FOREIGN AFFAIRS: East Timor: the Cubans are coming*

In the last two years, almost 300 Cuban doctors have arrived in East Timor as part of an agreement of “international solidarity” between former Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri and Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro.A patient at Dr Dan Murphy’s overcrowded Bairro Pité Clinic. (Patients are reportedly scared of being treated by Cuban doctors).The old Lahane Hospital, in the best part of East Timor’s capital Dili, is now residence for Cuban doctors.There are reported to be 75 in Dili where t…

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