Cuba accuses US of ‘extorting’ countries in pushing them to axe deals with Havana to send doctors on medical missions
Cuba’s foreign minister has accused the United States of “extorting” Latin American countries by putting pressure on them to cancel decades-old deals with Havana for the supply of doctors.
Bruno Rodríguez said the United States was trying to “strangle” the economy of the communist island, which earns billions from its foreign medical missions, after several countries stopped deploying Cuban doctors.
Washington says the program – a major source of pride, and income, in Cuba since the 1960s – amounts to forced labor.
The US stance on the doctors program is part of a campaign of maximum pressure on the Cuban regime by Donald Trump.
