Helen Yaffe
Helen Yaffe is Professor of Latin American Political Economy at the University of Glasgow. Her teaching focuses on Cuban and Latin American history and development. Since 1995 she has spent time living and researching in Cuba and participating in solidarity campaigns. Her doctoral research examined the least known aspect of one of the 20th century’s best-known icons: the economic work of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara as a member of the Cuban government and his contribution to socialist political economy debates. Yaffe frequently provides commentary to the mainstream media on developments in Cuba and Cuba-US relations and has written for Jacobin, The Guardian, The Conversation, Counterpunch, Red Pepper and Green Left, among other outlets.
Yaffe is the author of Che Guevara: the Economics of Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World (Yale University Press, 2020). She has co-produced three documentaries: Cuba & Covid-19: Public Health, Science and Solidarity (DaniFilms, 2020), Cuba’s Life Task: Combatting Climate Change (DaniFilms, 2021), and Cuba Bees: The Organic Revolution (DaniFilms, 2024). She is also the co-host of Cuba Analysis podcast which is available on multiple platforms: linktr.ee/cuba.analysis
