Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧US attacks on Cuban medical missions risk damaging healthcare for poor people in developing countries
https://theconversation.com/us-attacks-on-cuban-medical-missions-risk-damaging-healthcare-for-poor-people-in-developing-countries-278748
from #TheConversation
March 23, 2026
Helen Yaffe
There were tearful scenes in the central American nation of #Honduras on Feb. 23, as locals said goodbye to the Cuban #healthcare professionals who had been treating them for free for around two years. It came after the Honduran government abruptly ended the Cuban #medical mission under pressure from the administration of the #US president, Donald #Trump.
...the export of medical professionals has become vital to the #Cuban economy. For decades the Cuban government sent medical missions around the world as a donation to developing nations. But over the past two decades, #Cuba has developed cooperation agreements under which governments or local authorities pay the Cuban government for the medical services of its healthcare professionals.
