In the face of public protests against the decrepit public healthcare system in Brazil, President Dilma Rousseff’s government has signed a deal to contract 4000 Cuban doctors to be deployed to places including the country’s most forlorn outposts. Cubans have always deployed its doctors in abundance to the world’s most inhospitable corners, and this signifies a win-win deal for both countries, as Brazil will pay the cash-starved Cuban government for each of its doctors. Read more here.