" what motivates the Cuban approach to solidarity? What are its political and ideological foundations?
First, the revolution of 1959 combines the values of Cuban national Independence hero José Martí with the principles of Marxism-Leninism. second, the post 1959 Public Health Care system was constructed on those values: free, universal, state provision was endorsed as a human and constitutional right. And, third, Cuban medical internationalism is an extension of those principles beyond the island's shores"