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Exporting Doctors

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Big headache: Cuba-SA doctor training programme put on hold
Big headache: Cuba-SA doctor training programme put on hold

23 APRIL 2018 by TAMAR KAHN

A question mark hangs over the future of SA’s massive programme for training medical students in Cuba, which will see about 700 fifth-year students returning home in July to complete the last leg of their training.

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi told Business Day the programme was so large it was a headache for both countries and a decision had been taken in the National Health Council to scale it back temporarily. The programme would lapse for three years to relieve pressure on the system but would not stop entirely, he said.
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The cost of training doctors in Cuba is more than twice that the cost of training them in South Africa. Many SA doctors had criticized the program for many years and some has called for its termination. The Department of Health has giving job priorities to Cuban trained doctors over South African doctors. The money saved could be used for medical schools, and at the same time thousands of jobs would be created around these schools.
 
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Is Cuba abusing its overseas workers? A Tampa dissident takes Cuba to court
Is Cuba abusing its overseas workers? A Tampa dissident takes Cuba to court

Paul Guzzo
Times staff writer
Published July 9, 2018

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BRONTE WITTPENN | Times Raul Risco, who was an attorney in his native Cuba, says his ultimate goal is to take his case to the United Nations\u2019 International Court of Justice.\uFEFF

TAMPA — Raul Risco was once loyal to Cuba’s socialist cause.

He says he served in the Cuban military as a lieutenant colonel and later worked for the government’s Ministry of the Interior.

Then 18 years ago, disillusioned with socialism and a one-party political system, Risco became a vocal dissident in the city of Camaguey. This role, he says, landed him in a Cuban prison 300 times, for a total of five years.

For the safety of his wife and 4-year-old son, Risco sought asylum and moved with his family to Tampa 11 months ago. But his work as a dissident leader has not stopped.

Risco, 62, has filed a lawsuit in Havana demanding changes to the Cuban government’s practice of sending professionals to work overseas as part of a system he says is akin to human trafficking.
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The Castroit regime send Cubans doctors to work for peanuts around the world. Many of them that accept to work overseas do so as a way to escape from the miserable life in the island. In many of those countries the doctors find out they are imprisoned in their new assignments. They work in remote communities with restricted means of transportation, and under surveillance all the time. Because they live their lives in servitude to work in those countries, many doctors in such medical missions defect to freedom. This is a modern day version of human trafficking, a multi-billion dollar form of international organize crime, a modern-day slavery.
 
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Many Cubans using abortion as birth control
Opinion: Many Cubans using abortion as birth control | Opinion | DW | 13.08.2018

By Yoani Sánchez
August 13, 2018

Abortion can sometimes carry major health risks. The lack of availability of either condoms or contraceptive pills means that many Cuban women undergo several abortions in their lives, the blogger Yoani Sánchez writes.

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She is only 20 years old but has already had four abortions. The young Cuban woman, who prefers to remain anonymous, is not an isolated case.


In some countries in Latin America, women can spend many years behind bars because they have had an abortion or even because they are suspected of having undergone the procedure. In countries such as Chile and Argentina, a debate about abortion is taking place on the streets and in public discourse. However, in Cuba discussion on the subject is taking place — if at all — on social networks and the websites of the independent press.
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The Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez

The government calls abortion a "resolved issue," but Catholic priests vociferously speak out against women who decide to have the procedure.
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Cubans women fertility rate is 1.7 birth per woman, one of the lowest in the world (rank 149 of 200, World Bank list 2016). Abortion keeps Cuban infant mortality low by the widespread use of it as birth control. Late abortions are performed in Cuba using the “Rivanol method”, where the unborn baby is expelled alive from the uterus and let die without medical assistance.
 
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Under the Castroit regime, doctors work under great pressure exerted by the statistics to keep the infant mortality rate low. They increase the usage of contraception and abortion in order to lower maternal/infant mortality rate. Some doctors invoking “humanitarian” reasons for the sake of the baby, have killed newborns suffering from some type of defect or disease without the consent of the parents.
 
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Cuban infant mortality and longevity: health care or repression?
Cuban infant mortality and longevity: health care or repression? | Health Policy and Planning | Oxford Academic

Gilbert Berdine Vincent Geloso Benjamin Powell

Health Policy and Planning, Volume 33, Issue 6, 1 July 2018, Pages 755–757,Cuban infant mortality and longevity: health care or repression? | Health Policy and Planning | Oxford Academic
Published: 08 June 2018

Highlights

• Cuban healthcare statistics are flawed.

• The health achievements are in part the result of repressive methods.

• The health achievements are in part the result of policies that are unrelated to health care provision.

Ongoing political changes in Cuba following Fidel Castro’s death offer an opportunity to evaluate his regime’s legacy with regards to health outcomes. The common assessment is that Cuba’s achievements in lowering infant mortality and increasing longevity are among the praiseworthy outcomes of the regime—a viewpoint reinforced by studies published in US medical journals (Campion and Morrissey 1993; Cooper and Kennelly, 2006)1 We argue that some of the praise is unjustified. Although Cuban health statistics appear strong, they overstate the achievements because of data manipulation. Moreover, their strength is not derived from the successful delivery of health care but rather from the particular repressive nature of the regime which comes at the expense of other populations.
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We can’t trust most statistics concerning Cuba. It is impossible for such a small, extremely poor nation to have such good health indices. Cuba's infant mortality rate is kept low by the regime’s tampering with statistics, by a low birth rate of 12.5 births per 1000 population, and by a staggering abortion rate of 77.7 abortions per 1,000 women (0.78 abortions per each live birth. Data based on official statistics from the Cuban government). Cuba had the lowest birth rate and doubles the abortion rate in Latin America. Cuba's abortion rate was the 3rd highest out of the 60 countries studied. (The Incidence of Abortion Worldwide | Guttmacher Institute)

According to UN figures, Cuba's current infant mortality rate places the country 24th from the top in worldwide ranking. According to those same UN figures, in 1958 (the year prior to the revolution), Cuba ranked 13th from the top, worldwide. This meant that pre-Castro Cuba had the 13t lowest infant-mortality rate in the world.
 
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Another health parameter linked to infant mortality, is the maternal mortality rate. Cuba’s maternal mortality rate is 33 deaths per 1,000 live births. This health statistic is high despite the fact that Cuba has the lowest birth rate in Latin America. The doctors are supposed to suggest abortion in risky pregnancies and, in some occasions, must perform the interruption without the consent of the couple. Cuban pediatricians constantly falsify figures for the regime. If an infant dies during his first year, the doctors often report he/she was older (infant mortality rate is define by the number of deaths during the first year of life per thousand live births). Otherwise, such lapses could cost him severe penalties and his job.
 
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Another health parameter linked to infant mortality, is the maternal mortality rate. Cuba’s maternal mortality rate is 33 deaths per 1,000 live births. This health statistic is high despite the fact that Cuba has the lowest birth rate in Latin America. The doctors are supposed to suggest abortion in risky pregnancies and, in some occasions, must perform the interruption without the consent of the couple. Cuban pediatricians constantly falsify figures for the regime. If an infant dies during his first year, the doctors often report he/she was older (infant mortality rate is define by the number of deaths during the first year of life per thousand live births). Otherwise, such lapses could cost him severe penalties and his job.

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Cuban medical care has never recovered from Castro's takeover, when the country’s health care ranked among the world's best. He won the support of the Cuban people by promising to replace Batista’s regime with free elections, and to end corruption. Once in power he made himself dictator and instituted Soviet-style Communism. Cubans not only failed to regain their democratic rights, their economy plunged into centrally planned poverty.

Many treatments we take for granted aren't available at all, except to the Communist elite or foreigners with dollars. For them, Castro keeps hospitals equipped with the best medicines and technologies available.
 
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One of the most readily apparent problems with the health care system in Cuba is the severe shortage of medicines, equipment, and other supplies. This problem is by no means limited to the health sector. Cubans often have tremendous difficulty obtaining basic consumer goods and other necessities, including food.
 
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Another indicator that Cuba couldn't have a good healthcare system is their former enabler: the Soviet Union was clearly well behind the US, UK and other western nations in the area of health care. Many doctors from the Soviet Union who immigrated to the US had great difficulty meeting the minimal standards to be a practicing M.D. in the US. Since the "great" Cuban health care system is modeled on the former Soviet Union's medical education system, the Cuban doctors confront the same problem.
 
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Many physicians had serious complaints about the intrusion of politics into medical treatment and health care decision-making. There is no right to privacy in the physician-patient relationship, no right of informed consent, no right to refuse treatment, and no right to protest or sue for malpractice. Family doctors are also expected to report on the “political integration” of their patients, and to share this information with state authorities.
 
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What is it that leads people to value theoretically "free" health care, even when it's lousy or nonexistent, over a free society that actually delivers health care? You might have to deal with creditors after you go to the emergency room in America, but no one is denied medical care here; even the poorest Americans are getting far better medical services than most Cubans.
 
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Brazil's Bolsonaro takes aim at communist Cuba
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/11/brazils_bolsonaro_takes_aim_at_communist_cuba.html

By Monica Showalter
November 4, 2018

Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro, the conservative former military man painted by the press as a madman, "Tropical Trump," and all that, is showing signs of a strategic mindset.

In his first noticible foreign policy move, he's threatened to just shut down ties with Cuba. According to Reuters:

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian far-right president-elect Jair Bolsonaro said there was no point maintaining diplomatic relations with Cuba because it trampled on human rights and there was no business to be done with the communist-run island.

In an interview published on Friday by Correio Braziliense newspaper, Bolsonaro criticized the Mais Medicos (More Doctors) program under which 11,420 Cuban doctors work in poor or remote parts of Brazil.

He said that 75 percent of the doctors’ salaries was paid to Cuba’s government and their children were not allowed to join them in Brazil, citing the case of a doctor whose three young children had to stay in Cuba.
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The “Mais Medicos” (More Doctors) program is a modern day version of human trafficking, a multi-billion dollar form of international organize crime, a modern-day slavery. President Jair Bolsonaro called attention to the labor conditions of Cuban doctors that the Castroit regime sent to work in Brazil. Doctors’ family remain in Cuba and their passports are retain by the regime officials in Brazil to prevent them from defecting. Bolsonaro promise to change the program to protect doctors’ human rights. He said that Brazil pay the Castroit regime a considerable amount of money for the doctors’ services, but the doctors themselves get pay very little for their work.
 
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Finally, after many year of mismanaging of the country by the leftwing politicians, Brazilians elected a president that is in a path to improve their economy and influence in Latin America. Bolsonaro, a strong supporter of national conservatism, has improve ties with the U.S. and advocated for pro-market policies. He has harshly condemned the Castroit regime and threatens to break relations with it.
 
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23,000 Fewer Doctors A Raw Deal for Cubans
23,000 Fewer Doctors: A Raw Deal for Cubans | Archivo Diario de Cuba

MIRTA FERNÁNDEZ Y PABLO DÍAZ ESPÍ | Madrid | 12 de Noviembre de 2018

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Cuba is, today, the country with the most doctors per thousand inhabitants. There are, however, fewer and fewer health professionals on the island providing primary care. An analysis of the Public Health Statistical Yearbooks corroborates this contradiction, and Cubans' perception that they are dealing with a health system that does not correspond to that portrayed in the official propaganda.

In 2010 the number of doctors assigned to Family Clinics was 36,478, while in 2017 there were only 13,131; that is, a 64% drop in less than a decade.

Thus, we are witness to a scenario in which Cuba, with more doctors per thousand inhabitants (7.5) than countries like Sweden (4.2), Germany (4.1), the USA (2.6) and Japan (2.4) -according to 2014 data from the World Bank-, has decided to drastically cut primary care for the population.
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The deterioration of the Castroit regime healthcare system is self-evident. It is a disaster for both patients and physicians. Cuban doctors are pay a meager salary, and many quit the profession and look for jobs in the tourist industry where they have access to dollars. The ones that remain in the medical profession have to work long hours in deplorable conditions. Many Cuban physicians in overseas missions defect to freedom.

Under the Castroit regime health care monopoly, the state assumes complete control. Average Cubans suffer long waits at government hospitals, while many services and technologies are available only to the Cuban party elite and foreign "health tourists" who pay with hard currency. Moreover, access to such rudimentary medicines as antibiotics and Aspirin can be limited, and patients often must bring their own bed sheets and blankets while in care.
 
1. I commend Cuba for sending doctors to other countries where people badly need medical care.

2. I commend Cuba for trying to offer medical care to all of its own citizens.

3. I am disappointed to learn that many people in Cuba are not receiving appropriate care.

4. When it comes to healthcare, we should stop all talk of politics and try to work together to fix the problems.

5. Our healthcare situation in the United States, let alone in Cuba, needs much improvement. Democrats and Republicans, if they really cared about the people, would work together to find some practical solutions.
 
1. I commend Cuba for sending doctors to other countries where people badly need medical care.

2. I commend Cuba for trying to offer medical care to all of its own citizens.

3. I am disappointed to learn that many people in Cuba are not receiving appropriate care.

4. When it comes to healthcare, we should stop all talk of politics and try to work together to fix the problems.

5. Our healthcare situation in the United States, let alone in Cuba, needs much improvement. Democrats and Republicans, if they really cared about the people, would work together to find some practical solutions.
in reality doctor diplomacy is no more than a trafficking in slave labor, which has become the regime greatest export, bringing more than 8 billion a year. Cuban doctors working abroad receive less than 25% of the wages earned and the rest go to the Castroit regime. A portion of their earnings are retained in Cuba and can be collected only if they return to the island. In odder words you support slave labor.
 
I will be in Holguin, Cuba for the first half of January. I say seeing is believing. What would you recommend seeing for those who want to SEE how the Castroit regime treats its people firsthand?

In response to your post: The Brazilian authorities discovered that some of the "doctors" are really spies with the mission of destabilizing non-communist institutions of the "host" country. In this case, host refers to the organism being fed off of by a parasite. The parasite in this case being the Castroit regime.

in reality doctor diplomacy is no more than a trafficking in slave labor, which has become the regime greatest export, bringing more than 8 billion a year. Cuban doctors working abroad receive less than 25% of the wages earned and the rest go to the Castroit regime. A portion of their earnings are retained in Cuba and can be collected only if they return to the island. In odder words you support slave labor.
 
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I will be in Holguin, Cuba for the first half of January. I say seeing is believing. What would you recommend seeing for those who want to SEE how the Castroit regime treats its people firsthand?

In response to your post: The Brazilian authorities discovered that some of the "doctors" are really spies with the mission of destabilizing non-communist institutions of the "host" country. In this case, host refers to the organism being fed off of by a parasite. The parasite in this case being the Castroit regime.
Try to gain the confidence of the people you talk to, in order that they will open up to you. Then ask about the school and health system that are praise abroad as great achievements of the government. What are their opinion? See if you can convince a teacher or a parent to take you to a school to learn firsthand about it, noticing the condition of it and talking to the students. Try to take photos of the school without been noticed. The main hospital in Holguin is the Lenin Hospital. Try to get access to the hospital by a worker of it or a relative of a patient in it. Persuade patients and relatives to share their stories. Notice the state of the hospital and take photos without been noticed.

Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile fine out that some of the so call “doctors” participated in the recent manifestations in those countries, inciting riots and promoting looting and were expulsed. They are really spies spreading the Castroit regime communism throughout Latin America.
 
Cuba-Brazil: The Battle of the White Coats
Generation Y | An English translation of Yoani Sanchez's blog Generacion Y, from Havana, Cuba

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Cuban doctors who stay in Brazil will be forbidden entry to the island for eight years. (14ymedio)

14ymedio, Yoani Sanchez, Generation Y, Havana, 19 November 2018 – We saw the conflict coming. From the moment Jair Bolsonero won the elections in Brazil, Cuba’s official discourse increased in rhetoric against him and prepared public opinion for the rupture that was imminent. The straw that broke the camel’s back for the Plaza of the Revolution was the statements by the president-elect in which he warned that he would change the conditions of the agreement under which more than 8,300 physicians from Cuba work in Brazil’s Mais Medicos (More Doctors) program.

Last Wednesday, tensions escalated to their highest point when the Cuban Minister of Public Health announced that he was cancelling the contract and removing his professionals from the South American country. The official notice, read out on all of the island’s the news programs, repeated that Bolsonaro’s threats would not be tolerated but deftly ignored some of his words. Particularly those where the rightist leader insisted that the Cuban doctors should receive their full salaries and be able to bring their families to stay with them while they were in the program.
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President Bolsonaro says that he will grant political asylum to all Cuban doctors who request it and protect the doctors’ human rights, should be pay their full salary and be able to bring their family members. The Castroit regime pocket 75% of the salary Brazil pay for the 8,300 Cubans doctors. Those who request asylum will be punished by not allow them to return to the island for at least 8 years and will be separated from their families.

According to Yoani Sanchez “With professionals deployed in more than 60 countries, the money raised by this practice is Cuba’s largest source of foreign currency, estimated to exceed $11 billion annually.” A very lucrative business for the regime indeed.
 
Havana's lies: How Cuba covered up the salaries of Cuban doctors in Brazil, and how it got the PAHO involved
Havana's lies: How Cuba covered up the salaries of Cuban doctors in Brazil, and how it got the PAHO involved | Archivo Diario de Cuba

MIRTA FERNÁNDEZ Y PABLO DÍAZ ESPÍ | Madrid | 21 de Noviembre de 2018

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Cable from the Brazilian embassy in Havana. (DDC) Note: Google removed the image of the cable

In an attempt to respond to what it describes as "libel" about the Más Médicos program and the working conditions of Cuban doctors in Brazil, the official website Cubadebate claimed that they "do not receive salaries" because they are "interns."

"Employees in Brazil do not receive salaries, because they are not employees of the health system, but rather interns who provide services, specialising in primary services in Brazil, which is allowed under the Federal Law of the Más Médicos Program," the source said.

However, cables from the Brazilian embassy in Havana that reconstruct the negotiations for the creation of the Más Médicos program –classified as confidential, kept under wraps for five years, and obtained by DIARIO DE CUBA– tell a different story.
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PAHO has made $73 million off the Cuban doctors working in Brazil, a commission payed by funds withheld from the salaries of the doctors. PAHO supported the Castroit regime agreement scheme that violate international laws on force labor. The health organization is liable for its involvement in the illegal scheme.
 
Health Organization Accused of Trafficking Doctors to Brazil
Health Organization Accused of Trafficking Doctors to Brazil

MONICA PAIS December 3, 2018

(CN) – A class action claims an international health organization conspired with the Cuban government to collect millions of dollars by unlawfully trafficking Cuban doctors to Brazil.

In a federal complaint filed in Miami, lead plaintiffs Ramona Matos Rodriguez, Tatiana Carballo Gomez, Fidel Cruz Rodriguez and Rusela Margarita Rivero Sarabia, claim that the Pan American Health Organization has collected over $75 million since 2013 by enabling and managing the illegal trafficking of Cuban medical professionals.

The organization is a specialized health agency headquartered in Washington, D.C. that works with countries in the Americas to improve and protect people’s health. It is affiliated with the World Health Organization, the Organization of American States and the United Nations.

PAHO’s income is limited to “annual contributions from member governments” such as the U.S., and extraordinary contributions for general expenses and specific purposes in addition to their annual quota from the same member governments, plaintiffs say.

Plaintiffs, who are Cuban physicians, claim that they were paid 10 percent or less of the fees that the Brazilian government paid the organization for their services, while the agency paid at least 85 percent to the Cuban government and retained a brokerage fee of 5 perfect.
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The Castroit regime sees them as white coat slaves, and this is payback for the so call “free education” they received. The regime does the same with their athletes and engineers. When you don’t own the result of your labor, you are enslave.
 
50 Kenyan Doctors in Cuba Facing Starvation
50 Kenyan Doctors in Cuba Facing Starvation - Kenyans.co.ke

By DENIS MWANGI on 20 January 2019

Kenyan doctors who were sent to study in Cuba have complained that the government has neglected them.
The 50 doctors claim that some of their colleagues can barely afford 10am and 4pm cup of tea which cost Kshs 600.
The high cost of calling back home to check on their families has also dented their pockets as it costs Kshs 102 per minute.

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Health Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki signs a deal allowing Kenyan doctors to study in Cuba

This means in a month, one doctor would have spent close to Ksh 30,000 in a month for a ten-minute phone call daily.

“An exercise book you buy at Kshs 30 at home costs an equivalent of Kshs 800 here,” a doctor told The Standard.

According to the medics, the government last sent them money in September 2018.
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The Kenyan Doctors that are receiving training in Cuba, complained about the cost of living and lack of food. The Castroit regime, according to the deal, would provide the doctors with accommodation and meals. But accommodations and food are in short supply. Kenyan Doctors in Cuba have to share a room in a cheap hotel (2 or 3 in a room) and lousy food. The regime has not lived according to the signed accord.
 
Cuban doctors: A modern-day slavery enterprise
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BY MARIA D. GARCIA AND HUGO ACHA
JUNE 12, 2019

Throughout the last few months, there has been increasing evidence of Cuba’s involvement in the Western Hemisphere. Cuba’s core contribution? Its people.

Whether narcotrafficking, supporting foreign military operations, or responding to humanitarian needs with medical doctors, the Cuban regime is profiting billions of dollars via forced human labor. The most egregious example is also the most profitable.

For decades, the Cuban Doctor program has been in place to allegedly help “the poor, downtrodden and those who wouldn’t otherwise have access to medical care” in more than 60 countries around the world. However, they never agreed to sacrifice 90 percent of their wages, proselytize their patients with political propaganda, and adhere to a strict evening curfew.

In Brazil, the program is known as “Mais Médicos.” Instituted in 2013, it was then-President Dilma Rousseff’s response to nationwide unrest over inadequate medical services. The legal rationale was to bring thousands of doctors from other countries to remote, underserved communities in Brazil.
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The Castroit regime practice of sending Cubans doctors to work overseas is akin to human trafficking. These doctors receive less than 20 percent of what other countries are paying for their service, the rest goes to the Castroit regime. Due to the fact that they live their lives in servitude to work in those countries, many doctors in such medical missions defect to freedom. This is a multi-billion dollar form of international organize crime, a modern-day slavery.
 
Bolsonaro: Cuban Slave Doctor Program Created ‘Guerrilla Cells’ in Brazil
Bolsonaro: Cuban Slave Doctors Created 'Guerrilla Cells' | Breitbart

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By FRANCES MARTEL 2 Aug 2019

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced the formation of “Doctors for Brazil” on Thursday, a program designed to replace the Cuban slave doctor program established by predecessor Dilma Rousseff in the country. The Cuban program, “More Doctors,” was established to form “guerrilla cells” in the country, Bolsonaro alleged.

Former President Rousseff, with the support of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), inked a deal with the communist regime of Raúl Castro to establish the Mais Médicos (“More Doctors”) program before she was impeached and removed from office in 2016. The program imported thousands of Cuban doctors into Brazil to work in remote areas. Brasilia paid Havana directly for the doctors, which then passed on only a meager “living stipend” to the doctors.

A group of doctors sued the Brazilian government for their wages in 2017, but the courts at the time blocked the suit. After becoming president in January, Bolsonaro demanded Cuba pay its doctors fairly and let them travel freely and bring their families to Brazil. Cuba responded by ending the program and withdrawing its doctors, though many refused to comply and defected to Brazil.
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Bolsonaro is right on target. Cubans doctors in Brazil were “slaves in white robes”, where 75% of their wages were kept by the Castroit regime, forcing them to work for negligible salaries. There contracts ware ones of serfdom, treated them like property.
 
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