When Yosvani Bofill, a 26-year-old Cuban doctor, arrived in
Venezuela’s capital Caracas to take part in medical missions, he had one goal –
to desert the service and reach Bogota, across the border in Colombia. “Since I
left Cuba I had the idea of deserting. I used Venezuela as a launch pad to
emigrate. Ever since I saw the missions, I saw that it was the only way out for
a Cuban,” says Bofill, for whom his country is “a fenced island.” However, he
arrived late, just five days after then-US President Barack Obama suspended the
Cuban Medical Professional Parole, a special US visa program for Cuban medical
personnel who desert their missions abroad. More…
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