{"id":8395,"date":"2024-02-26T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=8395"},"modified":"2024-02-25T23:57:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T23:57:27","slug":"how-palestinians-are-becoming-doctors-in-cuba-for-free-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/how-palestinians-are-becoming-doctors-in-cuba-for-free-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How Palestinians Are Becoming Doctors in Cuba For Free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are the similarities between Cuba and Palestine? Cuba&#8217;s medical internationalism is world-renowned but especially in Palestine. One of the largest contingents at Cuba&#8217;s Latin American School of Medicine is from Palestine. BT&#8217;s Kei Pritsker spoke to Palestinian students at ELAM about why they admire Cuba&#8217;s medical solidarity so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"747\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JWe9IigF5SU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the similarities between Cuba and Palestine? Cuba&#8217;s medical internationalism is world-renowned but especially in Palestine. One of the largest contingents at Cuba&#8217;s Latin American School of Medicine is from Palestine. BT&#8217;s Kei Pritsker spoke to Palestinian students at ELAM about why they admire Cuba&#8217;s medical solidarity so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":8396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8355,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/how-palestinians-are-becoming-doctors-in-cuba-for-free\/","url_meta":{"origin":8395,"position":0},"title":"How Palestinians Are Becoming Doctors in Cuba For Free","author":"Editorial Team","date":"December 21, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Cuba's medical internationalism is world renowned but especially in Palestine. 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