Helen Yaffe lectures in Economic and Social History in the University of Glasgow.  Since 1995, she has spent time living and researching in Cuba.  Her doctoral thesis, undertaken at the London School of Economics, was adapted for publication as Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009.  She discusses Cuba’s model of development which has achieved stunning indicators of human wellbeing despite being subjected to a United States economic blockade for more than sixty years.  She explains how Cuba’s revolution has survived US aggression to carve out a unique approach to development