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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Kenneth Mohammed

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

Cuban doctors and nurses  bid farewell in Havana as they leave for Turkey to treat victims of the 2023 earthquake.
Cuban doctors and nurses bid farewell in Havana as they leave for Turkey to treat victims of the 2023 earthquake. Photograph: Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images

There is a line, often quoted, seldom practised, from the Christian 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.

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