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

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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.”