Dumping medicine, faking patients: Cuban doctors describe a system that breeds fraud
January 29, 2017
Jim Wyss, Miami Herald
Photo Credit: Jim Wyss/Miami Herald
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.