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CubaBrief: How communists exploit doctors, manipulate health …

WebThe statistics and numbers that the international community has access to with relation to the Cuban healthcare system have been manipulated by the Castro regime. Katherine Hirschfeld, an anthropologist, in Health, Politics, and Revolution in Cuba Since 1898 described how her idealistic preconceptions were dashed by 'discrepancies …

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CubaBrief: The Economist reveals data on COVID-19 excess deaths …

Web354 vs 550. Once again, it has been discovered that the regime in Cuba substantially under-counted deaths during a disease outbreak that killed huge numbers of Cubans. This has been the case in the past with dengue, cholera, and now with COVID-19. Two numbers stand out: 354 and 550. In the United States, which had well publicized …

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CubaBrief: How international health agencies kowtowing to Cuba

WebPAHO has been caught up in scandals involving the failure to report a viral outbreak of Zika in Cuba in 2017, and human trafficking. The WHO subsidiary was sued, because PAHO was profiting off the trafficking of Cuban doctors in an arrangement with the Castro regime that Mary O' Grady described in her April 12, 2020 OpEd in The Wall …

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CubaBrief: Cuba, New Zealand and COVID-19: A tale of two …

WebThe CubaBrief published on June 18th examined the claim that the Castro regime had a " more community focused health system and superior health workforce investment " that New Zealand could learn from, according to a respected health commentator based in Otaihanga on the Kapiti Coast. Th

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CubaBrief: Myth of Cuban Health Care. Event: “Cuba will be free. I

WebDaniel Raisbeck and John Osterhoudt at Reason on Monday April 18, 2022 premiered a documentary on "The Myth of Cuban Health Care" that is required viewing.Not mentioned in the report is that other Latin American countries ( Costa Rica, and Chile ) rate higher than the U.S. on international indices with regards to their healthcare systems, but …

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CubaBrief: Comparative look at COVID-19 responses and …

WebOn March 19, 2020 Cuba's official media reported, "authorities of the Cuban ministry of tourism (MINTUR) submitted the prevention and control plan to tackle COVID-19, and stated that the country is 'ready to receive those customers who decide to come to the island of their own free will.'Barbara Cruz, marketing director of MINTUR, said at a press …

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CubaBrief: On the question of exploiting Cuba's medical workers …

WebThe Inter-American Dialogue's publication the Latin American Advisor on August 4, 2020 asked an important question, "Is the Government of Cuba Exploiting Medical Workers?" to a number of experts and some of the answers were troubling because they went beyond questions of opinion, but fell into questions of facts.. Bernard Baruch, an …

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CubaBrief: At least 13 Cuban psychiatric patients died last week at …

WebThere are reports from different health care professionals in Holguin on the cause of the deaths: two cited "bronchopneumonia and bronchial aspiration", and another cited that they had "died from malnutrition, anemia and bronchopneumonia, and "in short, due to poor care," said one of the doctors, who also alluded to the cold and the lack of …

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CubaBrief: If forced labor of Cuban doctors is a contemporary …

WebHuman Rights Watch has released an important report titled "Cuba: Repressive Rules for Doctors Working Abroad" that highlights the dire conditions Cuban doctors are subjected to by the Castro regime.“Cuban doctors deployed to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic provide valuable services to many communities, but at the expense …

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CubaBrief: New study of brains of US diplomats struck down by …

WebThe mystery surrounding the "Havana syndrome" that has impacted scores of Canadian and U.S. diplomats stationed in Havana, Cuba continues. As does the lack of cooperation by Cuban officials, who have written it off as mass hysteria.

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CubaBrief: Uncomfortable truths about Cuban healthcare, doctors …

WebForty Jamaican medical students in Cuba are pleading with the Jamaican government to come home, "claiming that food shortages, xenophobia, and limited sanitisation products continue to threaten their mental and physical health.The students said that the COVID-19 pandemic has further compounded the shortages. Jamaica closed its …

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CubaBrief: Does forced labor of Cuban doctors and shipyard …

WebIronically, the World Health Organization (WHO) and its American subsidiary, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) published a hand out in 2012 on human trafficking that includes the above chart on "health and well being at various stages of trafficking." This is ironic because in December 2018, the PAHO was named in a class …

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CubaBrief: Communist Cuba Enslaves Physicians and NGO …

WebMarion Smith, executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, writing in The Wall Street Journal on December 25, 2019 sums up the nature of the Castro regime's humanitarian doctors program as "a system that combines slavery with espionage." Below you will find his OpEd, followed by the October 18, 2019 Race and …

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CubaBrief: Looking back at Fidel Castro five years after the tyrant's

WebCuban doctors trafficked by the Castro regime. Global Voices reported on November 22, 2021 that "Cuba's million-dollar health business is based on two pillars: a high-quality service on the island for foreigners, and the massive exportation of health professionals through medical missions. This lucrative model has allowed the …

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Continuity and Change, the imponderable and unpredictable.

WebContinuity and Change, Predictions and Imponderables. General Raul Castro’s recent absence from the funeral of an important comrade from the Sierra Maestra days generated lots of speculation about the general’s health.

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More Medics Join ICC 'Slavery' Case Against Cuba

WebThe word "slavery" is a powerful term with heavy baggage and should not be used lightly. Ms. Urmila Bhoola, the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, along with Ms Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children, sent …

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CubaBrief: U.S. State Department imposes visa restrictions on …

WebYesterday, September 30th, the State Department announced that it was "imposing visa restrictions under the Immigration and Nationality Act Section 212(a)(3)(C) on Cuban officials responsible for certain exploitative and coercive labor practices as part of Cuba’s overseas medical missions program." The Center for a Free Cuba considers this …

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Bernie Sanders gets facts wrong about Castro’s literacy, health …

WebBefore Fidel Castro took power In 1959, Cuba already had decent educational and healthcare systems, according to U.N. statistics, and its rising literacy rates tracked with the rest of Latin America, writes the op-ed authors from the Center for a Free Cuba, in disputing Bernie Sanders' claim that the Castro regime brought "good things" to the …

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U.S.-Cuba Clinical Drug Trial (Scam) is Not the First

WebLast week, in an article entitled, "In a first, U.S. trial to test Cuban lung-cancer vaccine," The Washington Post's health reporter wrote: "The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first clinical trial to test a Cuban drug in …

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Cuban-Americans in N.J. cheer news of Castro's death

WebCuban-Americans gathered Saturday in communities throughout New Jersey to celebrate the death of Fidel Castro, saying now is the time for the world to take steps to bring freedom to their homeland. “It’s one step for the liberation of Cuba,” said Tony Romero, a Vineland businessman who owns Budget

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CubaBrief: What role do Cuba & Russia play in the "Havana …

WebThe fact is that if Russians are harming U.S. diplomats in Havana the Dirección General De Inteligencia (), the Castro regime's spy agency, would know it, and most likely be collaborating with their decades long allies.This would be in violation of Havana's duty to protect diplomats stationed in Cuba, but it would not be the first time …

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CUBA BRIEF: UM Suspends Pro-Castro lecture. Boston Globe's …

WebThe University of Miami Miller School of Medicine lecture by Dr. Roberto Villafranca [University of Medical Sciences, Cuba] was advertised to be heldtomorrow, October 18th. According to the UM announcement, Dr. Villafranca was to speak on “[t]he Cuban National Health System [which] is highly structu

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