Trump puts Cuban doctors in firing line as heat turned up on island economy

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After US allies expel foreign health missions, Havana warns that patients will pay the highest price for campaign against its scheme
A Cuban medical programme that has helped some of the world’s poorest communities has become the latest target of the Trump administration’s escalating attempts to pressure Havana’s faltering economy.
Dubbed “Cuban doctors”, the celebrated – if controversial – humanitarian medical mission was founded more than half a century ago in the aftermath of Fidel Castro’s revolution, in part to enhance the country’s international influence. Continue reading...

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