Vietnam and Cuba Highlight Collaboration in COVID-19 Battle

INTERNATIONALISM 

Nuria Barbosa León

Granma | August 05, 2020

Symbolic delivery of Vietnamese donations to Cuba. Photo: Ariel Cecilio Lemus

Solidarity and cooperation shared by the peoples and governments of Vietnam and Cuba was the focus of an appreciation event in Havana, where gratitude was expressed for donations received to support the COVID-19 battle here.

At the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment (Mincex), First Deputy Minister Ana Teresita González Fraga thanked Vietnam for sending protective wear, materials and inputs for health care and hygiene, as well as food, among other resources.

How Vietnam’s socialist approach is winning the battle against COVID-19

Vietnam, with a population of 100 million people, has not recorded a single death from COVID-19. There has not been a single local case of the virus in the last three months.

Peoples Dispatch | July 26, 2020

Vietnam, with a population of 100 million people, has not recorded a single death from COVID-19. There has not been a single local case of the virus in the last three months. How has Vietnam been so successful in combating the virus where many richer and more powerful countries have failed?

ZERO COVID-19 Deaths In VIETNAM

by Christina Potter

Outbreak Observatory | July 09, 2020

Vietnam has been lauded as an emerging COVID-19 success story with the country reporting low case counts and no coronavirus-related deaths during the country’s outbreak. This Outbreak Thursday, we are going to take a closer look at the country’s response in order to better understand its success in controlling its epidemic as well as how the country plans to maintain that control in the future.

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SITUATION

Vietnam’s first cases of COVID-19 were reported on January 23 – a son and his father who had visited from China. As of today, Vietnam has a had a total of 369 confirmed cases and no deaths according to the COVID-19 dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. These low numbers are particularly impressive as the country has a large population as well as limited income and resources compared to other countries suffering; Vietnam has a population of 97 million people and is considered a low-middle income country with limited healthcare capacity compared to other countries in the region. The country has also had no community transmission in the last three months – all new cases have been importations. 90% of all cases thus far have successfully recovered.

The Tremendous But ‘Secret’ Success Of Socialist Vietnam

by Andre Vltchek

Countercurrents | July 10, 2020

Some twenty years ago, when I moved to Hanoi, the city was bleak, grey, covered by smog. The war had ended, but terrible scars remained.

I brought my 4WD from Chile, and insisted on driving it myself. It was one of the first SUVs in the city. Each time I drove it, it was hit by scooters, which flew like projectiles all over the wide avenues of the capital.

Hanoi was beautiful, melancholic, but clearly marked by war. There were stories, terrible stories of the past. In “my days”, Vietnam was one of the poorest countries in Asia.

Vietnam marks Ho Chi Minh’s 130th birthday; prepares for victory over COVID-19

by Steve Sweeney

People’s World  | May 20, 2020

Teachers and students stand up for the Vietnamese national anthem as they start a new week in Dinh Cong Secondary School in Hanoi, Vietnam, May 4, 2020. Much of public life is returning to normal across Vietnam as the country prepares to declare the worst of the coronavirus pandemic at an end, though the government says it will remain diligent. | Hau Dinh / AP

Vietnam celebrated the 130th anniversary of the birth of Ho Chi Minh Tuesday by announcing the imminent end of its COVID-19 outbreak, with no locally transmitted cases reported for 33 consecutive days.

Despite bordering China, where the outbreak began, Vietnam has recorded no deaths from the virus. It attributes its success to preventative measures such as early testing, contact tracing, and the quarantining of entire cities when cases were detected.

According to its Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, Vietnam can declare the end of a pandemic when 28 days pass without any new cases being recorded in the community.

The battle of Dien Bien Phu in a sun helmet

by Wilfred Burchett

A legendary journalist’s account of his meeting with President Ho Chi Minh about the battle that ended French colonialism.

from Wilfred Burchett, North of the 17th Parallel, 1955
PEOPLE’S INFORMATION BUREAU (PIB) •  FROM YEN PHU REPUBLIC
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Controlling The Message, Controlling The World: From Vietnam to Venezuela

by Scott Patrick

teleSUR | February 12, 2019

A child wearing U.S. flag runs under a Venezuelan flag where humanitarian aid for Venezuela is being stored in Cucuta, Colombia Feb. 10, 2019. | Photo: REUTERS/Marco Bello

 

In 2019, a U.S.-backed coup is taking place in Latin America against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the Chavismo movement.

In 1973, the Chilean Armed Forces—with support from the U.S. government, overthrew the democratically elected left-wing Unidad Popular (Popular Unity) administration of President Salvador Allende.

Fidel and Cuba in the heart of Vietnam

by Daina Caballero Trujillo

Granma | October 02, 2018

Nguyen Trung Thanh, Vietnam’s ambassador in Cuba. Photo: Endrys Correa Vaillant

It was September of 1973, in the province of Quang Tri, Vietnam. The “land of steel” smelled of gun powder; you could still feel the war’s cruelty. The Vietnamese people continued to struggle for independence and freedom, but Quang Tri was liberated territory and Fidel, in the name of Cuba, was there to be at their side.

Fidel was the first and only head of state to visit Vietnam in wartime. He expressed his admiration for the Vietnamese people’s capacity to struggle, to defeat the French colonialists and later the U.S. invasion.

Ten landmarks in Cuba-Vietnam relations

Granma | March 28, 2018

Photo: Jorge Oller

1- THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DIPLOMATIC RELATONS:

During the commemoration of the landing of the yacht Granma and the creation of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, December 2, 1960, Fidel announced the decision to establish formal diplomatic relations with Vietnam.

Cuba and Vietnam: Common history on the road to socialism

by  Yenia Silva Correa

Granma | March 19, 2018

Fidel was the first head of state to visit the liberated area of South Vietnam. Photo: Archive

“Those who live on fish and rice, and wear silk, far away, in Asia, on the seashore, below China,” as Cuban National Hero José Martí described the Vietnamese in Un paseo por la tierra de los anamitas (A stroll through the land of the Annamites), have always been friends of Cuba.