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Why are 20,000 Cuban physicians in Venezuela?

Anonymous Cuban , Professional Professional Send response to journal: Re: Why are 20,000 Cuban physicians in Venezuela?

Dear BMJ Editor, I want to expose the background of the differences between Venezuelan and Cuban physicians, exposed in the interesting news of Villanueva and Castillo,[1] and complemented in the De Vos and Limonta e-letter [2]. There are two realities that cannot be hidden: Venezuela�s territory and people have been invaded by many more than 20,000 Cubans to disintegrate their democratic institutions; and, "not all that shines is gold". Our Cuban healthcare overseas missions are being contradictorily baits of Stalinist traps. After 19-years of the Soviet Eurasian Bloc vanishing, and weeks that Russian communists received only 18% of votes in multi-partisan suffrage, paradoxically, still there are leaders intriguing and forcing the unsuccessful and extinguishing Soviet Cuban model, and reviling their physicians. The Soviet Russian �involution� (from 1917 to 1992) generated a geopolitical history manipulation.[3] Stalinist leaders still advertise their successes by socialist strengthens, and failures by capitalism weaknesses and imperialist attacks. Iranian fundamentalist religious �denying the Nazi Holocaust of Jewish�, and West Afrocentric scholars �denying the ancient Greeks and Romans cultural achievements as stolen to �black� Egyptians�, without facts are mythistories.[4] I have proven with background data that �the denied living and health achievements in Cuba from 1728 to 1958� by our Stalinist leader is a �mythistory�.[3,5-7] Stalinist socialism has been apocalyptic in Cuba integral living care, though preserving some healthcare and social trends. It has been formidable for ideological misinformation and subversion of badly informed peoples, training terrorist-guerrillas [3,5-7] (as the dying-ones in Colombia), and crowning gangsters as �affable-kings� for lifetime. We (Cubans) avoid working in their poorest villages and slums as most world physicians do. But we are forced as slaves tragically by misfortune to invade as strike breakers in the Venezuelan ones. This is in exchange for a �parole� from our unbearable island prison, and for a few crumbs,[3,5-7] violating Venezuelan-physicians� regulations, degrading them and ourselves in these missions. Why is this possible? Today, we are the most wretched of physicians, earning less and living worse than former Soviet feldshers and Chinese barefoot doctors, and even the cleaning staff of our health facilities.[3,5-7] Most of us were born in confinement, grew up without a free press, were indoctrinated into Stalinist Soviet ideology (that seeks to expunge critical thinking and individual identity), and were prepared in our 20-year tradition poorest province medical faculties. Our 45-year �covert action� solidarity brigades in developing nations do �Trojan Horse� ideological conspiracy with the aided natives against their medical college, market economy, democratic institutions, U.S. and Europe; our 46-year medical scholarships for tenths of thousands foreigners (better than for Cubans in past 10 years) are used to select and train leaders for Stalinist ideological globalization.[3,5-7] For a half century our scientific education has worsened due to unnecessary massive preparation, as well as ban since 1959 of our copious free exchanges with U.S. and European professionals, who assisted updating us without any damage to forge (between 1762 and 1958) our advanced and integrated living care and healthcare systems.[3,5-7] It is an error to value today Cuba�s healthcare of first class, having parallelly the worst setback in living care, worse than Burma. Stalinist Cuba has gone back from 1959 to worst 1700s, generalizing terror, captivity, moral illnesses, native discrimination and corruption, hunger, misery, infrastructure destruction, against most U.N. social health and well-being concepts, and norms on individual rights and liberties and living levels, due to its catastrophic economy and insane priority to ideologically conquer 190 developing countries.[3,5-7] The world someday will know the background data of the silenced effect of the Venezuelan �glorious Inside Neighbourhood Mission�, into the fatal Cuban neighbourhoods consequent deprivation of doctors, consultations, medicines, and elder and adult Cubans getting sick and dying rottenly cared by the remaining colleagues crushed by our regime, which only works though inefficiently in infant mortality (<1yr) index reduction for ideological propaganda purposes.[3,5-7] What kind of interest in the empowerment of the autochthonous living and healthcare systems could expect Venezuelans from their leader, closed allied of the Cuban, North Korean and Iranian leaders? He logically has corruptly wasted the greatest fortune of Venezuela�s history to maintain the moribund Cuban �mythistorical� sanctuary, to subvert Bolivians, Ecuadorians, Peruvians, to conquer Colombia, and to militarize Venezuela as a second Soviet Cuba. Venezuelans, please, do not abandon your spaces to the depredator state. Continue facing these abuses in national and international institutions and courts, unifying your opposition. In the 2007 referendum, you won against the Stalinist trap. We inevitably will liberate ourselves and healthily cooperate with you. Thanks. References: 1. Villanueva T, Carrillo S. News: Venezuelan doctors resent presence of thousands of Cuban doctors in their country. BMJ 2008;336:579. (15 March). http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/336/7644/579-a 2. De Vos P, Limonta D. E-letter. The Venezuelan Medical Council and the Cuban doctors in Venezuela. BMJ 2008 (Mar 25). http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/336/7644/579-a 3. Anonymous Cuban professional. E-letter. UN and WHO Leaders could Welcome a Bioeconomic-Psychosocial Paradigm. BMJ 2006 (Nov 15). http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/333/7576/1015#149265 4. Lefkowitz M. Whatever happened to historical evidence? In: Gross, Levitt, Lewis. The Flight from Science and Reason. Proceedings of a Conference from the New York Academy of Science. 1st ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. 301-312. 5. Anon. Correspondence. Cuba's delayed transition needs. Lancet 2006 368(9544):1323. (Oct 14) http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673606695445/fulltext 6. Anonymous Cuban professional. E-letter. Achieving health equity with more liberty, wealth, and ethics. BMJ 2007 (Oct 5). http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/335/7621/628-b#177601 7. Anonymous Cuban professional. E-letter. Poverty, emigration, government, development, and equity. Ann Fam Med 2007 (Dec 3). http://www.annfammed.org/cgi/eletters/5/6/486#7388 Competing interests: None declared

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