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A longish but excellent treatment about a wave of Cuban doctors who have defected to the U.S. since 2006 under the Cuban Medical Professional Parole immigration program.
It gives Cuban doctors and some other health workers overseas immediate entrance to the U.S. as refugees.
Some 1,574 CMPP visas have been issued by U.S. consulates in 65 countries since the program's inception.
Cuban doctors fight and even bribe for the chance to serve overseas despite the hard, sometimes abusive conditions because of the lure of family stipends and easy access to desirable consumer goods. And, perhaps even freedom to walk Miami's legendary Calle Ocho.
