Curly Surmudgeon wrote in
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On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:39:40 +0000, D Murphy wrote:

Curly Surmudgeon wrote in
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On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:26:48 +0000, D Murphy wrote:

Cliff wrote in
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Send some of those Cuba-trained doctors to the US.


Last I heard they were being treated like slaves in Venezuela and
they were begging for asylum in the US.

Cites?

My conversations with Cuban doctors in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay,
Venezuela and Peru said no such thing. All were well educated, kind
and anxious to help society.


http://news.google.com/archivesearch...GLG,GGLG:2006-
16,GGLG:en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tab=wn&q=cuban+doctors+venezuela+asylum

Pick a source you trust.

It was all over the news a while back.

From your google search string:


Cuban health professionals who defected apply for fast-track entry
to... Free with registration - Knight Ridder Washington Bureau -
AccessMyLibrary.com - Mar 9, 2007
Cuba has an estimated 40000 doctors, dentists, nurses and other
medical personnel working in 69 countries, including some 15000 in
Venezuela. ...

Most go on to say that almost 100 medical personal, not doctors, have
applied for asylum in the U.S. under a program set up to lure
professionals from Cuba.

Whoop-de-****ing-do, 0.25% *medical* *personal,* not
"doctors,"accepted bribes amounting to hundreds of thousands of
dollars. So, again, where did you "hear[d] they were being treated
like slaves in Venezuela and begging for asylum"?


I suppose if you think Cuban's are free and allowed to raom around
Venezuela unmonitored then what you just wrote makes sense.

The truth is that they are not. They can only apply for asylum if they
can escape across the border to Columbia.

Cuban health professionals are being traded for oil and some that have
escaped report to being forced to campaign and promote Chavez.

They aren't allowed to talk to the press. How many are in Venezuela
against their will? How many is too many? 5%? 50%?

Or doesn't their will matter just as long as they are treating poor
people for "free"?

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Dan

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