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Can you believe that CUBA gives FREE Eye Surgery to Latinos in Central America? WHO donates the MONEY?
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Question: CUba gives the people of Central America in need of eye surgery a free plane ticket to and from, free hotel accomodations, and free medical care during and after the surgery, including food. Does money funnel from Iran, or Saudi Arabia, or Venezuela? Does ANYBODY know? Thats a LOT of MONEY for a country as poor as CUBA to spend on people, THEY HAVE to get the money from SOMEWHERE!
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November 24th, 2009 at 9:00 am
“In August 2005, the Governments of the Republic of Cuba, Venezuela and Jamaica, together with Caribbean partners – Dominica, Guyana, St. Lucia and Suriname – signed the historic Bilateral Agreement, ‘Mission Operation’, for their nationals to receive medical attention in the field of ophthalmology in Cuba.”
http://www.jis.gov.jm/parliament/html/20080604T100000-0500_15486_JIS_12_000_PERSONS_TO_BE_SCREENED_UNDER_JAMAICA_CUBA_EYE_CARE_PROGRAMME.asp
Article 62 of the Cuban Constitution:
“None of the freedoms which are recognized for citizens can be exercised contrary to what is established in the Constitution and by law, or contrary to the existence and objectives of the socialist state, or contrary to the decision of the Cuban people to build socialism and communism. Violations of this principle can be punished by law.”
I don’t care who they gave “free” eye surgery too, it doesn’t make the Cuban government any less evil than it already is.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:17 am
The cost is not THAT high as the Cuban government dictates what it pays in hotel and food rates; and doctors work for the state. However, Cuba sees helping the region as a better way to win hearts and minds than waging war and invading territory.
You should check stage 2 in Cuba’s “free surgery” strategy. Clinics will next be established in the recipient countries. How’s that for a “soft Cuban invasion”??/
November 24th, 2009 at 9:17 am
Gee… if this is happening lets be happy that some of that money is going to a very worthy cause. My mom lost an eye to cancer, if she could have her eye and vision back because of some big bucks, I truly wouldn’t question or care where it had come from. Maybe a rich country like the US could try doing the same for it’s people who couldn’t afford it otherwise. That would be cool.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:32 am
That is social work, doctors are paid by goverment, they give back work in return. Cuba specially has medical services with levels as good as Canada, and MUCH better than any other latin american country. Michoacan state, in west Mexico, bougth a 100 seats plane to send old people to have them operated in Cuba, that part of that deal is paid by that state goverment. An cataract surgery takes about 30 minutes, and a week recovery outside hospital.
If you really care to know about how some countries solve their problems, visit Cuba, and have a side trip to Haiti, (it is only 55 miles away) to see the contrast.
Cuba is champion in 3 areas, sports, education and health, but still lacks 3 important solutions; breakfast, dinner and supper, but remember it has a trade and economic blockade since 1962, that is 46 years.
My personal opinion as a latin american, is that there are no other countries in the world whose people are as similar as U.S. americans and cubans, (see how well the United States accepts and integrates cubans), I also think that one of these days, americans and cubans will be friends again, and the skills learned by those people in these hard times, together with american wealth and leadership, will serve to counter attack oriental economic push. (remember that China, Viet Nam, and other countries were America´s enemies not long ago)
November 24th, 2009 at 10:19 am
By Central America I gather you refer to Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, because that is all of Central America.
Costa Rica has excellent medical service, but the other countries really don’t. Nicaragua has been a close friend of the Cubans since the Sandinista Guerilla Revolution of the seventies, and the rest are no better off. Cuban doctors have flowed into Latin America because they do produce good health practitioners and because Chavez puts them to good use in Venezuela (which is in South America).
Eye surgery is costly and unavailable to poor people. There must be a hitch somewhere, but it gives them a chance to improve their life quality, so they would have to be crazy to pass up an opportunity like that. Depending on the type of surgery, most do not need hospitalization and the like and you would need very few days to recover or none at all.
I have been following the news lately and if there is money being funneled into this venture, I hardly think it might come from Iran or Venezuela. I tend to believe the human traffickers that transport people from Cuba into the USA, passing through Mexico, are the most likely culprits. Each Cuban has to pay them at least ten thousand dollars a head, so they fill boats with at least a hundred passengers and somehow get them into the USA. All that money has to go somewhere, don’t you think? Maybe the recipients of the surgery are doomed to become mules. Or maybe it is just Cuba trying to lose its old image of intolerant Fidel.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:10 am
tony juan!! nothing on the face of the earth is free!!! someone has to pay for it, from somewhere, I can see you must be one of the gimmie,gimmie people, but someone has to pay, I would assume that iol rich venuzula, or others pay for it,or maybe even us Americans, who knows, but people who say so what its free, no way its free, the Americans in this country are taxed to death, and now we are supporting the middle east, thats sad, those people are filthy rich!!!! I am voting for Mccain, because I think he will save us from the demo doom!!!! and the doom is growing bigger every day, and most can’t see it,
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!