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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsU.S. Targets Cuba's Army of Overseas Doctors
U.S. Targets Cubas 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 administrations pressure campaign against Cubas Communist government is zeroing in on the islands 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 Cubas decades-old medical missionsthrough which Havana gets payments to export doctors and nurses to more than 50 countriesthreatens billions of dollars in revenue for a country already in economic free fall.
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applegrove
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sinkingfeeling
(58,379 posts)1. A big FU to TSF's regime.
Biophilic
(6,853 posts)2. We have truly become a despicable nation.
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Ponietz
(4,754 posts)4. Evil incarnate
applegrove
(134,152 posts)5. If they would just sign a free trade deal with Cuba it
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.