BRAIN DRAIN POLITICS: THE CUBAN MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL PAROLE PROGRAMME
<p class="first" id="d126842e97">Cuba's international medical aid programmes are more extensive than those of any other country or international organisation in the world. Washington, fearing that such aid activities will generate increased inte...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pluto Journals
2012-09-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Cuban Studies |
| Online Access: | https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.2307/41946012 |
| Summary: | <p class="first" id="d126842e97">Cuba's international medical aid programmes are more extensive than those of any other
country or international organisation in the world. Washington, fearing that such
aid activities will generate increased international political influence (i.e., soft
power) for Havana and thereby complicate US efforts to bring about regime change there,
has responded with its own countermeasures. The primary US initiative has been the
Cuban Medical Professional Parole (CMPP) programme, which is designed to encourage
and facilitate defections to the US by Cuban medical personnel assigned to overseas
aid missions. The dynamics and impact of the CMPP programme will be the main focus
of this article. Operating within a policy analysis format, the article provides a
summary of Cuba's medical aid programmes. For comparative purposes, similar summary
data will be provided regarding US medical aid activities. It provides detailed background
information about the formation and operation of Washington's CMPP programme. It also
analyses the extent to which the CMPP programme has succeeded in persuading Cuban
medical internationalists to defect and how far it has undermined Havana's medical
aid programmes.
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| ISSN: | 1756-3461 1756-347X |