Weekly Report - 20 February 2014 (WR-14-07)

Brazil’s foreign minister, Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, was in Havana on 13 February for talks with his Cuban counterpart Bruno Parrilla over the recent desertions of Cuban doctors from the ‘Mais Médicos’ scheme, under which just over 5,700 Cuban medics have been imported to work in remote regions of Brazil where there is an acute shortage of local medical personnel.

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