Trump Targets Italy in His Push to Halt Cuba’s Export of Doctors

President Donald Trump is taking his pressure campaign against Cuba to Europe, mounting a renewed US push for Italy to halt its use of doctors from the struggling Caribbean nation.

The Trump administration’s top diplomat in Havana is in Italy to lobby against the use of Cuban health workers, according to people familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to discuss private matters.

Sending doctors and nurses abroad generates a significant amount of hard currency for the cash-strapped island, at times bringing in more revenue than tourism. Washington, however, sees the program as akin to slave labor.

A delegation of Cuban doctors.

Photographer: Lionel Chamoiseau/AFP/Getty Images

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