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The United States says it has not recently held discussions with Saint Lucia on international education, including arrangements involving Cuba.
In a statement posted on social media, the US government said it respects the sovereign decisions of countries regarding the education of their citizens. It added that it continues to call for an end to what it described as exploitation and forced labour linked to Cuba’s overseas medical missions programme.
The statement followed public concern after comments by Saint Lucia Prime Minister Philip J Pierre, who said Washington had instructed his government to discontinue sending students to Cuba to study medicine. Speaking at the Second World Congress on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, Pierre said, “Many of our doctors got trained in Cuba, and now the great United States has said we can’t do that any longer.”
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