Trump Crackdown Pulls Cuban Doctors From 2003 Venezuela Clinics, Collapsing Care

3 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 2

Patients at Caracas's Salvador Allende medical center were turned away in late April after specialist services disappeared and Cuban doctors left the clinic.
Barrio Adentro, launched in 2003 by Hugo Chávez to provide free care in poor neighborhoods, depended heavily on Cuban medical staff embedded across Venezuela.
That system was built on an oil-for-doctors arrangement in which Venezuela supplied subsidized crude to Cuba in exchange for thousands of healthcare workers.
Trump's crackdown on Cuban doctors has now helped unravel that model, leaving Venezuelans with fewer treatment options as a flagship social program breaks down.

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