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Among those most likely to go: pro-American Foreign Minister Gregorio López Bravo, who was responsible for Spain's diplomatic recognition of East Germany and China, and Justice Minister Tomas Garicano Gofti, who evidently fell from favor when he ordered police not to use firearms during this year's May Day demonstrations. One policeman died in ambush, triggering a later protest by Spanish police...
Raimundo López, a Havana physician, was more interested in practicing medicine than politics. But once Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba, López found himself unable to separate the two. When he refused to join the Communist Party, he lost his job at Havana's Calixto Garcia Hospital. His position was further undermined when his wife's brother was killed as he sought asylum at a foreign embassy. Finally López applied for permission to leave Cuba, was allowed to emigrate in 1969, and after an eight-month stopover in Mexico, arrived...
...pez, now 52, is just one of more than 2,000 physicians who have fled the country since Castro's takeover. Most of them, like López, came to the U.S., where they were free to do almost anything-except be doctors. Stymied by state licensing laws affecting foreigners who are not trained in the U.S., many able Cuban physicians had to take jobs as waiters, elevator operators or, if they could overcome language barriers and prejudice, medical technicians. There is a way out of the Cuban doctors' dilemma, however, and López, like many...
What enabled López to prepare for the tough national exams is a University of Miami program that was established in 1961 especially for Cuban physicians. The twelve-week program is essentially a refresher course for those who have already practiced medicine in their own countries. Students are given six hours of medical instruction daily, bringing them up to date on the latest developments in preventive medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and basic sciences. The course also provides six hours of English instruction weekly; the exams are phrased only in English...
Last week, López, who had stayed on as army chief after giving up the presidency, effortlessly restored himself to power. Nobody was hurt in the takeover; Cruz was simply sent home, where he announced that he had known the coup was coming all along. As Honduras' new President for "not less than five years," López must contend this week with a threatened peasants' hunger march on the capital of Tegucigalpa. After that, he is expected to seek a conciliatory meeting with El Salvador's President Arturo Armando Molina...