CUBAN MEDICAL COOPERATION WITHIN ALBA: THE CASE OF VENEZUELA
<p class="first" id="d139989e69">Cuba's policy of medical internationalism still remains a great mystery for many, despite its existence for fully five decades, and a record that puts the 'developed' world to shame. Perhaps this is bec...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pluto Journals
2011-06-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Cuban Studies |
| Online Access: | https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.2307/41945946 |
| Summary: | <p class="first" id="d139989e69">Cuba's policy of medical internationalism still remains a great mystery for many,
despite its existence for fully five decades, and a record that puts the 'developed'
world to shame. Perhaps this is because it is not presented as 'aid', but rather as
cooperation, and humanitarian solidarity-a concept which the industrialised nations
and their paternalistic approach fail to understand. By far the largest degree of
medical cooperation is found in Venezuela, where in March 2010 there were 29,255 Cuban
medical personnel, including 11,322 doctors ('Médicos cubanos' 2010). There is a substantial
body of literature published on this decade-long relationship, although sadly it has
been reduced to the simplistic concept of a 'doctors for oil swap'. This article seeks
to trace the evolution of bilateral cooperation between Venezuela and Cuba, to provide
an analysis of these close ties, and to explore the nature of the medical cooperation
that is such a key to the relationship.
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| ISSN: | 1756-3461 1756-347X |