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On November 14, the Government of Cuba changed the lives of thousands of Cubans by announcing the withdrawal of doctors who were assigned to Brazil under the Más Médicos program. This is the case of A. S. B., a 30-year-old Cuban doctor who is now being forced to return to his home country.
However, he is clear that his return to the largest of the Antilles will not happen, and during an interview with the newspaper Globo, he stated that he is not afraid of reprisals.
"I won't return to Cuba even if I have to pick up trash or sweep the streets," he asserts emphatically. This healthcare professional claims that he can no longer believe in the Cuban leaders.
On Thursday, it was reported that their flight back to Cuban territory will depart on December 5 from Brasilia airport.
March 2017 is now behind us, when he arrived in Brazilian territory from Santiago de Cuba, sent by a government that keeps its doctors in conditions of slavery.
He currently lives in Pirapetinga, a municipality of about 10,000 residents in Minas Gerais. There, he was the only family doctor in the city.
A. S. B. is clear that he will not return the call from the Government of Cuba, which decided to withdraw the doctors after refusing to accept the conditions set by the elected president, Jair Bolsonaro.
The leader agreed to keep the Cuban doctors as long as they could bring their families with them, received a full salary, and faced the revalidation process.
The Cuban doctor Adrián Estrada Barber, who was part of the Más Médicos brigade in Brazil for nearly three years, has already stated that many of his colleagues will not return to the Island.
Havana expects that the 8,332 Cuban doctors currently in Brazil will leave the country before December 12th.
This Thursday, the first flights to Havana began departing from Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Manaus, and Salvador.
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