‘Educated under embargo’: How Cuban doctors vital to Latin America and the Caribbean became under threat by the US

The US is blocking the employment of Cuban doctors around the world – and the poorest will suffer the costs US pressure on Cuba is rising. A country that has already been under US-led and enforced embargos for almost 70 years, Cuba is now in the crosshairs of the Trump administration, with a new policy that is isolating it further and having a devastating effect on Latin America and the Caribbean. The US has blocked the employment of Cuban doctors, medical professionals who go where others fe...

By Nesrine Malik