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Wall Street Journal Editorial on Maduro's Indicment; The New York Times on Cuban doctors in Venezuela
Yesterday's editorial in The Wall Street, "Indicting the Caracas Mob: The Justice Department goes after Venezuela’s gangster government" highlighted the indictment Nicolas Maduro "and four of his lieutenants on charges related to narco terrorism drug-trafficking, money laundering and corruption. It also indicted two leaders of the terrorist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The Wall Street Journal also made reference to how "Mr. Maduro increasingly relies on Cuba’s intelligence services for security and organized crime for income. The Justice Department alleges that the heart of all this is the Cartel of the Suns, a drug-trafficking operation named for sun-shaped stars on the uniforms of military and headed by Mr. Maduro."
The Center for a Free Cuba's President, Ambassador Otto J. Reich, in a February 2015 presentation titled "Venezuela: A Deepening Political and Economic Quagmire?" at the Institute for Hemispheric Studies that was led by Susan Kaufman Purcell outlined not only the failed economic model, the transformation into a radical Marxist regime but also the criminal nature of the Maduro regime calling it a kleptocracy in what he termed "a rule by thieves" involved in money laundering and drug trafficking.
Meanwhile, as Cuban doctors are sent on medical missions abroad, medical students are left to monitor thousands of Cubans at home with coronavirus symptoms.
Reports are emerging that poor hygiene is being practiced in quarantine centers creating a dangerous situation where coronavirus could be spreading. The Ministry of Public Health has reported 80 cases of coronavirus, with 1,851 hospitalized and 34,216 under observation at their homes, reported Diario de Cuba on March 27, 2020.
Former prisoner of conscience Ariel Ruiz Urquiola PhD who is a specialist in cell and molecular biology has published "16 tips for Cuban families to avoid coronavirus infection," and it would be useful to distribute widely with friends living in the island. Cubans, as one can see from this photo taken on March 26, 2020 are not practicing social distancing, and that needs to change.
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