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Mexico Has Paid Havana About 10 Million Dollars for 718 Cuban Medical Specialists

14ymedio, Ángel Salinas, Mexico, 15 July 2023 — The Mexican Government paid Cuba $9,667,115 between July 2022 and May of this year for a contingent of 718 doctors, according to a source from the Ministry of Health who requested anonymity. Of the specialists, 128 are still receiving training or processing the necessary documentation to practice, … Continue reading “Mexico Has Paid Havana About 10 Million Dollars for 718 Cuban Medical Specialists”

More Than 200,000 Doses of the Cuban Vaccine Abdala Will Expire This Summer in Mexico

14ymedio, Mexico City, 11 July 2023 — About 227,449 doses of the Cuban vaccine Abdala, which the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador bought in 2022 from the Island as a booster drug against COVID-19 for the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Jalisco and Puebla, will expire between July and August of this year. “The … Continue reading “More Than 200,000 Doses of the Cuban Vaccine Abdala Will Expire This Summer in Mexico”

Portuguese Government Wants To Reinforce Public Health With 300 Doctors From Cuba

EFE/14ymedio, Havana, July 5, 2023 — The Portuguese government plans to strengthen the country’s public health system by hiring 300 Cuban doctors, who have already started the necessary procedures, the Portuguese newspaper Jornal de Notícias reported on Wednesday . According to this medium, the Ministry of Health intends to remedy the shortcomings of the National Health Service … Continue reading “Portuguese Government Wants To Reinforce Public Health With 300 Doctors From Cuba”

Another Mexican State Wants To Remove a Group of Cuban Doctors Because of Their Poor Skills

14ymedio, Ángel Salinas, Mexico, 9 June 9, 2023 — In the states of Tlaxcala and Morelos, Mexican doctors have expressed their dissatisfaction with the low level of preparation and the high salaries of health workers hired by the Government of Mexico from Cuba. Blanca Águila Lima, the head of a national workers’ union of the … Continue reading “Another Mexican State Wants To Remove a Group of Cuban Doctors Because of Their Poor Skills”

At the Summit Against Inflation, Diaz-Canel Offers Barter and a Thousand Cuban Doctors

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”

And Now, the Commodification of Cuban Music

14ymedio, Elías Amor Bravo, Economist, 30 March 2023 — The Ministry of Culture (MINCULT) says that it is being “improved,” but don’t believe it. What it really wants is to be an agent for artists and musicians. Late post-castrism has hung the “For Sale” sign on the entire productive and obsolete apparatus of the Marxist-Leninist … Continue reading “And Now, the Commodification of Cuban Music”

Mexico Buys Medicines From Cuba for More Than $84 Million

14ymedio, Ángel Salinas, Mexico, 13 February 2022 — The Government of Mexico announced the purchase in Cuba of medicines for anesthesiology, pulmonology, ophthalmology and cancer treatment. According to the Secretary of Health, Jorge Alcocer Varela, for the “already consolidated” acquisition, the Island will receive 84,425 dollars as part of the new health agreement that was … Continue reading “Mexico Buys Medicines From Cuba for More Than $84 Million”

Outrage Grows in Mexico Over the Award of the Order of the Aztec Eagle to Cuban President Diaz-Canel

14ymedio, Mexico, 11 February 2023 — Mexicans did not welcome the reception of Miguel Díaz-Canel by his counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador this Saturday in Campeche, in the southeast of the country. The rejection increased when it became known that the Cuban president will be decorated with the degree of the prestigious Mexican Order of … Continue reading “Outrage Grows in Mexico Over the Award of the Order of the Aztec Eagle to Cuban President Diaz-Canel”

‘Here We Do Not Receive a Salary, Only a Stipend’, Admits a Cuban Doctor in Mexico

14ymedio, Mexico, February 2, 2023 — The 620 Cuban doctors who have been in Mexico since January 27 receive from the Government of Cuba “a stipend for their needs.” With those words spoken in an improvised interview, uploaded to YouTube by the newspaper Reforma, the Cuban geriatrician Juan Andrés Echemendía, stressed: “We do not receive … Continue reading “‘Here We Do Not Receive a Salary, Only a Stipend’, Admits a Cuban Doctor in Mexico”

Bringing in Cuban Teachers is ‘Ideological Interference’ Denounces the Honduran Opposition

14ymedio, Havana, 13 January 2023 — The National Party of Honduras (PNH) described the hiring of 123 Cuban professionals in Education by the Government of Xiomara Castro as ideological interference. The opposition denounced that the objectives are “doubtful” and questioned the lack of transparency in the disclosure of the terms of the contracts. The Honduran government signed a … Continue reading “Bringing in Cuban Teachers is ‘Ideological Interference’ Denounces the Honduran Opposition”

Cuban Medical Staff Abroad Falls From 30,000 to 23,000 in a Year

14ymedio, Madrid, 4 January 2022 — “Internationalism is a principle that has characterized Public Health in Cuba since the beginning of the first Cuban medical collaboration, in 1963, in Algeria,” the Cuban Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday on its Twitter account. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs left a significant fact about it yesterday, much celebrated this … Continue reading “Cuban Medical Staff Abroad Falls From 30,000 to 23,000 in a Year”

Fifty of the 500 Cuban Doctors Hired in August Arrive in Italy

14ymedio, Havana, 29 December 2022 — A first group of 50 Cuban doctors hired by Calabria last August has arrived at their destination three months late. In an announcement through his social networks, the president of that Italian region, Roberto Occhiuto, took the opportunity to defend the controversial decision to import health workers from the Island. … Continue reading “Fifty of the 500 Cuban Doctors Hired in August Arrive in Italy”

Three Cubans Who Arrived in the United States a Month Ago Fear Being Deported

14ymedio, Havana, 20 November 2022 — Cubans Pedro Yasmani, Raúl Santana and Daisel Pons, who crossed the Rio Grande to the United States on October 17, remain in a detention centre in southern Texas and fear being “deported,” they told Univision News 23. “They chose us at random,” Yasmani complained. The Cuban said that after … Continue reading “Three Cubans Who Arrived in the United States a Month Ago Fear Being Deported”

Mexico Tries to Convince its Medical Students to Stay in Cuba with 1,500 Euros

14ymedio, Havana, 20 September 2022 — The National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) will award 1,500 euros as “additional one-time support” to Mexican medical students who accept controversial scholarships to study a specialty in Cuba. According to the report, which doesn’t specify the number of beneficiaries, the support is to encourage “permanence in their … Continue reading “Mexico Tries to Convince its Medical Students to Stay in Cuba with 1,500 Euros”

Report Reveals ‘The Military Truth Behind the Cuban Medical Missions in Mexico

14ymedio, Madrid, August 26, 2022 — The characteristics of the last Cuban medical brigade imported by Mexico, which began to arrive in the last week of July, offer no doubt about the spurious interests behind the facade of humanitarian collaboration with which they have been sold to public opinion. “They are all military” and “none … Continue reading “Report Reveals ‘The Military Truth Behind the Cuban Medical Missions in Mexico”