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Who traffics in 'cruelty'? Cuban doctors were forced to dole out medicine for political purposes.
nytimes.com/2019/03/17/wor…
nytimes.com/2019/03/17/wor…
16 members of Cuba’s medical missions to Venezuela — a signature element of relations between the two countries — described a system of deliberate political manipulation in which their services were wielded to secure votes for the governing Socialist Party, often through coercion
The Cuban doctors said they were ordered to go door-to-door in impoverished neighborhoods, offering medicine and warning residents that they would be cut off from medical services if they did not vote for Mr. Maduro or his candidates.
Many said their superiors directed them to issue the same threats during closed-door consultations with patients seeking treatment for chronic diseases.
Once the state has got the medical system they have got you. The only way to escape their clutch is for whole grid and network to collapse, as happened in Venezuela. Then their threats to withhold medical care lose meaning.
