The establishment media in the West gave a lot of coverage to critics of Cuba in the wake of the July 11 protests there. A lot of it was misinformation and distortion. Since then, the media has resumed its usual approach of ignoring developments in Cuba.
In this episode of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Show Helen Yaffe (Senior lecturer at University of Glasgow), Sujatha Fernandes (Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney) and Ian Ellis-Jones (retired law lecturer) discuss the meaning and character of the July protests and the situation Cuba since then.
Helen Yaffe's book We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet world is available . Sujatha Fernandes' The Cuban Hustle: Culture, politics, everyday life is available . Ian Ellis-Jones' new pamphlet is available for free download from .