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Ambassador\u00a0<\/span>Paul Hare<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the\u00a0<\/span>Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies<\/span>\u00a0at Boston University, was quoted in a Reuters article discussing Cuba’s medical diplomacy amid the global coronavirus pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n The article, titled “Cuba punches above weight with ‘white coat army’ during pandemic,” details Cuba’s practice of sending its doctors abroad to help tackle COVID-19. Cuba has sent its medical personnel to nearly 40 countries across five continents during the pandemic, continuing the island country’s medical diplomacy practice that has been common since 1959.<\/p>\n However, Cuba has not provided its doctors\u00a0 without cost, often times exchanging medical assistance for cash or goods. President Donald Trump has been critical of Cuba’s medical missions, a sentiment echoed by the Human Rights Watch and some conservative governments in South America. However, as Hare points out, the United States has been mostly alone regarding its feelings towards Cuba.<\/p>\n An excerpt:<\/p>\n Washington was \u201calmost totally isolated\u201d on its Cuba policy, said Paul Hare, a former British ambassador to the island who lectures at Boston University\u2019s Pardee School of Global Studies, while its \u201cAmerica First\u201d strategy contrasted unfavorably with Cuba\u2019s medical diplomacy.<\/p>\n Several Caribbean nations complained for example in April of U.S. customs blocking shipments of medical supplies to them even as the region was welcoming hundreds of Cuban doctors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The full article can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n [Update: This article was recirculated by\u00a0NBC News<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>on September 14, 2020]<\/strong><\/p>\n Ambassador Paul Hare<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>was a British diplomat for 30 years and the British ambassador to Cuba from 2001-04. He now teaches classes at Boston University on Diplomatic Practice, Arms Control, Intercultural Communication, and on Cuba in Transition. His novel, \u201cMoncada \u2014 A Cuban Story<\/em>,\u201d set in modern Cuba, was published in 2010. His book, \u201cMaking Diplomacy Work; Intelligent Innovation for the Modern World<\/em>\u201d was published in 2015. Learn more about him\u00a0<\/span>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ambassador Hare discusses Cuba’s medical diplomacy, a practice that has sent many of its doctors doctors abroad to combat the coronavirus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[11480,11523,11583,1837,8539,8540,9878],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47326,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45085\/revisions\/47326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}