Cuban doctor defects in Brazil over pay, seeks asylum

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Cuban doctor defects in Brazil over pay, seeks asylum

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/cuban-doctor-defects-brazil-over-pay-seeks-asylum-225821054--finance.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/a2_V8NFiIpzhhpA4hqjjog--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-02-05T232402Z_1_CBREA141T0400_RTROPTP_2_BRAZIL-CUBA-DEFECTION.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Cuban doctor Ramona Rodriguez embraces an unidentified person in the office of the center-right Democratas Party in Brasilia" align="left" title="Cuban doctor Ramona Rodriguez embraces an unidentified person in the office of the center-right Democratas Party in Brasilia" border="0" /></a>A Cuban doctor working in Brazil sought asylum on Wednesday complaining that Cuba's communist government takes too big a slice of her pay, authorities said. Ramona Rodriguez, 51, sought refuge on Tuesday in the office of Ronaldo Caiado, leader of the center-right Democratas party in the lower chamber of Brazil's Congress, and slept the night on a sofa. She is one of 7,378 Cubans who are in Brazil as part of a program that hires foreign doctors to tend the sick in slums and remote rural locations where there are no Brazilian physicians. Under an agreement signed last year with Cuba through the Pan-American Health Organization, or PAHO, the Cubans get only one-fifth of the 10,000 reais ($4,100) a month that Brazil pays each physician in the program.</p><br clear="all"/>

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