Cuba and Latin America watch out for the spread of disease Cuba will produce as it has in the past. The Castros dont care for their Doctors or the population they will infest!!!!!! Cuba Cubas Doctors Without Freedom Posted: 15 Sep 2014 08:44 AM PDT Perennially searching for a headline, the Castro regime mounted a press conference last week at the World Health Organization (WHO), to announce it was sending a team of health specialists to fight the Ebola virus in West Africa. Cubas Minister of Public Health, Roberto Morales Ojeda, was recently named president of the WHOs World Heath Assembly -- hence becoming a convenient propaganda platform for the Castro regime. Consequently, the weekends headlines exaggerated, Cuba sending hundreds of doctors to fight Ebola. However, what the Castro regime is actually sending (in its own words) is, 100 nurses, 50 doctors, 3 epidemiologists, 3 intensive care specialists, 3 infection control specialist nurses and 5 social mobilization officers. (The latter being the secret police officials tasked with keeping tabs on the health specialists, holding their passports and preventing defections. And yes, Cubans have defected in some of the most inhospitable places in the world. Moreover, if Cubans are desperate enough to face the perils of sharks in the Florida Straits, they will face the perils of Ebola, if an opportunity to escape arises.) Most importantly, why havent any of the media outlets or propagandists praising the Castros regime medical diplomacy asked any of these Cuban health specialists what they think? Because they cant. These health specialist are captive labor of Castros regime -- they have no voice, choice or opinion. So wheres the praise for the hundreds -- if not thousands -- of American doctors who have volunteered with NGOs such as Doctors Without Borders, Samaritans Purse, CARE International, SIM USA, et al? Have we already forgotten about the American doctors who contracted Ebola and nearly died helping fight the deadly virus in West Africa? These American doctors volunteer their time, and sacrifice their own resources and comfortable lifestyles to help those in need. They are not compelled by a dictatorship for profit or propaganda. Wheres the praise for the $250 million the United States has already committed in equipment, treatments and personnel to fight the Ebola virus in West Africa through its Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)? Or the additional $500 million the Pentagon has asked Congress (for thats how democracies work) to set up field hospitals in the region, provide equipment, transportation and security for international health workers? So where are the Cuban NGOs? Thats right, Cuba is a totalitarian dictatorship, where only governmental entities are permitted -- NGOs (non-governmental organizations) are prohibited. Cubans are some of the most charitable people in the world. Theres no doubt that if the Cuban people were free, and able to create and participate in NGOs, theyd be among the first to volunteer. We see it in the diaspora daily. But praising the Castro regime for its brand of Doctors Without Freedom, which it only dispatches for its own profit (to places like Venezuela, Brazil and Qatar) or propaganda (to West Africa), is irresponsible and insincere.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:14:28 +0000
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