Why the US is pushing for the end of Cuban medical missions
(NEW YORK) -- For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Cuban health care workers have been deployed across the globe.Under the government's medical missions program, doctors, nurses, technicians and other staff are sent to countries around the world to provide care to underserved communities, in many cases for a fee.The Cuban government has said the missions, or "medical brigades," have entered countries at war, hit by natural disasters […]