Photo: inkdrop/123rf Mexican president thanks Cuba for sending doctors to fight pandemic Hundreds of Cuban doctors will soon arrive in Mexico's capital, a senior Mexican health official said on Friday, part of a larger plan endorsed by leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to help local hospitals swamped by a COVID-19 surge. Cuba has exported doctors as a central part of its diplomatic efforts since its 1959 revolution. Its doctors were in the front lines in the fight against cholera in Haiti and ebola in West Africa in the 2010s. Cuba's critics in the United States say the doctors work under exploitative conditions and are used to support the Communist government's allies. Luis Antonio Ramirez, the head of Mexico's ISSSTE public network of hospitals, told local broadcaster Imagen Television late on Thursday that the influx of Cuban doctors will initially alleviate shortages at a hospital in southeastern Mexico City. [...]