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Cuba’s ambassador to that country, Juan Loforte, says the Cuban Government did not receive money from the agreement. 14ymedio, Havana, March 5, 2026 – This Thursday the last group of 172 members of the medical brigade left Honduras, a program for which the country spent $10,259,617 over two years, including salaries and housing, transportation, and … Continue reading “Amid Accusations of Espionage and Million-Dollar Expenses, 172 Cuban Doctors Leave Honduras”

The country follows in the footsteps of Guatemala, Antigua and Barbuda, as well as Guyana and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The Government of Honduras has ended the agreement with Cuban doctors promoted two years ago by then-president Xiomara Castro, an ally of the Island’s regime. Communications Secretary José Augusto Argueta confirmed that the departure … Continue reading “Honduras Ends Agreement with Cuban Doctors and Threatens to Investigate Them”

14ymedio, Havana, November 12, 2024 — The Secretariat of Strategic Planning of Honduras, the entity in charge of hiring 96 Cuban doctors to provide services in that country, “does not maintain an employment relationship” with the specialists, nor has it “made payments through its payroll.” The information appears in two official memoranda to which the … Continue reading “‘Who Pays the Salary of Cuban Doctors in Honduras?””

14ymedio, Havana, 14 August 2024 — Honduras will send 170 general practitioners to Cuba to train in one of the 23 specialties offered by Cuban universities. The arrival of these health workers occurs through a scholarship program, similar to the one Cuba also has with other countries such as Mexico. For this first group, the … Continue reading “Despite the Controversy, Honduras Will Pay More Than One Million Dollars to Cuba for 170 Doctors”

Furthermore, it is a violation of national regulations that only allow free foreign medical brigades 14ymedio, Havana, April 13, 2024 —   The Medical College of Honduras (CMH), which has spoken out on several occasions against the hiring of Cuban medical brigades, published a statement on Thursday accusing the Government of Xiomara Castro of violating … Continue reading “The Hiring of Cuban Doctors Violates the Constitution of Honduras”

The institution claims that specialists were practicing without the required qualifications and are seeking help from the United States for the investigation. 14ymedio, Havana, March 26, 2026 / The Public Ministry (MP) of Guatemala is investigating more than 60 complaints against Cuban doctors, related to impersonation of professional qualifications, failure to meet legal requirements, and … Continue reading “The Public Ministry of Guatemala Is Investigating More Than 60 Complaints Against Cubans Who Were Working As Doctors”

The president of the Italian region, who met this Monday with the U.S. chargé d’affaires in Cuba Mike Hammer, is open to hiring healthcare workers “independently.” 14ymedio, Madrid, February 24, 2026 –The president of the region of Calabria (Italy) appears determined. Not only does he reject breaking the agreement with Cuba, as the United States … Continue reading “Calabria Rejects U.S. Proposal to Get Rid of Cuban Doctors”

A woman with dengue died in La Benéfica in Havana “for lack of medical care” 14ymedio, Madrid, 18 October 2024 — The case of Days María Jiménez, who died last Monday at the Miguel Enríquez Surgical Clinical Hospital, known as La Benéfica, in the Havana neighborhood of Luyanó, gives the measure of the dengue situation … Continue reading “Dengue Patients Die in Cuba While Honduras Now Has a Vaccine”

14ymedio, Madrid, 6 April 2023 — Eleven countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, including Cuba, agreed on Wednesday to create an alliance to jointly confront inflation. In that virtual meeting convened by the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, made several proposals, which he described as … Continue reading “At the Summit Against Inflation, Diaz-Canel Offers Barter and a Thousand Cuban Doctors”

14ymedio, Madrid, 29 March 2023 — The 123 Cuban teachers who will train teachers in Honduras will cost that country approximately 406 dollars a month, according to the Honduran newspaper El Heraldo on Wednesday in an article in which several analysts describe the investment on the part of one of the poorest countries on the … Continue reading “‘It’s Not for Solidarity That Cuba Sells Its Expensive Teacher Program to Honduras’”

14ymedio, Olea Gallardo, Havana, 2 January 2023 — Honduras will receive 10 Cuban “high-level education professionals” to help develop a new academic curriculum design that “will completely change the educational model.” This was reported by the Government of Tegucigalpa after the signing of an agreement between the two countries, last Tuesday. The agreement will last for … Continue reading “Honduras Hires Cuba’s Services to ‘Rebuild’ Its Education System”