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Dumping medicine, faking patients: Cuban doctors describe a system that breeds fraud

January 29, 2017

Jim Wyss, Miami Herald
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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA--Since 2003, Cuba has been sending battalions of doctors to Venezuela in exchange for cash and crude.

The program, known as Barrio Adentro, offers free medical care to some of the nation’s poorest. It’s been credited with saving more than a million lives and is one of the pillars of the socialist revolution.

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