Venezuela Paid $5.6 Billion For Cuban Doctors In 2008.

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According to the estimates made by Cuban economist Carmelo Mesa, the Venezuelan government spent USD $5.6 billion in 2008, to pay doctors, nurses and other Cuban professionals working in Venezuela.
Mesa, a visiting professor of Latin American Studies at Tulane University, wonders: "What happened to all the Cuban doctors who were residing in Venezuela and for whom the South American country paid that sum last year? Where are those doctors?" According to Mesa, this is a "situation difficult to explain."