{"id":545249,"date":"2026-03-25T23:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/545249\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T23:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:24:10","slug":"mexico-will-continue-accepting-cuban-medical-workers-despite-us-pressure-donald-trump-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/545249\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico will continue accepting Cuban medical workers despite US pressure | Donald Trump News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum praises services from Cuban doctors, who often work in underserved rural areas.<\/p>\n

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum<\/a> has confirmed that her country will continue receiving Cuban medical workers, as part of a longstanding programme meant to build goodwill between the island and other Latin American countries.<\/p>\n

Her remarks on Wednesday come as the United States pressures Latin American countries to sever their ties to Cuba\u2019s medical programme.<\/p>\n

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Sheinbaum, however, told reporters during a news conference that the agreement was a benefit to Mexico. Thousands of Cuban medical workers<\/a> have deployed there since 2022 to work largely in poor, rural areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a very good agreement that\u2019s also been a great help to us. It\u2019s a bilateral agreement that\u2019s been very beneficial for Mexico,\u201d said Sheinbaum.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to get Mexican doctors and specialists to go out to many rural areas where we need medical specialists, and the Cubans are willing to work there.\u201d<\/p>\n

In February, the US passed a law<\/a> that opens the door to sanctions on countries that continue to participate in the programme.<\/p>\n

It called for the US secretary of state to issue a report within 90 days about which countries continue to pay the government of Cuba for the \u201ccoerced and trafficked labour of Cuban medical professionals\u201d.<\/p>\n

The move comes amid a wider push to further isolate Cuba<\/a> and topple the government in Havana, a longtime target of US ire. So far, countries including the Bahamas, Honduras, Guatemala, Jamaica and Guyana have ended their participation in the Cuban medical exchange programme.<\/p>\n

Cuba has long depicted the decades-old programme as a means of signalling solidarity with other countries. It has also become an important source of foreign revenue for the island nation, which has been under a restrictive US economic embargo since 1960.<\/p>\n

The administration of US President Donald Trump, however, has depicted the programme<\/a> as akin to forced labour.<\/p>\n

\u201cBasically, it\u2019s human trafficking,\u201d Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, they\u2019re barely even being paid. Their freedom of movement is tightly restricted. And we want these countries to understand that\u2019s what they\u2019re participating in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Experts at the United Nations have also raised similar concerns, including about the confiscation of passports, which the Cuban government justifies as a means of preventing trained doctors from fleeing the country after their state-sponsored studies.<\/p>\n

The pressure on the Cuban medical missions is part of a broader push under Trump\u2019s second term to seek regime change on the island.<\/p>\n

By threatening tariffs on Cuba\u2019s trading partners, Trump has largely cut the island off from accessing the foreign oil necessary to power its electrical grid.<\/p>\n

Trump has also said that he hopes to \u201ctake\u201d Cuba and install a new government that will be more pliant to US demands.<\/p>\n

The Mexican government has tried to balance its friendly relations with Cuba with the US\u2019s demands.<\/p>\n

In the absence of energy shipments, Sheinbaum\u2019s government has sent vessels with humanitarian aid<\/a> to the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum praises services from Cuban doctors, who often work in underserved rural areas. Published On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,12,2420,97,3140,26,3,111,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-545249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-donald-trump","tag-government","tag-health","tag-latin-america","tag-mexico","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}