English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
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”
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”
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”
In the state, a shortage of specialists and a shortage of medicines prevail, an opponent denounces. 14ymedio, Mexico City, 21 May 2024 — More than two years after Mexico formalized its hiring of Cuban doctors, none of the 929 specialists who have arrived in the country have been sent to San Luis Potosí. Thus, “the … Continue reading “Mexico Fails To Fulfill Its Promise To Send Cuban Doctors to the State of San Luis Potosí”
The leader of the conservative opposition details his accusations against López Obrador´s Government. 14ymedio, Mexico, May 19, 2024 — The Government of Mexico is secretly financing the Cuban regime through the importing of doctors since the COVID-19 pandemic, according the leader of the National Action Party (PAN in Spanish) in the Senate, Julen Rementería, speaking … Continue reading “Mexico Finances the Cuban Dictatorship by Paying So-Called Doctors Inflated Salaries”
The director of the Mexican Social Security Institute announces the arrival of another 123 health workers after a meeting in Havana with Miguel Díaz-Canel The opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez accuses the Government of “financing a dictatorship” 14ymedio/EFE, Mexico City, 13 May 2024 — “Strengthen health cooperation between both countries.” With those words, Mexico defined in … Continue reading “Mexico Accelerates Its Import of Cuban Doctors To Reach the ‘Goal’ of 1,200”
The opposition candidate accused the Cuban regime of keeping the profits of the health workers sent to Mexico 14ymedio, Adyr Corral, Mexico, 6 May 2024 — The main candidate of the opposition for the presidency of Mexico, Xóchitl Gálvez, said that if she wins, she will not hire more Cuban doctors, as the Government of … Continue reading “Opposition Candidate Xochitl Galvez Promises Not to Hire Cuban Doctors if She Wins the Presidency of Mexico”
14ymedio, Ángel Salinas, Mexico, 2 April 2024 — Mexican doctors belonging to the Institute of Health and Welfare (Insabi) denounce the numerous dismissals of national staff, while the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador prepares to receive another group of Cuban specialists. They will join their 806 compatriots, with the intention of establishing a base … Continue reading “Mexico Fires Hundreds of Its Own Doctors As It Prepares To Receive More Cuban Doctors”
14ymedio/EFE, Mexico, 12 September 2023 — The Government of Mexico will extend for another year the agreement with Cuba to hire specialists from the Island. The director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), Zoé Robledo, insisted this Tuesday that it is to cover the staff deficit in public health. In the same appearance, at … Continue reading “Mexico Will Extend the Agreement To Receive Doctors From Cuba for One Year”
