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Cuba - SuperFlyBCat - 09-29-2017 10:51 AM
Cuban Doctors Revolt: ‘You Get Tired of Being a Slave’
RIO DE JANEIRO — In a rare act of collective defiance, scores of Cuban doctors working overseas to make money for their families and their country are suing to break ranks with the Cuban government, demanding to be released from what one judge called a “form of slave labor.”
Thousands of Cuban doctors work abroad under contracts with the Cuban authorities. Countries like Brazil pay the island’s Communist government millions of dollars every month to provide the medical services, effectively making the doctors Cuba’s most valuable export.
U.S. to Pull More Diplomats Out of Cuba After Attacks
WASHINGTON — The State Department is expected to announce Friday that it will pull much of its staff out of the American embassy in Havana in the wake of mysterious attacks that have injured 21 people associated with the embassy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/us/politics/us-embassy-cuba-attacks.html
RE: Cuba - bullet - 09-30-2017 10:44 AM
Diplomats were attacked as recently as August. Still no idea what the weapon(s) is.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/after-mystery-attacks-us-pulls-more-diplomats-from-cuba-warns-travelers/
"...Equally unclear is who is behind the attacks. US authorities do not suspect that the Cuban government is behind them because officials there have been forthcoming and fully cooperative with the investigations. And the fact that a Canadian diplomat was attacked also drew suspicion away from the Cuban government; the two countries have a long-standing friendly relationship.
“Whoever is doing this obviously is trying to disrupt the normalization process between the United States and Cuba," Leahy told the Times today. “Someone or some government is trying to reverse that process.”
Authorities speculated that a third government, such as Russia, or a rogue government unit may be to blame...."