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Panama defends hiring Cuban doctors to fight pandemic Tue 09th February 2021 | 10:00 AM
Panama City, Feb 9 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 9th Feb, 2021 ) :Panama s health minister defended the deployment of more than 200 Cuban doctors to help the Central American country battle the coronavirus, despite criticism of the island government s human rights record at home. We are eternally grateful to the Cuban doctors because they came here to save the lives of Panamanians, Luis Francisco Sucre said during an appearance before the National Assembly to answer questions about the management of the pandemic.
Several deputies criticized the Panamanian government s decision to hire the 220 Cuban doctors, calling it a violation of human rights. But Sucre defended the agreement between his ministry and its Cuban counterpart, which he said complies with all due legal processes. He said his government would not hesitate to sign it again. The same people who today criticize
The
Times article covers, in
Voice of America style, the November San Isidro protest in Havana. There, Denis Solis was arrested for refusing to appear for a subpoena and for threatening a police officer. The police did not handcuff him, beat him, tase him, pepper spray him, nor hold a knee on his neck. Solis previously received several fines for disturbing the peace and two official warnings for harassing tourists. He accepted the sentence and did not appeal.
Solis, who declares his love for Donald Trump, admitted to receiving money from a person associated with attacks carried out in Cuba. A group of about twenty, the San Isidro Movement (MSI), soon organized a short “hunger strike” to protest his arrest.
EL FLORIDO, Guatemala
A once large caravan of Honduran migrants that pushed its way into Guatemala last week had dissipated by Tuesday in the face of Guatemalan security forces. Small groups pressed on toward the Mexican border, while others accepted rides from authorities back to Honduras.
Many of the migrants were driven by an increasingly desperate situation in Honduras, where the economic ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic and two major hurricanes in November have piled atop chronic poverty and gang violence. That combined with a hope that the new U.S. administration of President-elect Joe Biden would be more welcoming gave birth to the year’s first caravan.
3,000 Migrants Continue Toward U.S. After Guatemalan Military Breaks Up Larger Caravan
On 1/22/21 at 3:06 PM EST
After Guatemalan security forces dissipated a large caravan of Honduran migrants on Tuesday, a third of the group continued their journey toward the U.S. border.
Three thousand migrants managed to press forward to the Mexican border as the rest of the crowd returned home, according to Honduran newspaper
La Prensa.
Many of the migrants are driven by an increasingly desperate situation in Honduras, where residents face grave poverty and gang violence. Living conditions only worsened last November after two major hurricanes, Eta and Iota, caused severe destruction.