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In reply to the discussion: Two Cuban women's players missing at tournament [View all]iverglas
(38,549 posts)This is the ridiculous part of the anti-Cuba ranting.
Wherever they wish? Or wherever another country will allow them?
Are the citizens of any country in the world free to just go and work wherever they wish?
No. I'm Canadian, and I'm not. I could work temporarily in the UK because my grandparents were born there. I could work temporarily in the US under NAFTA because of my particular occupation. That's it.
I haven't been to Cuba in quite a while, but made numerous trips there in the 70s and 80s, staying with Canadians (a doctor who trained there in the 60s and remained for many years, eventually in charge of a polyclinic; Canadian development agency workers running programs there) and travelling independently around the island by bicycle and local bus. I was treated at a Cuban hospital, free of charge and well, after a fall (x-rays, innoculation, medication). My brother worked there for a year in a job I had been offered when I was visiting, as a local hire (i.e. directly for a Cuban agency, not through a foreign government). Problems, yes. Worse problems than any other colonized nation in the Caribbean or Latin America? Don't make me laugh.
Lift the ugly embargo and see what happens.