Cuban medical missions face scrutiny amid allegations of forced labor

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Thousands of Cuban doctors work abroad under state-run medical missions. While Cuba calls it solidarity, critics call it forced labor. As the OAS investigates and the US imposes visa bans, The World hears from doctors who left the program, and others who are still in it.

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