By Benjamin Noria
HAVANA TIMES – Many professionals are leaving Cuba in search of a better life, and you can deduce that the brain drain is especially dangerous right now. A brain drain, or talent drain, is the loss of professionals and scientists with a university education who decide to emigrate to try their chances in another country.
It seems the Cuban Government has no concern about this mass exodus of professionals. This is clear because no visible strategy has been drawn up to hold onto this personnel.
Doctors’ wages haven’t gone up; working conditions haven’t improved; a transport system that ensures professionals can get to work hasn’t been created; a stimulus plan with trips to hotels, beaches and campsites for affordable prices hasn’t been created.
They are wasting resources training doctors, lawyers, and engineers in Cuba. The only thing they’re doing is exporting brilliant researchers and scientists to the United States, Europe and other Latin American countries.
The economic crisis is the major fac