CUBA INCREASES ITS "MEDICAL" PRESENCE (INFILTRATED TERRORISTS) IN VENEZUELA IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CRISIS

Cuba sent to Venezuela a new group of 500 doctors to reinforce the detachment of thousands of medical professionals and "collaborators of other profiles" who are already in the oil country, reported the state newspaper Granma.
According to the pro-government publication, Cuban personnel arrived in Venezuela aboard airplanes of Conviasa and Cubana de Aviación to increase the presence of Cuban personnel to 21,700 specialists by the end of this year.
The increase in personnel on the island raises doubts in Venezuela about reports that cooperation programs between the two countries are being used by Havana's intelligence apparatus and the fact that a large part of the Cuban health care network has stopped operate due to lack of inputs.
The importance of the Cuban program, which once cost Venezuela more than $ 5,000 million a year, lies not so much in the medical program known as Barrio Adentro, but in the contributions that Caracas receives in terms of intelligence, they established the department of State and private intelligence firm Stratfor, in documents leaked by WikiLeaks.

According to experts, that explains why preserving the assistance program has become one of the priorities of the socialist regime in Caracas, even though the economic collapse and oil production of the country has left it without enough foreign currency to import food and medicine.
"Cuba is today the true support that it has in power," Antonio De La Cruz, executive director of the Inter-American Trends firm, recently explained.
"Without Cuban support, Maduro would have left a long time ago and Havana is today providing him with the instruments of repression and the intelligence apparatus that allows him to stay in power in the midst of the whirlwind he finds himself in," he explained.
Even when the country is bankrupt and can barely send the volumes of crude it needs to maintain its obligations, the regime has shown to be willing to continue maintaining the program.
Currently, Venezuela sends to Cuba about 55,000 barrels per day of oil, which represent about $ 1,200 million per year.
That amount could well serve to alleviate the impact on the population of a ferocious hyperinflation, which will exceed a rate of 1.3 million percent this year, or to urgently import needed medicines or alleviate the hunger of more than nine million Venezuelans who say they eat only once a day, analysts emphasize.

But the announcement also raises questions about the fact that a large part of the health care network created with Barrio Adentro is currently inoperative due to the lack of supplies and medicines, say Venezuelan NGOs that monitor the country's health system.

The Integrated Diagnostic Centers (CDI), controlled by Cuban personnel, operate at less than 20 percent of their capacity, as do the vast majority of public health care centers, according to data from the Venezuelan Medical Federation.