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In this segment of By Any Means Necessary on Radio Sputnik, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Helen Yaffe, a Lecturer in Economic and Social History in the University of Glasgow and author of the new book "We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World," to talk about why the Western press has been silent on the Cuban Interferon treatment being used to help countries respond to the Coronavirus pandemic, how Cuba has managed to produce significant medical and biotechnological breakthroughs despite the 50-year US-led blockade against the country, how interferon research and advancement in Cuba was successfully used to stop an outbreak of Dengue Fever and how that led to the development of the Interferon Recombant Alpha 2B now being used to treat Coronavirus, how the US crusade to crush the Cuban Revolution is preventing people here from accessing their many medical advances, how a clinical trial in the US of Cuba's lung cancer vaccine that was started under the Obama Administration has managed to continue under the Trump Administration despite the renewed crackdown on the country, how the US repression against Cuba denies the rest of the world access to Cuba's medical advances, what the apparent US government attempt to gain exclusive rights to a COVID-19 vaccine from a German firm says about their prioritization of profits over people, the parallels between the US refusal to cooperate with Cuba and the US refusal of assistance from Cuban doctors after Hurricane Katrina and how those decisions negatively impacted poor and Black people in particular, and why mainstream media and capitalist government's seem so hellbent on erasing the achievements of Cuba's revolutionary socialist system.