From Guatemala: The Existential Danger of Hiring Cuban Doctors

The Guatemala Minister of Health, Dr. Joaquim Barnoya Pérez, in collusion with the Deputy Minister of Health Regulation, Surveillance and Control, Edgar Gónzalez Barreno, who has visited Cuba in the past.

The President of the Republic of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, is also responsible, a person who is totally opposed to the thinking of President Donald Trump.

In Brazil, for example, American visas were withdrawn from Brazilian officials for collaborating with the dangerous Cuban regime by hiring ‘supposed Cuban doctors’.
This is precisely what the aforementioned officials did, involving us in the geopolitical danger of these dangerous ideologies.

It is these doctors mission to indoctrinate communities with exploitation and slavery.

We have hope in Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his crusade against those who endorse these dangerous practices, because in the end, they are a danger to the United States.

Therefore, it is time for the Secretary of State to withdrawal of American visas from these bad health officials mentioned above who favour of the Communist Cuban regime.

Part of the fight against organized crime is very complex because with this indoctrination they become instruments of precisely these dangerous groups, penetrating enemies against liberty, truth and Justice in Central American Isthmus and especially for the United States of America.

©2025 Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.). All rights reserved.

NOTE: Dr. Swier has traveled to Cuba and understands how its government enslaves it’s people.

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Guatemala and Cuba sign health cooperation agreement until 2027 

Guatemala City, August 14, 2024.- Guatemalan Health Minister Joaquín Barñoya and Cuban Ambassador to the country Nazario Fernández signed a cooperation agreement on Wednesday until 2027 to strengthen healthcare efforts.

At the capital’s health ministry headquarters, the health minister thanked the people of the largest island in the Caribbean and its medical brigades for reaching the most remote communities, which are sometimes difficult to reach.

He referred to the support provided to this Central American territory in expanding the health service coverage that the nation so desperately needs.

Speaking to deputy ministers and other officials from the organization, he emphasized that the preventive approach to benefiting the Cuban people is something worth emulating and something Guatemala can learn from.

This system of integrated networks, which includes not only the individual but also the family and community within health, is also something worth considering, Barñoya emphasized.

Beyond collaboration, he noted, is that underused word that we so desperately need: the solidarity that one people can show toward another.

The Cuban ambassador described the event as particularly important for the friendly relations between the two countries, with an agreement that continues the uninterrupted presence of the Cuban Medical Brigade for more than 25 years.

Since Hurricane Mitch in 1998, thousands of Cuban health workers have offered their solidarity to help the sister people of Guatemala, he recalled.

When health professionals return to Cuba, they do so with the satisfaction of a job well done, bringing with them the affection of countless grateful Guatemalans, Fernández expressed.

He took the opportunity to acknowledge the island’s enormous sacrifice to develop as a sovereign nation and maintain free education and healthcare for all its citizens. Furthermore, he affirmed, while facing the brutal US government blockade of more than 62 years, which has recently intensified, it also honors its commitments to approximately 60 countries to make its modest contribution to the health of those peoples.

He recalled that this event takes place just one day after an important date for Cubans: the 98th anniversary of the birth of the leader of the Revolution, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, the main protagonist of this cooperation.

In that spirit, Cuban professionals in white coats will continue to provide their services to our sister nation, Guatemala, the ambassador assured.

The coordinator of the Cuban Medical Brigade, Mariheta Cutiño, stated that over the past 25 years, they have participated in programs that not only provide healthcare, but also provide technical assistance in primary and secondary care.

In the training of undergraduate human resources in Cuba, more than a thousand Guatemalans graduated from the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana, he emphasized.

This day fills us with joy because it reaffirms the cooperation and brotherhood in health between both peoples, the coordinator stated.