Would you go to Cuba if you had cancer?

I personally wouldn't and my point is that if Hugo Chávez had come to America to get his care, he'd probably be still alive today. My understanding was that he had the opportunity of being treated at the Sírio-Libanês Hospital in Sao Paulo he would have increased his chance of survival.

That's what Brazil’s President, Dilma Rousseff, told a few of her colleagues — in private — that “the Venezuelan head of state was likely to die as a result of ‘his excessive paranoia rather than as a consequence of his serious — yet treatable — cancer.’”

If you look at the accepted list of the best cancers treatment centers in the world, the University of Texas, M D Anderson, is still at the top, followed by the Institut Gustave Roussy, in Paris, France, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in New York, the John Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore and the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota.

You won't see the Sírio-Libanês Hospital listed earlier nor any Cuban hospitals. A few thousand barrels of oil would have taken care of Chávez hospital bill and he'd still be around. This is another sad case of killer-dogma. If you're sick don't ever do that to yourself. Be more pragmatic than you can be dogmatic!