Cuba to pull doctors out of Brazil after President-elect Bolsonaro comments

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Cuba to pull doctors out of Brazil after President-elect Bolsonaro comments

Reuters in Havana
Wed 14 Nov 2018 18.19 GMT

Cuba has announced it will withdraw thousands of its doctors from Brazil after the South American nation’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro questioned their training and demanded changes to their contracts.

The far-right Bolsonaro, who takes office on 1 January, said in an interview this month that the 11,420 Cuban doctors working in poor and remote parts of Brazil could only stay if they received 100% of their pay and their families could join them.

Under the terms of the agreement with Cuba, brokered via the Pan-American Health Organization, Havana receives the bulk of the doctors’ wages.

Bolsonaro threatened to break off diplomatic relations with Havana over the program, saying it trampled on the rights of the doctors by handing the Cuban government 75% of their pay and denying mothers the right to have their children with them.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/14/cuba-doctors-brazil-withdraw-jair-bolsonaro

[dhill926]

1. Good...this fascist should be shunned...

as should ours...

[sinkingfeeling]

2. The real losers are the poor in remote parts of Brazil. They will have

no health care.

[GatoGordo]

3. They aren't doctors

They are not recognized as physicians anywhere. At best, they are the equivalent of medics.

Regardless, they are the main cash cow for the Castroists. To the tune of $10 billion per year.

Cuban Doctors Revolt: ‘You Get Tired of Being a Slave’
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/americas/brazil-cuban-doctors-revolt.html

[Bacchus4.0]

4. Good, Brazil no longer participating in Cuba slave pimping program

https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/applied-and-social-sciences-magazines/slave-renting

Slave trading produced an ancillary institution called slave renting, or slave hiring. As slave traders transported slaves and distributed them throughout the South, some whites developed a need for short-term slave labor, but did not wish to own slaves, in some cases because they wanted to avoid the stigma of slave ownership. Other whites who could not afford to own slaves did the next best thing—they rented slaves, especially during the harvest season to clear land for cultivation. Some slave owners rented out or hired out their slaves when the cycle of crop production did not demand their intensive labor. Thus, while slave owners and slave renters had various reasons for engaging in the practice, most either wanted to maximize their ownership of slaves or needed slaves on a temporary basis.

The process of slave hiring or slave renting began during the early 1700s as an informal practice based on verbal agreements between slave owners and renters. Later, the practice expanded and became more formal, and written agreements became necessary. Owners and renters signed contracts obligating a single slave or group of slaves to perform work for a specific time period—from a few months to a year—and for an agreed-upon amount of money. Some owners advertised in newspapers the availability of slaves for rent or hire, with prices ranging from $100 per year for an agricultural worker, to as much as $600 per year for a skilled slave. Slaves who were blacksmiths, carpenters, and brick masons typically demanded the highest prices.

[GatoGordo]

5. Bolso said, "Let them get paid in full". Diaz-Canel said, "Nope!"

Nor would the Castroists allow the physicians to bring their families (including young children) along with them on their assignments.

http://www.noticierodigital.com/2018/11/bolsonaro-cuba-explota-los-medicos-van-al-exterior/

Bolsonaro: Cuba "exploits" doctors who go abroad
November 14, 2018

ND / Nov 14 2018.- In a series of tweets, the president-elect of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, indicated that the departure of Cuban doctors from the "Más Médicos" program (equivalent in some measure to the "Barrio Adentro" program in Venezuela) It is due to the fact that the Cuban government does not want these doctors to collect their salaries in full and also to meet with their relatives in Brazil.

Bolsonaro said in a series of tweets that "we condition the continuity of the 'More doctors' program to the application of a test of professional capacity, and that the salary of Cuban professionals go directly to them; Today, most of it is destined to the dictatorship. And freedom to bring their families. Unfortunately, Cuba did not accept. "

The president-elect added that "currently, Cuba keeps most of the salaries of Cuban doctors and restricts the freedoms of these professionals and their families. They are withdrawing from More Doctors because they did not accept to review this absurd situation, which violates human rights. Regrettable".

The president-elect of Brazil added that "in addition to exploiting its citizens by not fully paying their salaries for professionals, the Cuban dictatorship demonstrates great irresponsibility by not considering the negative impacts on the lives and health of Brazilians and the integrity of the Cubans".

Hours before, the Government of Cuba pointed out that the departure of Cuban physicians from the Más Médicos program was due to the fact that Bolsonaro demanded "unacceptable conditions" for the permanence of doctors.
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