For decades, Cuba has deployed tens of thousands of doctors and nurses to underserved regions of the globe. But those ...

Now it’s aiming at Cuba’s international medical missions.

Trump's memo “supports the economic embargo of Cuba and opposes calls in the United ... visa restrictions on Cuban and foreign government officials involved in Cuba’s medical missions, which Secretary ...

The United States and Cuba have had a strained relationship since Fidel Castro took over in a 1959 revolution, and a U.S. trade embargo has been in place for decades.

Cuba's medical missions program, started after the 1959 communist revolution, has long been controversial, particularly among critics in Washington who equate it to modern-day slavery.

A senior Cuban diplomat has accused the Trump administration of trying to discredit the thousands of Cuban doctors working around the world and deprive the country of an important source of income.

June 4 (UPI) --The U.S. State Department has imposed visa restrictions on an unspecified number of Central American government officials accused of being involved in Cuba's medical mission program.

But the State Department wants countries to reconsider asking Cuba for help in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. “Cuba offers its international medical missions to those afflicted with # ...

President Donald Trump has instructed his top Cabinet officials to review the US policy toward Cuba, ordering them to examine current sanctions and come up with ways to toughen them within 30 days.

Republican administrations have tried to target Cuba’s medical missions before, but Mr. Trump is taking a harder line: In February, for the first time, the U.S. government said it would withdraw ...

Cuba's international medical missions are a form of human trafficking and modern slavery, U.S. State Department officials told a news conference in New York. Ramona Matos, ...

Cuba is offering to send doctors to more countries struggling with the coronavirus. But don't accept their help, the US State Department says. Coronavirus-hit countries are asking Cuba for medical ...