The NYT does it again--another valuable editorial. U.S. policy encourages Cuban medical professionals serving overseas to defect. We have said it before on this page: this program MUST END. It is incongruous for the United States to value the contributions of Cuban doctors who are sent by their government to assist in international crises like the 2010 Haiti earthquake while working to subvert that government by making defection so easy . . . The Cuban government has long regarded the medical defection program as a symbol of American duplicity. It undermines Cuba’s ability to respond to humanitarian crises and does nothing to make the government in Havana more open or democratic. As long as this incoherent policy is in place, establishing a healthier relationship between the two nations will be harder.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 04:56:45 +0000
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