ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with a theoretical and empirical assessment of Cuba's approach to South-South development through sport. The analysis suggests that technical cooperation, such as the training offered through Escuela Internacional de Educacion Fisica y Deporte (EIEFD), is highly valued and meaningful to international students, though they often face challenges when trying to integrate their skills into the local sports system. According to Mawdsley, modalities of South-South development include financing and lending, the hosting of events to promote diplomacy, and investment in infrastructure and productivity. From this perspective, the significance of Cuba's sport-based internationalism and EIEFD should not be reduced to its impact in transforming local sports systems however, should also be considered in relation to the politics of global solidarity that it illuminates. According to Featherstone, solidarity "can be part of the process of politicization" by making clear the history and geography and therefore the contestability of global inequality.