Puerto Vallarta News

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Cuba sends soldiers to Mexico instead of doctors for fear that specialists would defect to US

The specialist doctors that Cuba sent to Mexico are actually military, assured Javier Larrondo, president of Prisoners Defenders International, because the dictatorship of Miguel Díaz-Canel fears that the real doctors will try to defect to the United States to request asylum.

At a press conference from Mexico City, Larrondo explained that the 60 Cuban doctors who arrived in Nayarit last month are actually members of the Cuban military and pointed out that there is no conclusive evidence as to whether they really are medical specialists.

According to testimonies from dissident doctors, collected by . . .

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