English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
14ymedio, Madrid, 5 January 2023 — Brazil wants to resume the Mais Medicos [More Doctors] program as soon as possible, but collaboration with Cuba, at least as a priority, is up in the air. The Secretary of Primary Care of the Ministry of Health, Nésio Fernandes, said in an interview published this Wednesday by Folha … Continue reading “Brazil Will Resume ‘Mais Medicos’ Without Confirming Cuba’s Participation”
EFE, via 14ymedio, 13 February 2019 — Cuba is willing to let Cuban doctors who decided to stay in Brazil after the end of the Mais Medicos program come home again. Cuban authorities withdrew from the program at the end of last year, telling doctors who decided to stay in Brazil that they would not be … Continue reading “Cuba Will Welcome Home Doctors Who Remained In Brazil After the End of the Mais Medicos Program”
14ymedio, Havana, January 16, 2019 — Yury Leydi Durán Sánchez, a Cuban doctor who worked in the Mais Médicos program in Brazil and decided to remain in the country after Havana’s break with its agreement with Brasilia, has written an open letter to president Jair Bolsonaro to ask that he permit the return of her … Continue reading “The "Deserters" of Mais Medicos Program Ask to Remain in Their Positions While Their Qualifications are Validated”
14ymedio, Havana, 3 December 2018 — At least 3,000 professionals from Brazil’s Mais Médicos (More Doctors) might end up in Mexico if the negotiations between the government of new Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the authorities in Havana are successful. According to the newspapers Estadão and Cubanet, the negotiations began last September, after López Obrador’s election victory, to create … Continue reading “Lopez Obrador and Cuba Negotiate a Mexican “Mais Medicos” Program”
14ymedio, Havana 3 November 2018 – The President-elect of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, questioned on Friday continued diplomatic relations with Cuba once he assumes the presidency and criticized again the situation of Cuban health professionals who are part of the Mais Medicos program in his country. “What business can we do with Cuba? Are we talking … Continue reading “Bolsonaro Asserts That The Mais Medicos Program Finances the Cuban "Dictatorship"”
14ymedio, Miami, August 18, 2018 – Cuban doctor Ramón Domínguez Rivera, originally from the province of Pinar del Río, who was on assignment in Brazil, died on August 16, as reported by his Medical Brigade. Dominguez Rivera worked in Melgaço, Pará state. His body was found three days after he disappeared, according to the local … Continue reading “Another Another Cuban Physician from the Mais Medicos Mission Dies in Brazil”
14ymedio, Miami, 1 December 2017 — The Supreme Court of Brazil decided on Thursday, by a vote of six to two, that the Mais Médicos (More Doctors) program, in which more than 8,000 Cuban doctors participate, is legal under Brazil’s Constitution. The complaint against the program, started by ex-president Dilma Rousseff, was presented by the Brazilian … Continue reading “Brazil’s Supreme Court Rules Mais Medicos Program is Legal”
14ymedio, Havana, 31 January 2023 — The Federal Justice of Brazil authorized the reinstatement of 1,789 Cuban health workers from the controversial Mais Medicos [More Doctors] program, which was canceled in 2018 by then-President Jair Bolsonaro, who considered it a way of injecting money into the Island regime in exchange for doctors who, sometimes, lacked … Continue reading “A Brazilian Court Orders the Rehiring of the 1,789 Cuban Health Workers Who Were Dismissed”
14ymedio, Madrid, 24 August 2022 — On Tuesday, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) published a new report denouncing Cuban medical missions as “Human Trafficking.” The document affirms that this “broadly praised” program is based “on the exploitation of health professionals and serves as an important tool of international propaganda and an important source of income … Continue reading “The United Nations is Asked to Ban the Financing of Cuba’s Medical Missions”
14ymedio, Madrid, 4 April 2022 — French-Mexican doctor Nadine Gasman was proposed by the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico’s president, as a candidate to lead the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) for the period 2023-2028, a designation that the Madrid-based organization Prisoner Defenders (PD) considers scandalous. The applicant is the wife of Joaquín … Continue reading “The Mexican Candidate to Lead PAHO is the Wife of a Cuban Accused of Slavery”
14ymedio, Madrid, 30 March 2022 — A US appeals court has rejected the appeal of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) which tried to paralyze the lawsuit filed by several Cuban doctors against them for facilitating the “human trafficking network” and “slavery” that, they argued, hid the Mais Médicos [More Doctors] program in Brazil. The … Continue reading “US Court Validates Cuban Doctors’ Lawsuit Against PAHO for Slavery”
14ymedio, Madrid, January 26, 2022 — Not only are doctors and health workers affected by the harsh work regimen of the so-called international ’missions’, but so are thousands of other professionals such as teachers, cruise ship workers, architects, engineers, and even artists. During a videoconference, organizations presented the third addendum to the claim of abuses … Continue reading “A Call for Governments that Host Cuban Workers to ‘Say No to Forced Labor’”
14ymedio, Havana, 11 July 2019 — The Brazilian government is shaping a provisional measure so that Cuban doctors exiled in that country can rejoin the health care field in August, according to the Brazilian newspaper Estadao . The objective of the authorities is that the Cuban physicians can return to work providing basic care in the Unified Health … Continue reading “Cuban Doctors in Exile in Brazil Will Return to Work in Health Centers”
14ymedio, Havana, April 24, 2019 — The Cuban Government decided to withdraw its doctors and other health professionals who were working in El Salvador, after the Medical Profession Oversight Board (JVPM) notified the Attorney General of the Republic of an alleged illegal practice of the profession by Cubans in the Central American country. The Island’s … Continue reading “Cuba Withdraws its Doctors From El Salvador”
14ymedio, Marcelo Hernández, Havana, 8 April 2019 — Cuban authorities have given officials instructions to avoid the concept of “Special Period” when addressing citizens, according to 14ymedio sources in state agencies. “They met with the administrative cadres to tell them that very difficult times are coming,” a worker from the Provincial Food Industry Company in … Continue reading “It Is Forbidden To Say "Special Period"”
