Reuters, HAVANAA day after Bolivia suspended diplomatic relations with Cuba, Havana accused its interim government of having sought to sabotage bilateral ties ever since it took power last year, partly under pressure from US President Donald Trump’s administration. “It is not casual that the facts described here coincide with a brutal, politically motivated US campaign against the international medical cooperation Cuba provides to dozens of countries,” it said. US officials had, since the departure of Morales, “applied pressure on Bolivia to impose a deterioration in relations with Cuba,” the ministry said. Cuba terminated its medical mission to Bolivia in November, saying Bolivian officials were fostering violence against about 700 doctors by claiming they were instigating rebellion. Cuban foreign ministry denied this, saying on Saturday that from 2006 to 2012, Havana had actually covered all the costs of medical cooperation with Bolivia, at more than US$200 million per year.
