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Cuba has said it will pull thousands of its doctors from Brazil, indicating a sharp downturn in relations between the nations after the election of far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro last month.<\/span> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/cuba-doctors-brazil-jair-bolsonaro-president-far-right-a8634396.html Cuba has said it will pull thousands of its doctors from Brazil, indicating a sharp downturn in relations between the nations after the election of far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro last month. The communist state announced it would stop the \u201cMas Medicos\u201d or \u201cMore Doctors\u201d scheme shortly after Mr Bolsonaro said he would impose new conditions on the doctors… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,80,81,82,83],"class_list":["post-2661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-brazil","tag-cuba","tag-doctors","tag-medicine","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/span>The communist state announced it would stop the \u201cMas Medicos\u201d or \u201cMore Doctors\u201d scheme shortly after Mr Bolsonaro said he would impose new conditions on the doctors when he takes office on 1 January.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>For the programme to continue, the 11,420 Cuban doctors must receive their salaries directly from Brazil and be able to bring their families with them during their assignments, he said.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Under the terms of the current agreement with Cuba, which is overseen by the World Health Organisation , Havana receives the bulk of the doctors\u2019 wages.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Critics say the restrictions on the doctors bringing their families with them was designed to prevent them from emigrating.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Mr Bolsonaro has also questioned the qualifications of the Cuban doctors, saying they would have to renew their licences in Brazil.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Cuba\u2019s health ministry rejected Bolsonaro\u2019s comments as \u201ccontemptuous and threatening\u201d in a statement announcing its withdrawal from the programme.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>\u201cThese unacceptable conditions make it impossible to maintain the presence of Cuban professionals in the programme,\u201d the ministry said.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Cuba generates billions of dollars through charging fees for doctors working abroad, which help to keep the Communist nation\u2019s healthcare system free to access.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Mas Medicos started five years ago under leftist President Dilma Roussef and serves as a crucial link from the cash-strapped island to South America\u2019s largest economy<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"