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Cuban Doctors in Indentured Servant Limbo in Colombia

Jim Wyss has a shocking story in the Miami Herald  about the sprawling state-sponsored human trafficking ring known as Barrio Adentro, and the Cuban doctors now getting stranded in Bogota as they try to flee indentured servitude in Venezuela. The stories the Cuban doctors tell tell read like the stories of Eritrean refugees trying to get…

August 19, 2015 in Cuba, Human Rights, Politics.

Government: Nobody has died in Venezuela for any reason since 2003

A reader: I’m continually astonished that no one ever seems to challenge the government claim, most recently repeated by Yadira Cordova just the other day, that Barrio Adentro has ‘saved over two million lives’. I’m not aware that this bizarre pseudo-statistic is employed anywhere else in the world as a measure of the impact of…

August 10, 2012 in Misiones, Politics.
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