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Comandante · Verfasst am: 15.11.2005 08:41 Titel: Castro's Medical Mercenaries

While clinics crumble at home, bereft Cuban doctors are dispatched on El Jefe's goodwill missions. But their purpose, it turns out, is more than just charity care.
At 4 A.M., hours before a pink sun would climb above the hills near Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, Leonel Córdova was jerked awake. "Get up! Get up, now!" screamed the figure bursting through the door. Córdova, a doctor from Cuba, sat up on the couch. A policeman from the brutish African state, muscles bulging under his jacket and khaki-colored trousers, towered over the medic, pointing a gun barrel in his face. Córdova could hardly breathe. There was at least one other cop in the small, dark room now, with a gun trained on another Cuban, a dentist named Noris Peña.

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