerged from Cuba, a country subjected to more than six decades of U.S. economic warfare.
Our latest documentary, Teresita’s Dream, tells the story of how a Cuban scientist, amid sanctions and scarcities, has developed an Alzheimer’s medication that could “change the world.”
Also:
- Talks in Havana, War Drums in Miami
- Rubio’s Cynical Aid Charade
- 40 Years After Jesse Jackson’s Havana Visit, His Son Returns
- Cuban Americans: “Rubio Doesn’t Speak for Me”
- “Monsters Against Their Own People”
- Who’s Spying on Whom?
- “No Military Solution”: UN Chief Slams U.S. Sanctions
- As War on Cuba Escalates, Companies Settle Lawsuits
- Rising Gas Prices as Russian Tanker Stalls