{"id":387233,"date":"2018-12-01T01:12:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T00:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cubas-first-military-doctors-part-1\/"},"modified":"2018-12-01T01:12:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T00:12:22","slug":"cubas-first-military-doctors-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cubas-first-military-doctors-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba\u2019s First Military Doctors (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>[Part 1 of this two-part series addresses the need for Cuba\u2019s participation in conflicts in Zaire, the Congo and Guinea-Bissau during the 1960s to remain concealed for over three decades. It covers the background to the struggles, what Cubans found in Africa, the role of race relations in Cuba\u2019s campaigns, and the recruitment of doctors. Part 2 will explore the working conditions of revolutionary military doctors, physical and emotional consequences for participating physicians, interactions with African civilians, Cuba\u2019s first large medical scholarship program, the first mass vaccination effort in Africa, and how Cuba\u2019s military and medical efforts affected Africa.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*****<\/p>\n<p>Cuba\u2019s deployment of military doctors to Africa in the 1960s was secret, known only at the highest level of government.\u00a0 Accounts of these hidden efforts were not published until the beginning of the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple forces during that decade pulled Cuba toward struggles in sub-Saharan Africa.\u00a0 First was the mushrooming of popular movements across the globe.\u00a0 The US civil rights movement was joined by millions opposing the war on Viet Nam.\u00a0 Zaire won independence from Belgium in June 1960 and the popular Patrice Lumumba became its first prime minister.\u00a0 After leading the National Liberation Front to victory over French domination in 1962, Ahmed Ben Bella was elected as the first president of Algeria.\u00a0 In August, 1966 Mao launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/11\/cubas-first-military-doctors-part-1\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Part 1 of this two-part series addresses the need for Cuba\u2019s participation in conflicts in Zaire, the Congo and Guinea-Bissau during the 1960s to remain concealed for over three decades. It covers the background to the struggles, what Cubans found in Africa, the role of race relations in Cuba\u2019s campaigns, and the recruitment of doctors. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}