Fidel Castro, Cuba, castro death watch, havana, habana

That’s the headline of an article in today’s Miami Herald. If I recall correctly, a few leftists are upset about this program because it encourages doctors to leave Cuba. In other words, it works. Perhaps the opponents of this program should aim their focus at the reasons why doctors (and anyone else […]

Wow, I’m pleasantly surprised. The San Francisco Chronicle actually published an article today with the title Cuban doctors defect from Venezuela posts. I’m shocked they’d admit that.
Of course, the piece doesn’t come without the typical Castro apologia about “free healthcare,” but they also mentioned this:
Cuban doctors are not permitted to talk […]

The Castro dictatorship loves to focus on anything with propaganda value, at the expense of Cubans. This time, it’s an excessive emphasis on artificially maintaining the infant mortality rate. Here, from the Miami Herald:
Darsi Ferrer, a dissident physician in Havana, doesn’t doubt the Granma report (which claimed Cuba’s infant mortality rate last year was […]

Looks as though the vaunted, so-called “world-class” (more like third-world class, IMO) healthcare system of Castro’s Cuba isn’t so healthy itself, according to an article in today’s Miami Herald:
Six Cuban doctors — two still on the island, four now in Miami — say no one should trust the country’s health statistics reported to the World […]