FILE PHOTO: Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a special session of the National Constituent Assembly to present his annual state of the nation in Caracas, Venezuela January 14, 2019. REUTERS/Manaure Quintero/File Photo
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela will receive 2,000 Cuban doctors who left Brazil following a dispute between the Communist-run island and the government of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who ordered an end to their stay after taking office this year.
Bolsonaro said some 11,000 doctors were being used as "slave labour" and demanded that the Cuban government, which took 75 percent of their salaries, allow them to be paid in full and have their families join them.
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