The shortage of medical supplies is a problem created by the US which is then recycled into evidence of medical failure which is quite a nice little Gordian knot.
>As for the training, I did only cite one study. But I know doctors who have worked along side Cuban doctors in Africa through MSF, and they’re according to multiple people I’ve spoken with very poorly trained. The medical missions are also as I pointed out basically slavery.
I'll be honest the corporate media has played so fast and loose with information the last few years so they don't get the benefit of the doubt and I'm aware of a fair few countries with various flavours of regimes to stop doctors and/or graduates emigrating instantly with their expensive training so I wouldnt know enough to judge on "slavery". I'd need more context and another viewpoint to form an opinion.
It is categorically not a problem created by the US. Cuba was a satrap of the USSR that never developed any local economic or agricultural capacity. This is despite receiving free oil, machinery, training and fertilizer from the USSR and later free oil from Venezuela. Cuba still has the lowest agricultural output in the Caribbean by miles, clearly this is a result of communist economic policies. One only needs to look to Deng’s agricultural reforms in 1980s China to see this.
The embargo is no excuse. Cuba’s largest trading partner is Spain and they could get any European good or equipment they wanted if they had anything worth exporting for foreign currency. Cuba receives nearly a billion dollars a year in remittances from Cubans in the US alone, yet they are unable to do anything to unlock the potential of that inflow because they’re hung up on broken stalinist policies.
I sent you several Spanish language articles on the topic published outside of the US, this isn’t a “corporate media” narrative. The Cuban government is just terrible. If you can’t read Spanish that isn’t my fault. I know tons of Cubans, including Cuban leftists, and I read Spanish. I’m pretty well informed here and not just buying a narrative.
Human Rights Watch calls the medical mission slavery. They don’t allow the doctors to communicate with family, take their passports, take their wages, often send them into conflict zones, threaten their families, and on and on.
>As for the training, I did only cite one study. But I know doctors who have worked along side Cuban doctors in Africa through MSF, and they’re according to multiple people I’ve spoken with very poorly trained. The medical missions are also as I pointed out basically slavery.
I'll be honest the corporate media has played so fast and loose with information the last few years so they don't get the benefit of the doubt and I'm aware of a fair few countries with various flavours of regimes to stop doctors and/or graduates emigrating instantly with their expensive training so I wouldnt know enough to judge on "slavery". I'd need more context and another viewpoint to form an opinion.