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Cuban Doctors Revolt: ‘You Get Tired of Being a Slave’
New York Times ^ | 9/29/2017 | ERNESTO LONDOÑO

Posted on 09/29/2017 3:09:47 PM PDT by Incorrigible

Cuban Doctors Revolt: "You Get Tired of Being a Slave"

RIO DE JANEIRO - In a rare act of collective defiance, scores of Cuban doctors working overseas to make money for their families and their country are suing to break ranks with the Cuban government, demanding to be released from what one judge called a "form of slave labor."

Thousands of Cuban doctors work abroad under contracts with the Cuban authorities. Countries like Brazil pay the island's Communist government millions of dollars every month to provide the medical services, effectively making the doctors Cuba's most valuable export.

But the doctors get a small cut of that money, and a growing number of them in Brazil have begun to rebel...

..."When you leave Cuba for the first time, you discover many things that you had been blind to," said Yaili Jimenez Gutierrez, one of the doctors who filed suit. "There comes a time when you get tired of being a slave."...

...The legal challenges are all the more important because the doctors have lost a common backup plan: going to the United States... President Barack Obama in January ended the program, which had allowed Cuban doctors stationed in other countries to get permanent residency visas for the United States.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cuba; doctor; socialism
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Didn't Rand Paul get excoriated by the left for saying much the same thing as these Cuban doctors?
1 posted on 09/29/2017 3:09:47 PM PDT by Incorrigible
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To: Incorrigible

Slave labor in a communist country?? Can’t be....it’s only happened here in the US and to listen to some it continues. /sarc


2 posted on 09/29/2017 3:10:54 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Incorrigible

Rather edgy subject matter for NYT.


3 posted on 09/29/2017 3:13:02 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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The New York Times must be really torn over this.
Slavery by communists. It’s like finding out
your mom pimps out girls, and never cut you in.


4 posted on 09/29/2017 3:15:25 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Incorrigible

But.. but all the Hollywood lefties say that Cuba has THE BEST health care in the world! It’s free ‘n’ everybody gets it ‘n’ nobody ever gets sick ‘n’ dies or nuthin’. Michael Moore said so too. He said Cuba’s got the best health care. And you now Michael Moore never lies.


5 posted on 09/29/2017 3:18:56 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: ealgeone

>> Can’t be....it’s only happened here in the US and to listen to some it continues.<<

10 million dollars a year to play a game — SLAVERY I TELLS YA!


6 posted on 09/29/2017 3:18:57 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The UK has no death penalty, unless you are an 11 month old infant with no arrest history)
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But I thought government run healthcare was so...wonderful...


7 posted on 09/29/2017 3:19:56 PM PDT by Signalman
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Paging Michael Moore and Colin Kaepernick...


8 posted on 09/29/2017 3:21:52 PM PDT by Lysandru
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I guess Sean Penn was wrong.


9 posted on 09/29/2017 3:22:27 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Incorrigible

When you have no taxpayers to fleece, “free universal healthcare” means enslaved doctors.


10 posted on 09/29/2017 3:22:37 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: sparklite2

My skeptical side says these doctors still don’t “get it” insofar as communism vs free market econ is concerned. It’s just that their particular oxen got gored.


11 posted on 09/29/2017 3:23:16 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Incorrigible

Doctor heel thyself.


12 posted on 09/29/2017 3:23:27 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))))
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Socialism is by definition and historical fact: Slavery.

As soon as a socialist government runs out of money, they tell the workers, soldiers etc. that they have to keep working anyway.


13 posted on 09/29/2017 3:24:40 PM PDT by Disestablishmentarian
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The legal challenges are all the more important because the doctors have lost a common backup plan: going to the United States... President Barack Obama in January ended the program, which had allowed Cuban doctors stationed in other countries to get permanent residency visas for the United States.

Yup. CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC have been in arms over this for months.

LOL! I kid me sometimes. They could care less. All they want coming to the US are farm workers.

14 posted on 09/29/2017 3:25:24 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Democrats destroy the Middle Class. It's what they do.)
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Our founding fathers had it right:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

The Cuban DR's are simply seeking what God gave us all and not the Cuban government.

15 posted on 09/29/2017 3:25:27 PM PDT by WeWaWes (When I look in the mirror I see an elephant--a bad ass elephant)
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To: jmacusa

Not only is it free and best in the world, the doctors are the highest paid in the world, happiest, and most satisfied with their profession of all professional class people the world over. Don’t ever let anybody tell you otherwise.


16 posted on 09/29/2017 3:30:27 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: SpaceBar

For the doctors whose backup plan was to come to the US, they evidently have nothing binding them to Cuba other than the contract. Why not stop remitting the money to Cuba?

Apparently the Brazilian government is paying Cuba for these doctors, though. Is the Brazilian government indulging in slavery by proxy? And would they go after a doctor who jumped the plantation?


17 posted on 09/29/2017 3:31:44 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Incorrigible

“Free” healthcare requires a slave class of healthcare workers.

It can’t work any other way.


18 posted on 09/29/2017 3:34:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: Incorrigible; John Semmens

I must be asleep and dreaming this.

This can’t be a NySlimes article.

This has to be one of John Semmens’ SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIREs posing as a Ny Slimes article.


19 posted on 09/29/2017 3:39:41 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Now that Trump is kicking their ass, they want to quit.)
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But Michael Moore told us this was the medical system we need to be emulating?


20 posted on 09/29/2017 4:06:04 PM PDT by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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