Coronavirus-hit countries are asking Cuba for medical help. Why is the US opposed?

[malaise]

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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/26/world/cuba-coronavirus-medical-help-intl/index.html
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Cuba is offering to send doctors to more countries struggling with the coronavirus. But don't accept their help, the US State Department says.

As health care systems around the world are strained to the point of collapse, Cuban health care "brigades" have been invited to assist medical workers in Italy, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Suriname, Jamaica and Grenada. On Tuesday, Cuban officials released video of a field hospital its health care workers had built in Lombardy, Italy, one of the regions hit hardest by the coronavirus.

But the State Department wants countries to reconsider asking Cuba for help in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. "Cuba offers its international medical missions to those afflicted with #COVIDー19 only to make up the money it lost when countries stopped participating in the abusive program," tweeted an account for the US State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor on Wednesday.
"Host countries seeking Cuba's help for #COVIDー19 should scrutinize agreements and end labor abuses," the message said.

Recent requests for help by other countries have marked an abrupt turnaround. Cuba saw hundreds of doctors sent home from medical missions in Brazil, Ecuador and Bolivia in recent years, after the US criticized Cuba's medical assistance programs, accusing them of exploiting health care workers and spreading propaganda. The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Have you no fucking shame Don the Con et al?

[Wounded Bear]

1. Because they're making us look bad...

[hlthe2b]

2. Because we have become the very shit-hole country under Trump that he denounced worldwide...

[DFW]

3. If corona's bad, and it don't look good, who you gonna call?

Well, the first country that used to come to mind was the United States, but since we have abdicated the role of the Great Savior, can you blame other countries for searching for anyone else willing AND ABLE to help out?

If Cuba has ulterior motives, but will save lives in your country, whattaya gonna do? Tell people, "sorry, but Trump might get pissed, so you have to croak?" The natives might no longer be so friendly after their government tells them that.

If the USA isn't around to help and Cuba is, what did the Republicans expect other countries to say? Hint, they were NOT going to say, "hey let's ask Mitch McConnell and Mike Pompeo what we should do?"

[malaise]

5. He assumes everyone will say let my people die

for the Holey Moran Emperor.
These people are evil.

[OhioChick]

4. If Don is going to keep declining help from other countries

with offers of doctors, test kits and protective gear then he should get his family and his ass in gear and help out in some of these hospitals......with no protection.

[malaise]

6. Don't hold your breath for that one n/t

[OhioChick]

7. There's a special place in hell for people like him n/t

[BlueMTexpat]

8. And because every single one of them

is a clueless entitled prick, they'd probably wreak more havoc than they would help.

[malaise]

10. THIS

[Scarsdale]

9. But, aren't Cubans brown?

Wouldn't that alone make them unwelcome in the US by Don the Con's "standards"? Seems they might expect to be p-a-i-d. Isn't that the gop way, demand payment before doing anything remotely helpful? Who is REALLY making these decisions? I do not think tRump is even aware of most of what is going on. He is following orders from someone, but who? Whoever it is, is making him look like a total, complete fool. In other words, the REAL D. J. tRump is front and center on TV daily, being himself.

[malaise]

11. Actually the original reason for welcoming them to Miami was that

the friends of Batista were white

I think ideology and false pride are the driving forces behind this ignorance.

I may be naive and/or ignorant but waging ideological and imperialistic wars in the middle of a pandemic are beyond criminal to me.

[Oppaloopa]

15. These are russian trained doctors and are considered some of the best in the world.

[klook]

12. Good article on Cuba's role:

https://progresoweekly.us/cubas-coronavirus-response-is-putting-other-countries-to-shame/

-- from a post by Judy Lynn:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/110871080

[malaise]

14. Thanks for this

Excellent read- Judith is the DU queen for the best from Latin America

[Aquaria]

13. Because too many people

Are still pissed off that Cuba booted out our oligarchs, ended their gambling dens and kiddie-diddling bordellos, and refused to boot out the Castros for all those years.

[malaise]

16. It's that simple

How dare the Cubans not let the big boss do what it wants in sovereign Cuba?

[ms liberty]

17. This. n/t