This is a Sandinista activist in Nicaragua talking about how his mother had cancer and got radiation therapy.

Each session would have cost $900 (over 3 months on minimum wage), and she got 40.

But everything was totally, 100% free, thanks to Nicaragua's socialist health system. https://twitter.com/QuenriM/status/1324689177821270016
Nicaragua has few natural resources and has been exploited by centuries of colonialism, making it the second-poorest country in the Western hemisphere -- but that's not obvious because thanks to the socialist Sandinista Revolution, its free healthcare is better than the US system
This shows that even the poorest, most exploited countries with workers' govts serve their people much better than rich capitalist regimes.

Anyone in the Global North claiming to attack Nicaragua (or Venezuela, Cuba, etc.) from the "left" is full of shit and can never be trusted
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