MIAMI, United States.- The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has once again come out in defense of the hiring of Cuban doctors and has called the opposition’s criticism of his plan “infamous”, reported this Wednesday the news agency Europe Press.
According to the information, López Obrador assures that the arrival of doctors from the island is aimed at strengthening health care in those areas of the country that are most neglected. “Whether they like it or not, we are going to continue to have the support of specialists that we do not have in the country,” said the president, adding that, of the nearly 10,500 places available in the last public call, just over 500 doctors registered to apply for positions.
López Obrador criticized those who question the measure taken by his government, aimed at “helping” Mexico in health matters, because according to the president, “for a long time” the country’s authorities neglected public education and looted and robbed it.
“Those same ones, who should be ashamed of the decline they caused, now stand as champions of justice, of freedom; today they shout like criers, but they were accomplices and kept silent when the country was being looted like never before in the history of Mexico,” he pointed out.
Since the beginning of May, when the Mexican president announced that he had signed a health agreement with Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel, criticism from the opposition and from medical colleges in the Aztec country has not ceased.
López Obrador is accused of financing the communist dictatorship in Havana through the hiring of more than 500 Cuban doctors.
At the end of last July, the senator from Guanajuato Alejandra “La Wera” Reynoso demanded the government Mexican to stop financing the Cuban regime through its doctors, and assured that the arrival in Aztec territory of Cuban doctors to work in rural areas was just a pretext of the federal government of the Fourth Transformation to finance the dictatorship of Havana .
“What we have been denouncing for two years is this method of financing the Cuban regime, using the pretext of health, and I say this using the pretext because it is finally proven that it is not only in Mexico, but in many countries, knows how the Cuban government uses doctors, the doctors, the entire health sector, to finance itself,” said the legislator.
Last week it became known that the Castro regime would be charging 1,177,300 euros per month, the equivalent of 1,195,936 dollars, for the group of doctors who have arrived in Mexico in recent weeks.
The figure would have been stipulated in the agreement signed between the authorities of both countries, according to information revealed by the newspaper El Financiero.
The sum, which fueled the controversy in Mexico regarding the doctors from the island, must as a condition of the contract be deposited in a bank account of the so-called Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos SA (CSMC).
According to El Financiero, the money will be paid to the government of Havana for the services of 610 Cuban professionals who came to Mexico to fill, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on several occasions, a part of the 5,329 medical vacancies that were not claimed. by Mexican doctors in highly marginalized and insecure areas.
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