In a formal statement released today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba announced the withdrawal of its 277-strong medical brigade from Jamaica — and laid responsibility for the decision squarely at Washington’s door. The numbers behind that decision: 8.1 million patients treated, 90,000 lives saved, 25,000 Jamaicans who can see again. Now it’s over. And Washington is applauding.

On March 4, 2026, the Government of Jamaica communicated a quiet but seismic decision to the Cuban Embassy in Kingston: after five decades of medical partnership that has kept Jamaica’s most vulnerable citizens alive, the arrangement was finished.