US EditionDoctors, Tourism, Tobacco: Cuba Buckling Under Us Pressure
- An oil blockade has forced emergency rationing in Cuba, badly hitting Cuba's electricity grid and raising the prospect of widespread blackouts.
- Guyanese Health Minister Frank Anthony told AFP, `Those agreements are going to change over time`, as some countries alter or end Cuban medical missions under US pressure.
- The tourism sector, which employs more than 300,000 people, has seen revenues fall sharply and earlier this month Havana suspended jet fuel supplies, prompting Canadian and Russian airlines and LATAM to repatriate stranded passengers before suspending flights.
- Festival organizers canceled the annual cigar festival and its nearly $19 million auction this month amid energy shortages, while Cuba's cigar industry recorded $827 million in sales.
- Remittance channels narrowed after Western Union suspended transfers in 2020, while Florida Congressman Carlos Gimenez asked airlines to cancel Cuba flights earlier this month.
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Radio France Internationale
The main source of foreign currency for the island is the sending of medical missions abroad.
The new US sanctions against the medical brigades have been received with concern and rejection in Latin America and, especially, the Caribbean.
Washington's pressure on Havana is not limited to oil: a dozen countries, Caribbean and Central American mainly, have closed or reduced their contracts with Cuba in the past year to receive doctors because of the US insistence that they do not collaborate in practices that are called “forced labor,” according to EFE. The U.S. maneuver has drastic economic consequences, because the export of professional services has been for years one of the isl…
Havana, Cuba The US siege to reduce foreign exchange inflows to Cuba is narrowing: while some countries question the agreements to receive Cuban doctors under pressure from Washington, the energy blockade punishes tourism and tobacco. Medical services The sending of medical brigades abroad is the main source of foreign exchange income on the island, with $7 billion in 2025, according to official figures. According to Havana, 24,000 doctors and o…
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El ComercioWashington's pressure on Havana is not limited to oil: a dozen countries, Caribbean and Central American mainly, have closed or reduced their contracts with Cuba in the past year to receive doctors because of the U.S. insistence that they do not collaborate in practices that call "forced labor."The entry is not only oil: the U.S. seeks to dismantle Cuba's medical missions in the Americas was first published in the Digital Process.
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