USA imposes visa restrictions on Central America governments employees

Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to a commentary request. Havana rejects such accusations for decades.

In February, Rubio expanded a visa restriction policy to reach Cuban authorities that, as believed, are linked to a program that sends Cuban workers abroad, especially health professionals.

The Cuba Health Service generates large export revenues, sending doctors and health professionals around the world.

Since the leftist 1959 revolution, Cuba has sent an “army of white coats” to disasters and outbreaks of disease worldwide in the name of solidarity. In the last decade, they have fought cholera in Haiti and Ebola in West Africa.

But Cuba has also exported doctors in routine missions in exchange for money or goods in recent decades, an increasingly critical source of heavy currency in a country that suffers deep economic crisis.

The United States and Cuba have a tense relationship since Fidel Castro has taken power in the 1959 Revolution, and a US commercial embargo has been in force for decades.