Nicolas Maduro has presided over Venezuela's collapsing society (see label Venezuela) since the death of Hugo Chavez in 2013. You've seen the protests, the immense lines of people hoping to buy food. Two million have fled the country.
Cuba's government wants to prop up the rule of Maduro according to this report in the NYT. Before the last election - commonly known to have been rigged - Cuba sent thousands of doctors. Not to help the people, but to help Maduro win:
"Cuban doctors said they were ordered to go door-to-door in impoverished neighborhoods, offering medicine and warning residents that they would be cut off from medical services if they did not vote for Mr. Maduro or his candidates."
Instructions were given to the doctors on how to manipulate patients to vote for Maduro. Foreign medical workers were given counterfeit ID cards so they could vote for Maduro. Treatment was forbidden to opposition supporters. Oxygen was withheld from heart patients.
“These are the kinds of things you should never do in your life,” said one doctor.
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