HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 18 (ACN) Social media in Panama expressed indignation after threats made by Mauricio Claver-Carone, Donald Trump´s special advisor for Latin America, regarding the possible hiring of Cuban physicians.
A few hours after Panamanian President Laurentino Cortizo informed that negotiations with Cuba were under way to send some medical brigades to the country, Claver-Carone publicly announced an immediate high-level visit headed by US National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien.
'The US questioning Cuba's collaboration is a disrespectful interference in our international relations. I would like the US or other countries also to offer to collaborate with Panama in this health crisis,' the rector of the University of Panama, Eduardo Flores, wrote on Twitter.
Another statement was made by former Panamanian Ambassador in Washington Eloy Alfaro, who twitted, 'We are criticizing the Cuban doctors who may come to support us. And I wonder where the American doctors who support us are'
A strong message was sent over the weekend by the Panama Social Forum, which condemned the US interference because 'we are not a protectorate, a colony or an Associated State of the United States'.
The campaign against Cuba's international medical cooperation has been described as slanderous by Cuban authorities, who assure that it is the pretext to tighten the blockade against the Caribbean island amid the Covid-19 pandemic, while trying to divert public opinion's attention from the US Government's bad management of the health crisis.
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