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.
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