Commentator José Eduardo Cardozo and journalist and former senator Ana Amélia Lemos discussed, this Friday (15), in The Great Debate (Monday to Friday, at 11pm), if the more doctors program with Cubans was a hit or a mistake.
The program has been the target of criticism from the United States. The State Department announced the revocation of visas of people it called “accomplices” of what would be a scheme of.
For Cardozo, the program was successful.
“From the first time when it was sketched and the minister himself was Alexandre Padilha, he was a strictly correct program. Brazil has a lack of doctors, especially in the poorest regions of the country,” he said.
“Today we have more Brazilians, less Cubans, but ideological criticism is still lit. The United States relentlessly pursued Cuba, that siege he does preventing things from selling things, not even visited to enter the United States if you were in Cuba,” he continued.
Ana Amelia estimates that the partnership with Cuba was a mistake.
“I was in Cuba more than once, at the time I went to him had not even analgesics to offer people, I heard from Cubans this. The other question was precariousness. The money that was received, a very small portion was with doctors who worked in Brazil and the other was going to the Cuban state to finance, perhaps, his health system or the political system,” he said.
“The repair I make is the choice of partner. Although it was a good program, but the partner was not ideal for that moment,” he said.
