English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
The group is part of the 428 scholarship recipients who have been on the Island since 2021. 14ymedio, Ángel Salinas, Mexico City, July 7, 2025 — A group of 25 Mexicans completed their specialty in surgery last June at the Cuban Institute of Ophthalmology (ICO) Ramón Pando Ferrer, in Havana. The students are part of … Continue reading “Mexico Paid More Than $1 Million for 25 Medical Students To Specialize”
The newspaper ‘El Universal’ has obtained official information through the transparency portal 14ymedio, Madrid, June 18, 2025 — In just two years, the amount of money paid by Mexico to Cuba for health services has increased by 70.3 million euros. According to information published this Tuesday by El Universal, the total amount corresponding to contracts … Continue reading “New Documents Reveal That Mexico Has Paid Almost 93 Million Euros for Cuban Doctors”
A health worker denounces the lack of medicines and specialists in communities in the Mexican state of Sonora 14ymedio, Ángel Salinas, Mexico City, 3 December 2024 — The 96 Cuban doctors that the Mexican Government boasts of having incorporated into the Sonora hospitals are not even remotely sufficient to solve the state’s problems. “Neither with … Continue reading “A Nurse Questions the Lack of Cuban Doctors in Remote Areas in Mexico When the Arrival of 96 is Announced”
14ymedio, Mexico City, 25 October 2024 — Mexico announced this Thursday the arrival in Quintana Roo of another 173 Cuban doctors, who join the 36 already established in that state, to reinforce care in the health centers. Mexican authorities are waiting for another 30 doctors from the Island to distribute them in 13 hospitals in … Continue reading “The Hiring of Cuban Doctors in Mexico Continues as Another 173 Arrive in Quintana Roo”
14ymedio, Ángel Salinas, Mexico City, 8 October 8, 2024 — A group of 23 Cuban doctors have been providing care since October 2 in a half-finished hospital in the municipality of Guaymas, state of Sonora (Mexico). At the same time as the consultations, the doctors have to endure the sounds of construction, and a pharmacy … Continue reading “Mexico Sends 23 Cuban Doctors to a Hospital Still Under Construction”
14ymedio, Mexico City, 6 October 2024 — The Government of Mexico pays $5,188 per month for each of the 3,101 doctors it hired from Cuba to offer services in rural areas. The expenditure amounts to a total of 16,087,988 dollars each month. A large part of the money is used to cover transport services, food … Continue reading “Mexico Pays More Than 5,000 Dollars Monthly for Each of the 3,100 Doctors Hired From Cuba”
14ymedio, Mexico City, 26 September 2024 — “If they die, you die.” This was the threat a group of hitmen made to several Mexican doctors at a hospital of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), located in Villa Unión, Sinaloa. The doctors were forced on September 15 to treat drug traffickers with gunshot wounds after … Continue reading “Cuba Withdraws Its Doctors From a Town in Sinaloa, Mexico, Due to Clashes Between Drug Traffickers”
Between July 2022 and 2023, three contracts were signed between both countries, the last for 1,636,308 euros per month From 2022 to December of last year, 48 doctors have fled 14ymedio, Mexico City, 22 September 2024 — The Government of Mexico paid Cuba 21,590,853 euros for 610 specialists as part of three agreements signed between … Continue reading “Mexico Paid Cuba More Than 21 Million Euros for 610 Medical Specialists for Almost Two Years”
1,550 of the 5,000 doctors hired by the López Obrador government have already arrived. 14ymedio, Mexico City, 23 August 2024 — the arrival, on Wednesday, of some 200 Cuban doctors at Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA), there are now almost 600 specialists from the island sent to Mexico in just 20 days. Two similar groups … Continue reading “Mexico Receives Cuban Minister of Health and a New Group of 200 Doctors From the Island”
14ymedio, Ángel Salinas, Mexico City, August 29, 2024 — The Government of Mexico accelerated the arrival of Cuban doctors for one month before the end of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s mandate. The goal is to have 5,223 doctors “as soon as possible,” an official confirmed to 14ymedio. The second stage provides for the “arrival of … Continue reading “Mexico López Obrador Administration hired 5,223 Cuban Doctors; Another 198 Arrived on Tuesday”
14ymedio, Ángel Salinas, Mexico City, 4 August 2024 — Last Friday, a contingent of 200 Cuban doctors crowded into the corridor of the migration area at Felipe Ángeles International Airport in the state of Mexico. The group, said Ambassador Marcos Rodríguez Costa, will be distributed in 19 states with the “noble work of saving lives.” … Continue reading “Mexico Receives Another 200 Cuban Doctors To Work in 19 States”
The specialists arrived in the country in 2022, after being originally hired for one year, although their stay was extended for two 14ymedio, Ángel Salinas, Mexico City, July 28, 2024 –In October, seven Cuban doctors will stop work in hospitals located in the Mexican state of Campeche. According to Eva Baeza Fuentes, president of the … Continue reading “Seven Cuban Doctors Will Return to the Island After the End of Their Contract in Mexico”
The island’s government only gives doctors a stipend to cover their basic needs. 14ymedio, Ángel Salinas, Mexico City, July 16, 2024 — The Government of Mexico announced on Tuesday what the “strengthening of health cooperation” agreed with Cuba last May translates into: in the coming months it will import another 2,700 doctors from the Island. … Continue reading “Mexico Hires Another 2,700 Cuban Doctors, in Addition to the 1,200 Previously Agreed On”
The Mexican state of San Luis Potosí has received 10 of the Cuban specialists out of 50 that it expects in the coming months 14ymedio, Madrid, 25 June 2024 — The governor of the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí, Ricardo Gallardo, told local media this Monday that “there are 10 Cuban specialists starting operations” … Continue reading “Mexico Sends Cuban Psychiatrists and Dermatologists to a State That Needs Neurologists and Orthopedists”
14ymedio, Ángel Salinas, Mexico, 7 June 2024 — Cuban specialists are filling positions in Tamaulipas rejected by Mexican doctors because the work clinics are “far from the state capital,” said Marggid Rodríguez Avendaño, coordinator of the IMSS State Welfare. As the director of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Zoé Robledo, said last April, … Continue reading “Mexico Fills Positions for National Doctors With Cuban Specialists”
