But that’s the thing. How many Cuban doctors know how badly they’re being shafted for their services? This fascinating NYT story zeroes in on doctors who have been dispatched to other countries, like Brazil, to work and been amazed at the freedom and comparative luxury other doctors enjoy there. That’s a risky proposition for Castro, as showing his medical industry how much higher their standard of living would be in a free country naturally means many won’t want to come back. The reason the regime agrees to it is because it needs the money and receives big bucks for its "export." That’s where the Times piece comes in: Although Cuban doctors are making way, waaaaay more in Brazil than they’d make at home, they’re still getting royally screwed by the Cuban government, which receives three times as much per month from the Brazilian government as the doctors themselves do. "When you leave Cuba for the first time, you discover many things that you had been blind to," said one doctor to the paper. It turns out communism is de facto slavery. Who knew?