Ahh. Just what the liberals/socialists/communists like to see: A young, idealistic young man with his head full of mush (put there by our education system) who praises the collective society. If he's smart or open-minded (which I doubt given his remarks), he might just learn something while in Cuba. For example, why doesn't the wonderful political system there produce enough doctors? Answer, Doctors do not receive any monetary rewards for the intensive schooling and training, and native Cuban doctors often quit to work in tourist related service jobs where they at least earn a wage.
Thank you for the link. If I can bring up the original article I'll email it to the reporter.
Can't access the link without paying. Any Houston Chronicle subscriber who can get it, please FReepmail me and I'll give you an email address. Thanks.
Free education? Education costs. This guy got his ed at the expense of lives of people. The Euro crats believe too in free education, by confining half the population through taxes to make a couple extremist punks go to med school or spew hatred in pol sci.
In order to be able to study medicine in Cuba, the Cuban student should have a long life record of total submission to Castro and the communist party's ukases.
According to Claire Sterling's "The Terror Network", there were 140 terrorist bands from nearly fifty countries in 1976. Today the amount increased considerably and Cuba is the Mecca of worldwide international terrorism.
Nothing is free in life. Cuba has sent terrorists to Third World Nations under the cover up of humanitarian medical brigades. Those going to Cuba under the pretense of receiving free education are going to pay dearly for their mistake. In Cuba tens of thousand terrorists have been trained. They might come back converted as another Johnny Walker Talibans.
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October 11, 2000
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MEDICAL JOURNAL EXPOSES CUBA'S FAILED "DOCTOR DIPLOMACY"
Castro’s recent offer to provide free medical training and Cuban doctors to the U.S. is a blatant attempt to manipulate public policy based on false medical claims, according to an article in the current issue of THE MEDICAL SENTINEL -- The Official Journal of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
"Cubans so-called doctor diplomacy may have begun in the manner of an assistance program for guerilla movements, but soon turned into big business for Havana." The article concludes that, in addition to ideological and political conflicts, there are compelling public health reasons for rejecting Castro’s proposal.
Last June, Castro made what he called an "offer that could not be refused" to provide Cuban doctors and free medical training to the U.S. in a meeting with Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MI) and a delegation of African-American lawmakers touring Cuba. Castro currently sponsors a program of "doctor diplomacy" in wich Cuban-trained doctors are stationed and supervised in many third-world countries.
But upon examination of public records, the authors conclude that Castro’s apparent humanitarian overtures are actually thinly veiled attempts to further Cubans’ sphere of influence:
Cuban medical training requires dedication to communism;
Cuban doctors generate ten of millions of dollars for the Castro regime;
Cuban claims of "better" medical outcomes compared to the U.S. are false;
Cuban-trained doctors remain under Castro’s control;
Cuban medical training is poor in comparison to the U.S.
1. COMMUNIST REQUIREMENTS
The authors cite public documents that reveal that Cuban medical schools require that a physician "must become a communist and he or she must pledge to improve his or her skills as a communist." Cuban medical school graduates must also "swear to be like Che Guevara." They warn "These young American students will undergo an aggressive brainwashing and indoctrinating process through which they will become Castro’s pawns."
2. PROFIT MOTIVE
Cuba receives many millions of dollars every year for doctors serving in other countries while the doctors are paid subsistence wages. For example, Cuba receives monthly revenues estimated at $1.2 million from Zimbabwe alone.
3. CUBAS FALSE MEDICAL CLAIMS
Cuba claims to have an infant mortality rate slightly lower than the U.S. But upon further examination, this claim is quite misleading. The reality is that Cuban physicians are coerced into using extraordinary means to skew the infant mortality rate in return for financial incentives. "Life support may be artificially instituted and continued on an individual infant...to achieve a numerical goal in the infant mortality of a particular health sector or region."
The article reveals that the mortality rate of children in Cuba from 1 to 4 years is 34% HIGHER than the U.S. (11.8 versus 8.8 per 1000). Also, the maternal mortality rate in Cuba is almost FOUR TIMES that of the U.S. rate (33 versus 8.4 per 1000).
4. CONTROL OF CUBAN-TRAINED DOCTORS
Medical students who accept Castro’s offer of free medical training may find themselves indentured serfs to Cuba’s communism. Regulations require that "medical doctors must serve 3 to 5 years in designated areas in the island of Cuba before they are considered for permission to leave the island." And even if they are ever allowed to return to the U.S., they may not be able to shake the influence. "The physicians serving in these units are essentially under the surveillance all the time and any change in their plans not consistent with the orders given from Havana invariably leads to the involvement of police or paramilitary security forces."
5. CUBAS POOR MEDICAL TRAINING
Only 25% of Cuban-trained physicians pass the medical exams required to practice in the U.S.
CONCLUSION:
The offer of Castro to train for free low-income Americans must be refused because his claims of health achievements are based on propaganda that is not indicative of health, well-being, or adequate standards of living. Castro’s offer is one of malicious distraction, and a propagandistic attempt to improve on the perception of the health standards and achievement claims of his Revolution.
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Good luck in trying to practice medicine in the USA, Comrade Doktor Bejarano....
And I'm not kidding. I have seen a few Cuban ex-pats hit a brick wall because their medical education could not be "adequately documented" by some residency programs -- including the University of Miami......
Geez. You'd a thunk that the writer of this article could have thought of ONE intelligent question to ask him and not just spout commie propaganda. Nah.
I wouldn't have expected any intelligent questions from the reporter; journalists are educated at the same secondary schools and universities that "educated" this future doctor.
In the middle of a war against terrorism, it borders on treason to send American students to Cuba, the most important worldwide training base for terrorists for the last four decades. How many more Johny Walkers does our country need? How many more 9/11s are necessary in order to realize Castro’s menace to the U.S.?
I find it outrageous that many of those black leaders who are asking for reparations for the descendants of black slavery are fervently supporting the greatest slave owner in history, Fidel Castro, who keeps 11 million people, black, whites, and every other race and religious creed, under bondage in Cuba. They are the same black leaders who found repugnant the South African apartheid system but support a no less abhorrent apartheid regime imposed upon the Cuban people. I wonder if the reason is because in Castro’s Cuba it’s applied equally to blacks and whites?
CASTRO AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
Por Agustín Blázquezand Jaums Sutton
NewsMaxCA
Colaboración:
Paul Echaniz
La Nueva Cuba
September 20, 2001
With the criminal terrorist attack against the U.S. it seems to be pertinent to bring to the forefront information about Castro that, although in public records, has been dangerously ignored by the U.S. government and the American people - perhaps to satisfy the far-left agenda controlling the media and academia.
Cuba’s proximity to the U.S. and Castro’s hatred for this country and its institutions, and his years of training, arming and aiding terrorists to conduct his public war against the U.S. and his sinister underground plans against this country to cause havoc and destruction, make it relevant to point out these well-founded facts. America’s wake-up call must include our hemisphere’s greatest international terrorist.
The documentation of Fidel Castro’s known involvement in international terrorism goes back to his active participation in the April 1948 revolt in Bogota, Colombia. According to Georgie Anne Geyer’s "Guerrilla Prince," this revolt left 5,000 dead and a third of Bogota in ashes. The same book recounts his involvement in the December 1948 attempt to overthrow Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.
In addition, Castro masterminded a failed terrorist attack on the Moncada Garrison on July 26, 1953, where his men killed, in cold blood, soldiers in their hospital beds. After Batista pardoned and released Castro from a privileged tenure of about 19 months of his 15-year sentence for his Moncada attack, he went to Mexico, where in August 1955 he established contact with the Soviet KGB agent Nikolai Leonov. And the future of Cuba was compromised onto a sinister, radical, left-wing fascist path.
After his return to Cuba in the Sierra Maestra, he began blackmailing, terrorizing and executing farmers in that area who refused to supply him with food or join his effort. He also kidnapped American marines and others to gain political leverage. In the cities, his terrorist actions in public places resulted in many civilian deaths. According to Dr. Armando Lago’s research for a book, "2,826 lost their lives during the struggle against Batista between March 10, 1952 and December 31, 1958. Castro’s forces were responsible for 1432 of the deaths and Batista for 1394."
Dr. Lago says his figures are based on details provided by Bohemia magazine, although, as a supporter of Castro, the magazine’s headline proclaimed 20,000 deaths – the figure often quoted by Castro. Castro’s unsupported figure of 20,000 is what the media publishes all over the world without questioning its veracity as do as the academics in the learning centers in the U.S. and abroad.
Castro’s reign of terror began with his takeover of Cuba in 1959 and his summary executions without trials, massive incarcerations, setting aside the Constitution and organizing doomed armed operations against Panama and the Dominican Republic to export his left-wing fascist terror, disguised as "liberation."
Because of his well-documented hatred for the United States and the freedom it represents, he concocted a plan to send drugs into this country. Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld’s 1988 paper "Narco-Terrorism and the Cuban Connection" refers to a secret report by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) published by the Miami Herald in November 1983 corroborating and dating Castro’s participation in drug-trafficking into the U.S. to 1961.
Castro, with his visceral hatred for the U.S., asked Khrushchev during the October 1962 Missile Crisis to lunch a nuclear attack against the U.S. And during the Vietnam War, Castro dispatched his henchmen to Hanoi to viciously torture U.S. POWs as documented by the historians Stuart Rochester and Frederick Riley’s book "Honor Bound."
Since very early on Castro has been involved in arming, training and offering sanctuary to terrorists from all over the world. Dr. Ehrenfeld says in her paper that the 1979 edition of the "Soviet Military Encyclopedia" recommends "the use of ‘biological weapons, narcotics, terrorist activities, poisons and other methods. This definition accords with a decision made at the Tri-Continental Conference of world revolutionary groups held in Havana in January 1966. The decision called for the planned destabilization of the United States and explicitly detailed such activities as the exploitation and undermining of American society through the trafficking of drugs and promotion of other corrupting criminal activities."
According to Irving Louis Horowitz’s Preface of David J. Kopilow’s 1985 paper "Castro, Israel and the PLO," this Tri-Continental Conference, heavily attended by more than 500 delegates from radical leftist groups and terrorists, led "a series of moves ranging from Cuban co-sponsorship of the U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning ‘Zionism as Racism’ to manifest training and support for PLO efforts." Castro provided tank crews that fought alongside the Syrians against Israel in the 1973 Syrian-Israeli "war of attrition." At a point, Cuba had 3,000 troops deployed in Syria.
Horowitz says, "even the exceptional talents of Jewish writers on post-revolutionary Cuba, often harnessed in support of the Castro regime, reveals a seamier side: the deep, embittered silence of these scholars of Jewish origin when confronted with the burdensome evidence of Castro’s unbridled anti-Semitism, coupled with the near total disintegration of the pre-1959 thriving Jewish community of Havana in particular and Cuba in general." Castro decimated the Jewish community in Cuba; today about 700 remain.
"Castro has helped the PLO gain prominence in the United Nations and other international arenas, introduced the PLO into Central America, [and Africa] provided direct military support by sending troops to the Middle East, and giving training to PLO terrorists." And Kopilow also documents that one of the most famous graduates of the Cuban terrorist training’s camps was Illich Ramirez Sanchez, known as "’Carlos the Jackal,’ who was responsible for much success of Palestinian terrorism in Europe."
He also says, "The Havana office of the PLO is now located in the same building which houses the Cuban Zionist Center." In 1981, the PLO arranged a Libyan loan to Cuba of nearly $50 million.
Castro maintains close working relations with Libya’s Moammar Qaddafi. According to an AP dispatch dated May 16, 2001, Castro visited Qaddafi “six times" from March 6 to May 16, 2001. This last suspicious visit was after visiting Algeria, Iran, Malaysia, Qatar and Syria. Qaddafi even presented him in the past with a "human rights" award for "his fight against the U.S."
Castro cultivates the alliance of other devotee warmonger/U.S.-hating tyrants such as Iraq’s Saddam Hussein as well as other state sponsors of terrorism in the Middle East and other parts of the world. Curiously, they all appear on the U.S. State Department's "Patterns of Global Terrorism – 2000," released on April 30, 2001. This is an annual report sent to Congress that has been listing Cuba since 1993; see U.S. Cuba Policy Report, April 30, 2001, page 9. Castro developed a relationship with Saddam Hussein since both share a fondness for bacteriological weapons. In a September 1997 article by Jonathan T. Stride titled "Who Will Check Out Fidel Castro’s New Chemical/Biological Weapons Plant in East Havana?", Castro’s chemical/biological weapons factories are exposed – probably based on a Confidential Report translated from Spanish on February 1997.
Also, we can find more information about Castro’s involvement with bacteriological and chemical warfare in Dr. Manuel Cereijo’s paper "Castro: A Threat To The Security Of The United States," dated October 1997. In an article in Spanish by Roberto Fabricio published by El Nuevo Herald on June 20, 1999. And in an Executive Summary titled "Is Castro Preparing for a Gotterdammerun?" by Ernesto F. Betancourt, Sept. 9, 1999, we can see the connection between the tyrants.
In his summary Betancourt says, "It has been widely commented that the CIA has found that the genetic and biotechnology industry, one of Castro’s pet projects, is nothing but a cover for developing biological weapons. This industry is housed in a complex of buildings in the Miramar zone of Havana, some of which are reported to have the usual security measures associated with biological weapons development. It is this knowledge that led Defense Secretary William Cohen in 1998 to caution the earlier Pentagon report about Cuba not being any longer a military threat to the U.S."
In another paper by Betancourt dated October 18, 1999, titled "The Encephalitis Outbreak, Hussein and Castro: A CIA/CDC Cover-Up?", he traced the possible connection and cooperation between the two tyrants exporting viruses to the U.S. Betancourt, among others, cites The New Yorker’s October 18-25, 1999 article by Richard Preston saying "a quotation made by Saddam refers to a dossier about ‘details of his ultimate weapon, developed in secret laboratories outside Iraq.
Free of U.N. inspection, the laboratories would develop the SV1417 strain of the West Nile virus –capable of destroying 97 percent of life in an urban environment . . ..’ Now, where could such a research be undertaken?"
Betancourt suggests a few characteristics that will help pin point these "secret laboratories outside Iraq." "It must have a technological capability to undertake such research, a country friendly to Iraq and hostile to the U.S., outside the reach of any U.N. inspection, a closed society, where these activities can be free of press coverage; and located within the reach of migratory birds. There is one place on earth that meets those requirements: Castro’s Cuba. The research undertaken in Cuba is precisely centered on developing virus strains suitable to be inoculated to the many migratory birds that fly North-South in the Fall and South-North in the Spring. It can be concluded that Cuba is the most plausible candidate for the germ warfare research and development activities referred to by Saddam Hussein in The New Yorker article."
This paper quotes John Roehrig of the CDC saying, "it is not yet clear how the virus got to New York, but it could be from bird migration or from virus-carrying imported birds that infected the area’s mosquito population." Citing details from others, Betancourt concludes, "How this virus reached the U.S. is an epidemiological mystery, since it has never been identified in North or South America. Castro has been for almost twenty years engaged in the development of germ warfare capabilities as well as in a delivery system using migratory birds to introduce epidemics into the U.S. to be transmitted by mosquitoes."
According to a former researcher of the Cuban Zoo Institute who now lives in Switzerland, Carlos Wotzkow, author of the 1998 book Natumaleza Cubana, we learn on its page 65 that unfortunately, the Smithsonian Institution collaborated with Castro by economically funding the study of migratory birds along with the University of Pennsylvania.
According to a well-informed source wishing to remain anonymous, the following U.S. institutions collaborated with information and gave funds to Cuba to conduct the study of migratory birds. They are the Department of Ornithology of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Nebraska Section of the Department of the Interior, The Audubon Society and RARE, a Center for Tropical Conservation, supported by the MacArthur Foundation. Let me clarify that these U.S. institutions probably did not have any idea that the information gained by Cuba was going to be used for the sinister purpose of exporting diseases to the U.S.
And sadly, American tourists leave their money in Cuba ignoring that they are contributing to the support of a terrorist regime that seeks their own destruction.
According to Castro’s own words, "his destiny" will be "to wage a war against them" [the U.S.], as he wrote on June 5, 1958 to his secretary, the late Celia Sanchez (available in public records). The message is loud and clear, how naïve can we afford to continue being in the U.S.?
Radio Marti reported last August 26, 2001, as well as other American newspapers, that the West Nile virus in the U.S. has been spreading faster then expected. Radio Marti reported cases in north Florida. Other newspapers reported cases in New York, Baltimore, Washington, D.C. and Georgia. Radio Marti reported that Wotzkow says that "in 1980 Castro ordered the unleashing of a biological war against the U.S." and quoted Dr. Luis Roberto Hernandez saying "Cuba’s laboratories identify and produce viruses for migratory birds." Betancourt’s article published in Spanish in Miami’s El Nuevo Herald appeared as the main source in Radio Marti’s report.
In addition, Castro’s Cuba is a training ground and sanctuary for Basque terrorists responsible for hundreds of deaths in Spain, terrorists from Ireland, Colombia, Puerto Rico and other nationalities, hijackers, drug-traffickers, outlaws, fugitive U.S. criminals, and a collection of the scum of the earth (all U.S.-haters).
Cuba, 90 miles from the U.S., has two powerful spy stations in the outskirts of Havana. One built and still updated and maintained by the former Soviet Union, and another built not long ago by our Chinese "friends." Both of these stations are actively engaged in collecting
military, economic and civilian information and are certainly sharing their findings with terrorists worldwide.
According to Dr. Manuel Cereijo‘s 1997 paper, they have the capability "of interrupting commercial and military computer communications in the United States, in case of a confrontation with this country." Also, Cereijo says that Cuba regularly develops computer viruses "with the intent of using them to disrupt computer systems during time of war or crisis." Many Cuban Americans in the U.S. have had their computers damaged by made-in-Cuba viruses.
Castro still keeps sending his agents and spies to the U.S. His U.N. Cuban Mission in New York and the Cuba Interests Section in Washington, D.C. are nothing but nests of trained security agents posing as diplomats. Last April 2000, in Washington, D.C., a press conference was broadcast by local FOX TV protesting the Cuban "diplomats" attack of peaceful demonstrators on U.S. soil. In it, Joe Carrollo, the Mayor of Miami, revealed an intelligence report charging current Cuba Charge d’Affairs, Fernando Remirez de Estenoz, as the person who introduced bacteriological weapons to kill blacks by Cuban soldiers during the war in Angola, Africa.
With the end of Soviet communism, the U.S. government and the American people thought that the danger to this country was over. But it is not so for as long as there are so many nations who literally hate our guts and are overcome with envy for what this country is thanks to our freedom and democracy.
Recently, this hatred was clearly demonstrated by expelling the U.S. from the U.N. Commission on Human Rights and by the shameless racist conduct of many nations during the recent U.N. World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa. Among those attending that sham was Castro, one of the oldest tyrants in the Western World, who violates all human rights and, as documented by Jim Guirard in a recent article, "Behind the Mask - A Fascist Fidel," practices racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia and sexism.
Castro also practices apartheid and caused the deaths of more than 100,000 in Cuba and thousands abroad. As usual, Castro blasted and blamed the U.S. for all evil in the world, and his many admirers in the U.N. applauded him with gusto.
For as long as this unjust hatred for the U.S. persists and rogue nations, such as Cuba, among others, give sanctuary to international terrorists and collaborate by providing training, intelligence, and logistic support, despicable and unforgivable acts like the attack of Sept. 11, 2001, will continue. Do not get confused by the hypocritical messages of condolence sent by Castro and many of our cowardly enemies who aid and give sanctuary to terrorism and now fear the might of this nation and its people.
It is time for America to wake up to the realities surrounding us and realize that not all cultures share our values. It is time for resolve and to go to the root of the problems, which are a group of nations, run by tyrannies that are unable to live and let live in a civilized way and in peace with the rest of the planet. The choice is clear. Castro hasn’t (yet) orchestrated a massive event causing the instant deaths of thousands of Americans, but the effects of his actions – spread out over 42 years – have probably affected even more. And are the tourists who help support him and the media so anxious to give him the opportunity to spread his word, now, officially (in the words of our president) accomplices?
Inexcusable ignorance
The Miami Herald
Posted on Tue, Feb. 19, 2002
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/editorial/letters/2698169.htm