Cuba's aid programme in Bolivia

Though the facts are not widely reported around the world, Cuba supplies aid to a number of countries and one of the biggest aid schemes is in Bolivia

both women fiercely agree about the worth of what they are doing, attending without charge to the sight of thousands of poor Bolivians, who otherwise would not be able to see

"We get our salaries paid in Cuba, our food and lodging is paid here, and we get some pocket money,"

"Until I went from Cuba to Guatemala and Bolivia, I didn't know what real poverty was,"

The two surgeons are part of an ambitious medical and literacy programme here, and in many other countries around the world. It has brought the Cuban government immense benefits in terms of gratitude from beneficiaries and foreign governments alike

In a score of general hospitals built mainly with Venezuelan money over the past two years, 2,000 Cuban medical staff including 1,300 qualified doctors have been at work

200,000 operations in ophthalmological un