US Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently attacked Cuba’s international medical brigades. On 25 February, the Miami-born Cuban announced any country’s officials found accepting Cuban medical solidarity may lose their US visas.
This is not first time a US administration has attacked Cuba’s medical solidarity, as US President George W Bush imposed a 2006 programme to encourage Cuban doctors to defect to the US. The Obama administration ended that initiative in 2017, but the Biden administration renewed it in 2022.
However, such a restriction could have a terrible impact on Africa as most of its countries benefit from Cuban medical support.
In this video, we hear firsthand from a Cuban doctor based in Burkina Faso on whether Cuba’s programme amounts to ‘slavery.’
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https://wassermanschultz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2835