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Big Pay Raise For Cuban Doctors

Mike

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Granma published a sample of what the pay hikes, which take effect June 1, will look like. At the high end, doctors with two specialties will see their salary go from the equivalent of $26 a month to $67, while an entry-level nurse will make $25, up from $13.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101515322


Communism is just wonderful folks!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :roll:
 

Steve

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maybe the unions should take a boat over and get them an increase in their min wage.. :roll: :roll: :roll:

My wife works as a doctor. She was one of the first doctors to go to Venezuela to help Hugo Chávez with his socialist revolution. She earns 400 Cuban national pesos (£7.60) a month. That’s all we receive. She works six days a week, with one night shift included.

A pair of shoes is worth around 30 Cuban convertible pesos (£7.66). So if we need some shoes, how are we supposed to wash or eat or pay for electricity? Sure, we get basic rations every month, but they only last about 10 days.

Tienda, circa 2007, Photo by Arch Ritter

At the moment my son is in the United States. He’s a ballet dancer. He escaped there illegally after a tour in Mexico; on the last day, he just disappeared. Now he has a car, laptop, mobile phone and an apartment that he rents.

And here I am, 46 years old, never having owned my own car. Just think about it. I have a beautiful beach less than half an hour away from my house and I haven’t visited it for three years because I can’t afford the transport.

That is why there’s a clandestine economy going on in every household. Everyone is on the make, selling things on the side. I graduated as a lawyer and worked in a variety of government positions, but now I earn my living as an odd-job mechanic. If the inspectors found out, I’d get severely fined.
http://thecubaneconomy.com/articles/tag/living-standards/
 

canadian angus

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Been there and it is a great place and wonderful, proud people! We saw poor people proud of there small holdings, Doctors playing at night at resorts to have extra Cuban pesos. No greed there, small enterprise ventures and happy that they did well. Mike look internally and see if the West is better with it's greed!

CA
 
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