Vera Bergen-Gruen
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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is now really just encouraging these countries to do different workarounds.
In some cases, they're asking them to hire doctors, nurses from other parts.
They're asking them to pay the doctors directly instead of through the Cuban government, which, you know, a lot of these countries say they're already doing that, but U.S.
officials don't believe them.
And in other cases, you know, for example, in the Caribbean and some of these islands that really have almost no other medical staff, some U.S.
hospital ships sporadically show up and provide services
surgeries or medical care or eye care, things like that.
But ultimately, that's just not enough.
When I was in St.
Kitts, which is a very small island in the Caribbean with Secretary Rubio, I went to a local hospital.
In some of these rural clinics or these small islands, Cuban nurses and doctors are the only highly trained medical staff that they have, especially when it comes to eye surgeries, things like that.
Speaking to Latin American and Caribbean officials, they tell us that it's really unrealistic for some of these short-term solutions, like a U.S.
hospital ship that might come once a year, to bridge the gap of, again, just emergency rooms, Cuban nurses, people who can do dialysis, people who can do surgeries.
That's something that they really rely on these Cuban doctors for, and there isn't any other alternative.
There's been quite a lot of movement.
At first, some of these countries were quite defiant.
A lot of them said, you know, I would rather lose my job than have people die or suffer.
We have seen quite a shift, especially since the U.S.
began flexing more muscle in the region.
We've seen these strikes on drug boats in the region.
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