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See: why importing Cuban doctors will flood Brazil with communist spies.

Brazilian magazine Editora Abril uses Cold War-era language to condemn the arrival of Cuban healthcare professionals in Brazil; "letting the Workers' Party control foreign policy leads to this," says reporter Nathalia Watkins; the anti-communist task force is reorganizing in Brazil.

See: why importing Cuban doctors will flood Brazil with communist spies.

247 - We're back in the Cold War. At least, that's what one can infer from the tone adopted by Veja magazine when commenting on the possible arrival of Cuban doctors in Brazil. In the index, the magazine makes its intentions clear, with the following headline: "Why the importation of Cuban doctors will flood Brazil with communist spies."

Internally, reporter Nathalia Watkins' text is equally compelling. "Letting the Workers' Party control foreign policy leads to this," she warns in the first line. The journalist asserts that the Brazilian government is forced to put national interests second and yield to the desires of the party's "madmen."

The reason for the controversy is the importation of 6 Cuban doctors, who will serve the Brazilian population in remote regions, in an agreement announced by Foreign Ministers Antonio Patriota and Bruno Rodríguez.

According to the report, the agreement will jeopardize patients' health, since Cuba supposedly has one of the worst healthcare systems in the world – a claim contradicted by infant mortality and life expectancy statistics.

But the funniest thing is the allegation that, behind the lab coats, there are communist spies disguised as health agents. According to Veja magazine, for every five doctors exported, one spy from the Castro regime goes along. Therefore, if six thousand doctors come to Brazil, there will also be 1,2 spies from the Cuban secret police.