Caribbean leaders and citizens fiercely defend the Cuban Medical Cooperation Programme

Caribbean leaders and citizens fiercely defend the Cuban Medical Cooperation Programme

The Trump administration recently announced visa restrictions for foreign officials that the US considers ‘complicit’ in Cuba’s foreign medical programmesOriginally published on Global VoicesFeature image via Canva Pro. On February 25, as concerns over immigration issues lingered — and about a month prior to his arrival in Jamaica this week — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced visa restrictions for government officials in Cuba, as well …

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp By: Rosa Miriam Elizalde To Marco Rubio – Little Marco, as his head calls him in the White House – Trump diplomacy ignores him, but he has been given a consolation prize the creeping task of stepping up the attack on the island where his parents were born. President Trump does not take it into account to negotiate with Netanyahu, Zelensky or Putin, but in less than a month the Secretary of State has managed to push seve…

Close to 200 Guyanese set face against US threats over Cuban doctors

—tell CARICOM leaders to reject idea medical mission part of human trafficking scheme Kaieteur News- Close to 200 individuals and their organisations have written to CARICOM calling on leaders to  collectively reject and repudiate the United States Government’s idea that the governments of the region are involved in human trafficking through the Cuban medical mission. […] The post Close to 200 Guyanese set face against US threats over Cuban doct…

Caribbean on tenterhooks over Cuban health missions as Rubio arrives for talks

The Trump administration has signalled to regional leaders that it has little interest in discussing the Cuban medical mission programme when Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives in the Caribbean today. The stance came hours before Rubio’s expected arrival in Jamaica and just two weeks after regional heads of governments were threatened with visa revocations for them and family if they continued with the programme flagged by the United States …