Cuba's doctors were a lifeline for the world. Now the Caribbean is shamefully complicit in the US drive to expel them

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/apr/11/cuba-doctors-lifeline-world-caribbean-complicit-us-expel

gospels: “Love thy neighbour as thyself.” It is recited from the Americas to Africa, invoked in speeches, embroidered into national mottoes.

But like many moral injunctions, it has proven easier to proclaim than to live by. Across the Caribbean and Latin America, something extraordinary and shameful is unfolding.

Cuban doctors, emissaries of one of the world’s most besieged nations, are being expelled from host nations, contracts terminated, health programmes dismantled. And, in their absence, the poorest will pay – in untreated illnesses, unattended births, undiagnosed cancers. The region is, in effect, amputating its own lifeline – under pressure from the US.

On Friday the Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez accused the US of “extorting” countries by forcing them to cancel decades-old deals with Havana for the supply of doctors.

[GiqueCee]

1. How does the US benefit from this malicious action?

I cannot see any reason for it besides the well-known fact that Trump gets his rocks off by hurting people who have never done him harm in any way, shape, or form. He's just a pathologically vicious bully who is only admired by other pathologically vicious bullies.
The world has enough of these psychotic turds. It's time to stop giving them the obsequious attention they demand. Call them out for the insufferable shits they are.

[malaise]

2. The same way they benefit from killing 160 school children

I can do what I want - Donvict.
Evil monsters

[GiqueCee]

3. So true...

... and what he wants to do is bully everyone into submission, and then steal their lunch money. I just wish Satan would call him home. NOW would be nice.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Cuban doctors have been celebrated by people throughout the world.

They've been on the scene immediately responding to victims of earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, outbreaks of disease, etc. They have gone where doctors from wealthy country refuse to participate, Ebola as a prime example.

They are utterly committed people, and are beloved everywhere apart from the influence of the US political, military machine.

They will always be remembered, along with revolutionary Cuba's incredible achievements in medicine, making breakthroughs with almost nothing to support them, due to political, economic war conducted against the tiny country since the 1970's.

[malaise]

5. Evil is good these days

Whores for tourists as our medical systems collapse.