Cuban doctors: Brazil’s plan to import more than 10,000 doctors from Cuba to treat the poor in urban slums and far-flung villages is causing an uproar. President Dilma Rousseff ordered the influx in response to last year’s street protests over the lack of services for the poor. It’s a great deal for the Brazilians, who face a chronic shortage of health-care providers, but not for the doctors, who will receive only one tenth of the $4,300 a month Brazil is paying Cuba for their labor. Brazilian physicians unions are protesting, calling the Cubans “slave doctors.” Union leader Geraldo Ferreira said the money would be better spent investing in clinics in the jungles. “This is the biggest labor fraud we have ever seen in Brazil,” he said.
