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applegrove

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Thu Jul 9, 2026, 06:31 PM Thursday

U.S. Targets Cuba's Army of Overseas Doctors

U.S. Targets Cuba’s Army of Overseas Doctors

July 9, 2026 at 5:09 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 13 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2026/07/09/u-s-targets-cubas-army-of-overseas-doctors/


“The Trump administration’s pressure campaign against Cuba’s Communist government is zeroing in on the island’s most valuable export and one of its few remaining sources of hard currency: the doctors and nurses it deploys abroad,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The U.S. has blocked fuel shipments, sanctioned and indicted its top officials and curbed money Cubans abroad send to relatives back home. Now, the effort to throttle Cuba’s decades-old medical missions—through which Havana gets payments to export doctors and nurses to more than 50 countries—threatens billions of dollars in revenue for a country already in economic free fall.”
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U.S. Targets Cuba's Army of Overseas Doctors (Original Post) applegrove Thursday OP
A big FU to TSF's regime. sinkingfeeling Thursday #1
We have truly become a despicable nation. Biophilic Thursday #2
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Evil incarnate Ponietz Thursday #4
If they would just sign a free trade deal with Cuba it applegrove Thursday #5

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applegrove

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5. If they would just sign a free trade deal with Cuba it
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 07:41 PM
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would be a capitalist country in 5 years or less. Unfortunately Cuban immigrants to the US want to take it back by force so they can take back former family property.

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