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'''Operación Milagro''' (English: ''Operation Miracle''; also ''Misión Milagro in Venezuela'') is a program of international solidarity launched in 2004 by the governments of [[Cuba]] and [[Venezuela]] to provide free medical treatment for people with eye problems.<ref>[http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2014/07/01/mas-de-tres-millones-de-beneficiados-con-operacion-milagro-en-diez-anos/ "Más de tres millones de beneficiados con Operación Milagro en diez años"]. Cubadebate.</ref> It additionally provides the countries it operates in with new medical equipment and infrastructure.<ref>Kirk, John M. (2015). Healthcare without Borders: Understanding Cuban Medical Internationalism. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. pp. 96–117.</ref> By 2019, over 4 million people in 34 countries had received free treatment through the program.<ref>Yaffe, Helen (2020). [https://www.worldcat.org/title/1139710255 We are Cuba! : how a revolutionary people have survived in a post-Soviet world.] New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-300-24551-6. OCLC 1139710255.</ref> The program is integrated into the programs of the [[ALBA]].<ref name="Lamrani">Lamrani, Salim. “THE BOUVARIAN ALLIANCE FOR THE PEOPLES OF OUR AMERICA: THE CHALLENGES OF SOCIAL INTEGRATION.” ''International Journal of Cuban Studies'' 4, no. 3/4 (2012): 347–65.</ref> | |||
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While in the initial phase of the program | While in the initial phase of the program patients were transported to Cuba to be attended there, by 2017 there were 69 [[ophthalmological]] centers in 15 countries, carrying out vision-saving and restoring surgery.<ref name="Yaffe">Yaffe, Helen. “Cuban Medical Internationalism: An Army of White Coats.” In ''We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World'', 147–74. Yale University Press, 2020.</ref> | ||
==Origins== | |||
==Origins | |||
Vision impairment is a greater issue in the [[Global South]], as in 2015 ninety percent of all [[visually impaired]] people lived in the developing world. Latin America specifically struggles with a lack of access to healthcare and malnourishment, directly affecting the eyesight of millions in the region.<ref name="Public Health in Latin America">"Public Health in Latin America." In ''An Atlas and Survey of Latin American History'', by Michael LaRosa, and German R. Mejia. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2019.</ref> Eye surgeries can cost upwards of $10,000 in medical costs.<ref name="Lamrani" /> Issues regarding poor medical systems has led to many of the twentieth century Latin American revolutions addressing gaps in medicine.<ref name="Public Health in Latin America" /> Since the [[Cuban Revolution]], the government in Cuba has committed itself to advances in healthcare.<ref name="Public Health in Latin America" /> This includes internationalist missions to Latin America and Africa, which have been an aspect of Cuba’s foreign policy and relationship to the Global South during the twentieth century.<ref name="Blue">Blue, Sarah A. “Cuban Medical Internationalism: Domestic and International Impacts.” ''Journal of Latin American Geography'' 9, no. 1 (2010): 31–49.</ref> | Vision impairment is a greater issue in the [[Global South]], as in 2015 ninety percent of all [[visually impaired]] people lived in the developing world. Latin America specifically struggles with a lack of access to healthcare and malnourishment, directly affecting the eyesight of millions in the region.<ref name="Public Health in Latin America">"Public Health in Latin America." In ''An Atlas and Survey of Latin American History'', by Michael LaRosa, and German R. Mejia. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2019.</ref> Eye surgeries can cost upwards of $10,000 in medical costs.<ref name="Lamrani" /> Issues regarding poor medical systems has led to many of the twentieth century Latin American revolutions addressing gaps in medicine.<ref name="Public Health in Latin America" /> Since the [[Cuban Revolution]], the government in Cuba has committed itself to advances in healthcare.<ref name="Public Health in Latin America" /> This includes internationalist missions to Latin America and Africa, which have been an aspect of Cuba’s foreign policy and relationship to the Global South during the twentieth century.<ref name="Blue">Blue, Sarah A. “Cuban Medical Internationalism: Domestic and International Impacts.” ''Journal of Latin American Geography'' 9, no. 1 (2010): 31–49.</ref> | ||
In the post-Soviet world, [[Cuban medical internationalism]] has greatly expanded for both political recognition and economic incentive.<ref name="Blue" /> After [[Hugo Chávez]] became the [[President of Venezuela]] in 1998, Cuba and Venezuela began an organization in 2003 called the ALBA, economically and politically connecting [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] Latin American governments.<ref name="Lamrani" /> To combat illiteracy, the two governments created an initiative called “[[Yo, si puedo|Yo, sí puedo]],” or “Yes, I can.”<ref>Salim Lamrani, and Translated by Larry R. Oberg. “Fidel Castro, Hero of the Disinherited.” ''International Journal of Cuban Studies'' 8, no. 2 (2016): 151–68.</ref> However, the program reached a roadblock, as poor vision from a lack access to healthcare in Latin America hampered the ability to read. In 2004, the Cuban and Venezuelan governments then reached an agreement to create a new program to combat the issue of poor vision and blindness, known as ''Operación Milagro'', or Operation Miracle. | In the post-Soviet world, [[Cuban medical internationalism]] has greatly expanded for both political recognition and economic incentive.<ref name="Blue" /> After [[Hugo Chávez]] became the [[President of Venezuela]] in 1998, Cuba and Venezuela began an organization in 2003 called the ALBA, economically and politically connecting [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] Latin American governments.<ref name="Lamrani" /> To combat illiteracy, the two governments created an initiative called “[[Yo, si puedo|Yo, sí puedo]],” or “Yes, I can.”<ref>Salim Lamrani, and Translated by Larry R. Oberg. “Fidel Castro, Hero of the Disinherited.” ''International Journal of Cuban Studies'' 8, no. 2 (2016): 151–68.</ref> However, the program reached a roadblock, as poor vision from a lack access to healthcare in Latin America hampered the ability to read. In 2004, the Cuban and Venezuelan governments then reached an agreement to create a new program to combat the issue of poor vision and blindness, known as ''Operación Milagro'', or Operation Miracle. | ||
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