Cuba: A bet on science in the face of adversity
Cuban biotechnology is one of the most significant outcomes of a science policy formulated more than four decades ago by the Cuban Revolution. Its advancement was closely linked to the strategic vision of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, who wisely understood that a small country, lacking substantial natural resources, blockaded by the world's leading superpower, and facing severe limitations in accessing advanced technologies, had to transform education, research, and the talent of its scientists into a source of sovereignty and prosperity.




